If you’re confused about the difference between “age verification,” “age estimation,” “age assurance,” and “age gate” — you’re not alone. Let’s help you make sense of it all.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Age Verification, Estimation, Assurance, Oh My! A Guide to the Terminology

Age verification, age assurance, age estimation, age gating—they get thrown around interchangeably, but they technically mean different things. A...

What creepy nonsense are companies up to when they have to guess your age or take your ID for AV?

Electronic Frontier Foundation

So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now?

EFF is against age gating and age verification mandates, and we hope we’ll win in getting existing ones overturned and new ones prevented. But ma...

ICE surveillance sweeps up activists, organizers, journalists, family members, and entire communities. When the government buys access to location data and online histories, everyone’s rights are at risk.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree

We need to have a hard look at the surveillance industry. It is a key enabler of vast and untold violations of human rights and civil liberties, an...

Next week 🪩 Join EFF's Lena Cohen at DistrictCon for a discussion on "How a Handful of Location Data Brokers Actively Track Millions, and How to Stop Them."

Electronic Frontier Foundation

EFF at DistrictCon

EFF is excited to be participating in DistrictCon for the first time! Join EFF Staff Technologist Lena Cohen at the Policy Roundtable for a discuss...

Want to know how companies are guessing your age? Read all about it in our guide to age assurance technology.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now?

EFF is against age gating and age verification mandates, and we hope we’ll win in getting existing ones overturned and new ones prevented. But ma...

Even though there’s no way to implement mandated age gates online AND fully protect speech and privacy rights, we want to help you minimize the danger you face when you encounter one:

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Age Verification Is Coming For the Internet. We Built You a Resource Hub to Fight Back.

Age verification laws are proliferating fast across the United States and around the world, creating a dangerous and confusing tangle of rules abou...

Wondering if you should continue to use services that require age verification of some kind? Read more about gauging the risk to your personal info:

Electronic Frontier Foundation

So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now?

EFF is against age gating and age verification mandates, and we hope we’ll win in getting existing ones overturned and new ones prevented. But ma...

Bloquear el teléfono, prestar atención a lo que se lleva puesto e idear planes para comunicarse con los demás son medidas clave que hay que tomar antes de asistir a una protesta.

Asistir a una protesta

Para una consulta rápida, hemos creado una práctica guía diseñada para imprimirla, doblarla y llevarla en el bolsillo (descargala en PDF). Aho...

Searching a reporter’s home and seizing reporting materials is an extreme form of press intimidation. EFF joins press freedom groups in condemning the FBI’s search of a Washington Post reporter’s home.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

EFF Condemns FBI Search of Washington Post Reporter’s Home

Government invasion of a reporter’s home, and seizure of journalistic materials, is exactly the kind of abuse of power the First Amendment is des...

Companies like Flock Safety “want police to collect as much information on everyone as possible because they make money off that,” EFF’s Dave Maass told New Mexico’s KOB4. “We continually find people abusing the data.”

KOB.com

4 Investigates: The push to regulate New Mexico’s mass surveillance tools

Some lawmakers and advocates would like to see regulations on automated license plate readers appear during this year's legislative session.