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Join EFF Lists Copyright (CC BY) Trademark Privacy Policy Thanks Electronic Frontier Foundation Donate Electronic Frontier Foundation About Contact Press People Opportunities Issues Free Speech Privacy Creativity and Innovation Transparency International Security Our Work Deeplinks Blog Press Releases Events Legal Cases Whitepapers Take Action Action Center Electronic Frontier Alliance Volunteer Tools Privacy Badger HTTPS Everywhere Surveillance Self-Defense Certbot Panopticlick Donate Donate to EFF Shop Other Ways to Give Membership FAQ Search form Search The leading nonprofit defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation. Donate The leading nonprofit defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation. FEATURED UPDATE Protecting Civil Liberties During a Public Health Crisis Across the world, public health authorities are working to contain the spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019). In pursuit of this urgent and necessary task, many government agencies are collecting and analyzing personal information about large numbers of identifiable people, including their health, travel, and personal relationships. As our society struggles with how best to minimize the spread of this disease, we must carefully consider the way that “big data” containment tools impact our digital liberties. Special efforts by public... FEATURED UPDATE Coalition Asks California's Governor Newsom to Support Fiber Broadband for All The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently joined several California-based ISPs, tech companies, non-profits, and local governments to commend Governor Newsom for adopting a “Broadband for All” vision. But simply saying “broadband” without a clear eye towards the future risks having government policies adopt infrastructure plans that work in the short run, but fall woefully behind as the demand for data continues to increase. In order to ensure California’s Broadband for All plan is future-proofed, the coalition asked the Governor to focus... FEATURED UPDATE The EARN IT Bill Is the Government’s Plan to Scan Every Message Online Imagine an Internet where the law required every message sent to be read by government-approved scanning software. Companies that handle such messages wouldn’t be allowed to securely encrypt them, or they’d lose legal protections that allow them to operate. Take Action Stop the Graham-Blumenthal Attack on Encryption That’s what the Senate Judiciary Committee has proposed and hopes to pass into law. The so-called EARN IT bill , sponsored by Senators Lindsay Graham (R-SC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), will strip Section... Join Our Newsletter! Email updates on news, actions, and events in your area. Email Address Postal Code (optional) Anti-spam question: Enter the three-letter abbreviation for Electronic Frontier Foundation : Don't fill out this field (required) Thanks, you're awesome! Please check your email for a confirmation link. Oops something is broken right now, please try again later. Banner Graphic: RESOURCE Certbot 1.0 Banner Graphic: Browser Add-on Privacy Badger Banner Graphic: Resource Surveillance Self-Defense The Latest Deeplinks Blog by Dave Maass , Matthew Guariglia , Aaron Mackey , Naomi Gilens , Saira Hussain , Caitlyn Crites | March 15, 2020 The Foilies 2020 Recognizing the year’s worst in government transparency “The Ringer,” the first track on Eminem’s 2018 album, Kamikaze , includes a line that piqued Buzzfeed reporter Jason Leopold’s curiosity: the rapper claimed the Secret Service visited him due to some controversial lyrics about Ivanka Trump. To find out if it was true... Deeplinks Blog by Karen Gullo | March 13, 2020 Court Orders Hearing in Uniloc’s Patent Case Against Apple to be Conducted by Phone, Citing COVID-19 Risks The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, citing public health efforts to mitigate the risks of COVID-19 transmission, ordered that an April hearing in the Uniloc v. Apple patent case be conducted by phone rather than in person and denied EFF’s request to allow the public... Deeplinks Blog by Veridiana Alimonti | March 13, 2020 New ¿Where Is My Data? Report: Five Years of Holding ISPs Accountable in Colombia Five years have passed since Colombian digital rights NGO Fundación Karisma launched its first annual ¿Dónde Están Mis Datos? assessing telecommunication companies’ commitment to transparency and user privacy. Since then, we’ve seen major telecom companies providing more transparency about how and when they divulge their users’ data to the... Deeplinks Blog by Jillian C. York | March 13, 2020 Speaking Freely: An Interview With Ada Palmer Ada Palmer is a Renaissance historian whose work lies at the intersection of ideas and historical change. She is currently on research leave from the University of Chicago, where she teaches early modern European history. In this interview, we talk about censorship during the Inquisition, and how that parallels to... Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | March 12, 2020 New York State Legislator Introduces a Very Bad “Net Neutrality” Bill In 2018, California established the gold standard of what states should be doing on net neutrality by passing a model law for other states to copy. So, naturally, that makes the job of any legislator truly interested in protecting net neutrality pretty easy: just copy and paste. But that... Deeplinks Blog by Joe Mullin | March 12, 2020 The EARN IT Bill Is the Government’s Plan to Scan Every Message Online Imagine an Internet where the law required every message sent to be read by government-approved scanning software. Companies that handle such messages wouldn’t be allowed to securely encrypt them, or they’d lose legal protections that allow them to operate. Take Action Stop the Graham-Blumenthal Attack on Encryption That’s... Deeplinks Blog by Jennifer Lynch | March 11, 2020 Police May Not Need a Warrant to Rummage Through Your Trash, But Warrantless Collection of DNA Is Unconstitutional This week, we filed an amicus brief in a South Dakota case arguing that the Fourth Amendment prohibits the police from surreptitiously collecting our DNA without a warrant. This case is one of the first to challenge the collection of DNA from a free person after results of... Deeplinks Blog by Elliot Harmon | March 10, 2020 The Graham-Blumenthal Bill Is an Attack on Online Speech and Security Members of Congress have mounted a major threat to your freedom of speech and privacy online. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) recently introduced a bill that would undermine key protections for Internet speech in U.S. law. It would also expose providers of the private messaging services we... Deeplinks Blog by rainey Reitman | March 10, 2020 FAQ about the Tech Projects Director Role We're hiring a new Director of Technology Projects . That's the team at EFF that develops and maintains Privacy Badger , HTTPS Everywhere , the Certbot client for Let's Encrypt , and Panopticlick , as well as housing our Threat Lab research group. On top of building and... Deeplinks Blog by Ernesto Falcon | March 10, 2020 Coalition Asks California's Governor Newsom to Support Fiber Broadband for All The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently joined several California-based ISPs, tech companies, non-profits, and local governments to commend Governor Newsom for adopting a “Broadband for All” vision. But simply saying “broadband” without a clear eye towards the future risks having government policies adopt infra...