Publications

The San Francisco Police Department is the latest California law enforcement agency to get caught sharing automated license plate reader (ALPR) data with out-of-state and federal agencies. EFF and the ACLU of Northern California are calling them out...

It's been a year full of challenges, but also important victories for digital freedoms. From EFF’s new lawsuit against OPM and DOGE, to launching Rayhunter (our new tool to detect cellular spying), to exposing the censorship of abortion-related conte...

As the 2025–2026 academic year begins, students across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are returning to classrooms with sharpened pencils, blank copybooks, and renewed hopes — although not everyone in the region has that chance. In Gaza, wher...

When Italy passed new anti-piracy legislation in the summer of 2023, football fans were warned that anyone involved in the supply, sale or consumption of illicit IPTV streams should consider themselves a target for enforcement. IPSOS research had pre...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Jury trials of journalists arrested while reporting news are exceedingly rare in the United States. The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, a project of Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) that maintains data on press freedom violati...

It's easy to keep up with the fight for digital privacy and free expression. Our EFFector newsletter delivers bite-sized updates, stories, and actions you can take to stay informed and help out. In this latest issue, we show how libraries and schools...

This posted was drafted by EFF legal intern Alexandra Halbeck The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers California and most of the Western U.S., just delivered good news for digital privacy: abandoning a phone doesn’t abandon your Four...

Español The Mexican government passed a package of outrageously privacy-invasive laws in July that gives both civil and military law enforcement forces access to troves of personal data and forces every individual to turn over biometric information...

BY RINDALA ALAJAJI | September 17, 2025 This is the second instalment in a ten-part blog series documenting EFF's findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here. During our Stop Censoring Abortion campaign, we...

I write these lines carrying the weight of repeated displacement, the pain of an incomplete return, and the memory of a home whose joy we never fully reclaimed. My journey from northern Gaza to Al-Mawasi in Khan Younis was not merely a geographical m...