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:

Electronic Frontier Foundation

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.

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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...