Though age verification mandates claim to protect children, in practice they create harmful censorship and surveillance regimes that put everyone—adults and young people alike—at risk. Learn how to fight back at our new Age Verification Resource Center:
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Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub
Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive to...
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EFF obtained datasets representing more than 12 million searches logged by more than 3,900 agencies between 2024 and 2025. The data shows that agencies logged hundreds of searches related to the 50501, Hands Off, and No Kings protests, among other protests in between.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
How Cops Are Using Flock Safety's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters and Activists
Through an analysis of 10 months of nationwide searches on Flock Safety's servers, we discovered that more than 50 federal, state, and local a...
Fair use is not just an excuse to copy—it’s a pillar of online speech protection, and disregarding it in order to lash out at a critic should have serious consequences.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Fair Use is a Right. Ignoring It Has Consequences.
Fair use is not just an excuse to copy—it’s a pillar of online speech protection, and disregarding it in order to lash out at a critic should h...
“Do LinkedIn users understand how their data is getting used and what’s going to happen with it, and what protections they do and do not have under LinkedIn’s own terms of service?” EFF’s @npub1hdje...r2hp mused to Bloomberg Law. “I suspect they don’t.”
LinkedIn’s War Against Bot Scrapers Ramps Up as AI Gets Smarter
Together, recent cases involving the career-focused social media giant paint a portrait of an online data landscape being reshaped by technology, i...
From photo IDs and selfies to social security numbers and location information, data breaches hit a wide variety of companies this year.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Breachies 2025: The Worst, Weirdest, Most Impactful Data Breaches of the Year
Another year has come and gone, and with it, thousands of data breaches that affect millions of people. The question these days is less, Is my info...
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Drones are essentially flying police officers. “If I’m in my backyard, if I’m on my deck, do I expect that I have to encounter a law enforcement camera? I shouldn’t have to,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @npub1hgr7...2e7r.
The Texas Observer
Under Operation Lone Star, Texas State Police More than Doubled Their Drone Fleet
The Department of Public Safety has acquired an army of unmanned aerial vehicles—nearly as large as the U.S. Border Patrol's.
Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear t-shirts that say "Let's Sue the Government!"
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'Let's Sue the Government' T-Shirt
When privacy is at stake, we don’t stay quiet.EFF has filed suit against OPM and DOGE over unauthorized access to millions of government employee...
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We just finished Day 2 of our Ask Me Anything about the risks, harms, and legality of age verification mandates. We'll be back tomorrow (12/17) from 12-5pm PT. Join us! https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1pk5n1y/were_eff_and_were_fighting_to_defend_your_privacy/
Where users face threats to their privacy and security online, EFF’s technology tools are there to defend them.
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Tools from EFF's Tech Team
EFF’s team of technologists and computer scientists engineers solutions to the problems of sneaky tracking, inconsistent encryption, and more. Wh...