Publications

Español When a technology can have a conversation with you, it’s natural to anthropomorphize that technology—to see it as a person. It’s tempting to see a chatbot as a thinking, speaking robot, but this gives the technology too much credit. This ca...

Movie studio Voltage Pictures has targeted alleged movie pirates in court for well over a decade. The company and its subsidiaries filed numerous lawsuits against internet subscribers in the United States, Australia, and Europe, using various strateg...

When the Liberal Democrat MP Wera Hobhouse was denied entry to Hong Kong in April, British journalists dusted off their usual line on the territory. Hong Kong used to be British, which means free, democratic and good, the trope goes. Now, it’s becomi...

Español Of the many principles EFF fights for in consumer data privacy legislation, one of the most basic is a right to access the data companies have about you. It’s only fair. So many companies collect information about us without our knowledge o...

Companies large and small are doubling down on digital rights, and we’re excited to see more and more of them join EFF. We’re first and always an organization who fights for users, so you might be asking: Why does EFF work with corporate donors, and...

It’s time for EFF’s annual journey to Las Vegas for the summer security conferences: BSidesLV, Black Hat USA, and DEF CON. Our lawyers, activists, and technologists are always excited to support this community of security researchers and tinkerers—th...

In 2012, America missed a golden opportunity to show the world how site blocking and other internet restrictions could be deployed at scale to protect rightsholders’ revenues. Vast opposition led to the SOPA bill being withdrawn but elsewhere, site...

Rightsholders call them illicit streaming devices, others prefer the catch-all term pirate boxes. Millions are happy with Firesticks, a name so well known that in some cases it’s used to describe other devices, regardless of manufacturer. But of al...

Dear Friend of Press Freedom, It’s been 129 days that Rümeysa Öztürk is facing deportation by the United States government for writing an op-ed it didn’t like, and the 47th day that Mario Guevara has been imprisoned for covering a protest. Read on fo...

Traditional site-blocking measures that require local ISPs to block subscriber access to popular pirate sites are in common use around the world. Note: this article was updated to add that Open Library does not appear to be actively blocked. More det...