Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

The Free Speech Protection Act is a long overdue tool to protect against the use of SLAPP lawsuits as legal weapons that benefit the wealthy and powerful.

This is part one of a series. Part two focuses on the legacy of Venezuela’s state surveillance.

With LGBTQI+ events facing harassment and persecution globally, EFF suggests some quick and easy steps to protect yourself physically and keep your data secure at in-person events.

Ahead of elections, India has issued new demands to X (Twitter) to remove accounts and posts critical of the government.

Signatories stress that the Convention should only move forward if it pursues a specific goal of combating cybercrime without endangering the human rights and fundamental freedoms of those it seeks to protect, nor undermining efforts to improve cybersecurity for an open internet.

EFF will continue to advocate for affordable, future-proof internet access for all, and for an end of the use of artificial intelligence and automated systems for policing and surveillance.

Keyword warrants that let police indiscriminately sift through search engine databases are unconstitutional dragnets that target free speech, lack particularity and probable cause, and violate the privacy of countless innocent people.

In this report, EFF explores a new approach to tackling online harms leaving behind strategies based on ill-conceived bills and censorship-driven solutions.