Publications

In the spring of 2012, Google formally launched its Copyright Transparency Report, sharing details on all copyright-related removal requests, including the targeted links and their senders. In the years that followed, the number of reported URLs in...

A searchable public database known as the Police Records Access Project has made public for the first time more than 1.5 million pages of previously secret records about the use of force and misconduct by California police officers. The California Re...

Atlanta-based journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for nearly 100 days and is facing imminent deportation from the United States. His crime? Doing his job. Guevara was detained first by local police and then by Immigration and Customs Enforceme...

BY LISA FEMIA | September 24, 2025 This is the fifth installment in a blog series documenting EFF's findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here. When the team at Women Help Women signed into Instagram last...

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_This is Part I of a two-part series on EFF’s comments to the International Criminal Court Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) about its draft policy on cyber-enabled crimes. _As human rights atrocities around the world unfold in the digital age, genoci...

Parliament has been accused of an “outrageous abuse” that is “worthy of the Trump White House”, after blocking Declassified from holding a media pass. Internal emails reveal that officials cited our “in-depth investigations… from a particular standpo...

For top-tier football clubs around Europe, the start of a new season means the resumption of match-day anti-piracy measures and a prime opportunity to remind errant fans that piracy isn’t risk-free. Warnings usually appear in the media, often timed...

BY KENYATTA THOMAS | September 22, 2025 This is the fourth installment in a blog series documenting EFF's findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here. One of the goals of our Stop Censoring Abortion campaig...

One of the reasons we opposed the TikTok "ban" is that the First Amendment is supposed to protect us from government using its power to manipulate speech. But as predicted, the TikTok "ban" has only resulted in turning over the platform to the allies...