Publications

Anna’s Archive is a meta-search engine for shadow libraries that allows users to find pirated books and other related resources. In late 2023, the search engine Anna’s Archive expanded its offering by making data from OCLC’s proprietary WorldCat data...

Without assurances that hosts, domain registries, registrars, DNS providers, and consumer ISPs would not be immediately held liable for internet users’ activities, investing in the growth of the early internet may have proven less attractive. Of co...

In 2018, when former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found unconscious in Salisbury after being poisoned in an assassination attempt attributed to Moscow, the UK government reacted with swift and decisive action. It expelled Russian...

Sorry, EFF doesn't hand out candy like the Easter Bunny, but we are here to keep you updated on the latest digital rights news with our EFFector newsletter! This edition of EFFector explains how you can help us push back against the TAKE IT DOWN Act,...

With an estimated 240 million visits during the first three months of the year, Nhentai is one of the most trafficked websites online today. The site serves adult-oriented anime and manga, also known as hentai. These spicy Japanese comics are popular...

As debate heats up in the United States over proposed site-blocking legislation, opinions of what that might mean in practice are already beginning to emerge. Introduced by Rep. Zoe Lofgren late January, the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (FADPA) at...

Español Your location data isn't just a pin on a map—it's a powerful tool that reveals far more than most people realize. It can expose where you work, where you pray, who you spend time with, and, sometimes dangerously, where you seek healthcare....

Español EFF has filed an amicus brief in Kadrey v. Meta, one of the many ongoing copyright lawsuits against AI developers. Most of the AI copyright cases raise an important new issue: whether the copying necessary to train a generative AI model is...

Tech companies are racing to build the most powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) but how these systems are trained is now mired in controversy. Many major tech firms allegedly used huge amounts of copyrighted material to train their AI, without obta...

A few days after Christmas, while Bulgaria was carpeted in snow, the bodies of three Egyptian boys were found by human rights defenders that I was volunteering with. Seifalla Elbeltagy, 15, Ahmed Samra, 16, and Ahmed Elawdan, 17, all died of hypothe...