Publications

Introduction In the armed conflicts of today, shutting down the internet has become an increasingly common, deliberate, and systematic act of warfare. Across conflict zones, belligerent and warring parties attack telecommunications networks and ICT i...

A massive wave of public comments just told the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO): don’t shut the public out of patent review. EFF submitted its own formal comment opposing the USPTO’s proposed rules, and more than 4,000 supporters added their...

Earlier this year, an Israeli state-owned arms company released an advertisement for its newest generation of military drones. The advert showed two men driving a van through dense woodland before getting out to unload the cargo: an Apus 25 drone, ma...

The family of a British aid worker killed by Israel have made a fresh demand for the UK military to release its surveillance footage of Gaza from the day they died. James ‘Jim’ Henderson, a former Royal Marine commando, was killed in a drone strike o...

This blog also appears in our Age Verification Resource Hub: our one-stop shop for users seeking to understand what age-gating laws actually do, what’s at stake, how to protect yourself, and why EFF opposes all forms of age verification mandates. Hea...

Japan’s government has never been shy about expanding its “Cool Japan” campaign, in which manga and anime have become increasingly important export products. According to a new government-backed strategy, Japan aims to quadruple its overseas sales of...

The state of streaming is... bad. It’s very bad. The first step in wanting to watch anything is a web search: “Where can I stream X?” Then you have to scroll past an AI summary with no answers, and then scroll past the sponsored links. After that, yo...

“My brother endured 11 days of unspeakable horror before he was killed. My father walked the streets of Dublin for days hoping to bump into him. And all the time, the [British] authorities knew he wasn’t coming back. He was gone.” Moira Todd was spea...

Scores of protesters detained after the Palestine Action ban may have been arrested on false grounds, an internal Counter Terrorism Policing document obtained by Declassified suggests. The seven-page “tactics guidance”, dated 28 August, offers advic...

SAN FRANCISCO—With ill-advised and dangerous age verification laws proliferating across the United States and around the world, creating surveillance and censorship regimes that will be used to harm both youth and adults, the Electronic Frontier Foun...