Publications

It’s been a wild year. For the first time in British history, a direct-action group was branded as a terrorist organisation. Meanwhile, the Gaza genocide passed the two-year mark, and UK-made fighter jet components that could end up in Israeli warpl...

Each December we take a moment to publish a series of blog posts that look back at the things we’ve accomplishes in fighting for your rights and privacy the past 12 months. But this year I’ve been thinking not just about the past 12 months, but also...

The US legal profession was just one of the pillars of American democracy that was targeted in the early days of the second Trump administration. At EFF, we were proud to publicly and loudly support the legal profession and, most importantly, continu...

In 2024, EFF wrote our initial blog about what could go wrong when police let AI write police reports. Since then, the technology has proliferated at a disturbing rate. Why? The most popular generative AI tool for writing police reports is Axon’s Dra...

The world has been forced to bear the weight of billionaires and politicians who salivate over making tech more invasive, more controlling, and more hostile. That's why EFF’s mission for your digital rights is crucial, and why your support matters mo...

Anna’s Archive is generally known as a meta-search engine for shadow libraries, helping users find pirated books and other related resources. However, its archival ambitions don’t stop at text. This weekend, the site announced that it had successfull...

YouTube downloaders and other nifty tools are seen as a major piracy threat by the music industry. To curb this trend, music companies have taken legal action against various stream-ripping services. This includes Yout.com, which is operated by the A...

Despite the declared end of the war on the Gaza Strip under the agreement signed in October 2025, thousands of Palestinians continue to live in a state of forced displacement. They are unable to return to homes or land which now lie beyond what is kn...

There are only a few torrent sites still alive today that can boast more than 20 years online, yet only two – The Pirate Bay and RuTracker – have managed that feat under perpetual public scrutiny. A little younger than its Swedish counterpart and o...

Fifteen years ago, Google processed 250,000 takedown notices in a single year. The takedown counter for 2025 has already exceeded five billion. This figure isn’t just hard to fathom; it represents an explosion in removal requests. The all-time ten...