Publications

In the name of 'protecting kids online,' Congress pushed forward legislation this year that could have severely undermined our privacy and stifled free speech. These bills would have mandated invasive age-verification checks for everyone online—adult...

Britain’s military is struggling to recover its multi-million pound investment in an American-led stealth jet, Declassified has found. The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) ploughed $200 million into the F-35 warplane programme in the late 1990s. Official...

As England’s top football competition, the Premier League draws hundreds of millions of viewers from all over the world. Aside from the sportive stakes, the Premier League also has a vested interest in selling broadcast rights. These rights generate...

The UK has “nothing to fear from the ICC”, then prime minister Tony Blair wrote in a June 2002 letter released to the National Archives. At a time when the statute of the new International Criminal Court was about to enter into force, some Western of...

You might not know it, given the many headlines focused on new questions about copyright and Generative AI, but the year’s biggest copyright case concerned an old-for-the-internet question: do ISPs have to be copyright cops? After years of litigation...

Throughout 2025, EFF conducted groundbreaking investigations into Flock Safety's automated license plate reader (ALPR) network, revealing a system designed to enable mass surveillance and susceptible to grave abuses. Our research sparked state and fe...

This year, we fought back against the return of a terrible idea that hasn’t improved with age: site blocking laws. More than a decade ago, Congress tried to pass SOPA and PIPA—two sweeping bills that would have allowed the government and copyright h...

The UK government has issued new guidance to businesses outlining “opportunities” to export British arms to the country. The document, issued by the government’s trade department, notes: “There is a demand in Syria for UK defence, cyber and physical...

Drone as first responder (DFR) adoption really took off in 2025. Though the concept has been around since 2018, this year saw more normalization of the technology, its integration into more real-time crime center structures, and the implementation of...

EFF’s attorneys, activists, and technologists don’t just do the hard, endless work of defending our digital civil liberties — they also spend a lot of time and effort explaining that work to the public via media interviews. EFF had thousands of medi...