We saw some great wins and steps forward in state legislatures this year. We also fought some troubling trends.
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States Take On Tough Tech Policy Battles: 2025 in Review
State legislatures—from Olympia, WA, to Honolulu, HI, to Tallahassee, FL, and everywhere in between—kept EFF’s state legislative team busy th...
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The issue of online safety is not solved through technology alone, and young people deserve a more intentional approach to protecting their safety and privacy online—not the lazy age verification strategies we’ve seen implemented this year that cause more harm than they solve.
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Age Verification Threats Across the Globe: 2025 in Review
Age verification mandates won't magically keep young people safer online, but that has not stopped governments around the world spending 2025 ...
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Utah and California are the first states to step up to regulate how police use AI to write their reports. Who will be next?
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AI Police Reports: Year In Review
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 ...
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Join EFF's Rindala Alajaji and Alexis Hancock along with Hana Memon from Gen-Z for Change and Cynthia Conti-Cook from Collaborative Research Center for Resilience for our next EFFecting Change stream about what we stand to lose as more governments push to age-gate the web.
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EFFecting Change: The Human Cost of Online Age Verification
This event has passed. You can watch the recording on YouTube or the Internet Archive.Age verification mandates are spreading fast, and they’re u...
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