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Why Are Hundreds of Data Brokers Not Registering with States? Hundreds of data brokers have not registered with state consumer protection agencies. A new analysis by Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reveals that man...

Why Aren't Hundreds of Data Brokers Registering with States?

A new analysis of 750 data brokers reveals that many data brokers that registered in one state aren’t registered in others

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Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/

The TAKE IT DOWN Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims That Will Lead to Censorship Congress has begun debating the TAKE IT DOWN Act (S. 146), a bill that seeks to speed up the removal of a troubling type of online content: non-consensual intimate imagery, or NCII. In recent years, c...

Thanks! We also published a deeper look at the speech and encryption problems with this bill yesterday:

My colleagues are the best.

The Supreme Court will hear another digital speech case this week that will determine whether we will continue to have an anonymous internet or whether our speech and privacy will be jeopardized by state lawmakers across the country.

If the goal of the TikTok ban is to send a message to China, what this law really says is that our people easily succumb to Chinese influence and the U.S. government is terrified of China's ability to dupe us all.

And even worse, I only heard Justice Gorsuch call out the government's position as casting everyone as being so helpless as to require the government's paternalism.

Post-TikTok argument, I continue to be disturbed at how infantilizing the law and government arguments in support of it are. The government thinks so little of us and other institutions (a free press for one) that it has to ban an entire social media service.

EFF Continued to Champion Users’ Online Speech and Fought Efforts to Curtail It: 2024 in Review People’s ability to speak online, share ideas, and advocate for change are enabled by the countless online services that host everyone’s views.Despite the central role these online services play in ou...

Lawmakers and courts spent 2024 trying to undermine Section 230 - a key law that enables internet users’ speech. EFF fought back.

Victory! EFF Helps Resist Unlawful Warrant and Gag Order Issued to Over the past month, the independent news outlet Indybay has quietly fought off an unlawful search warrant and gag order served by the San Francisco Police Department. Today, a court lifted the gag

EFF has helped the San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center (commonly known as @indybay.bsky.social) fight off an unlawful search warrant and gag order served by the San Francisco Police Department - a victory for press freedom.