Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

EFF prepared a transition memo for the incoming Biden administration, outlining their recommendations for how it should act to protect everyone’s civil liberties in a digital world.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency finalized its Fair Access to Financial Services rule, which will prevent banks from refusing to serve entire classes of customers that they find politically or morally unsavory.

Learn more about how the police evades the Fourth Amendment’s requirement to obtain a warrant.

Private companies have strong legal rights under U.S. law to refuse to host or support speech they don’t like. But that refusal carries different risks when a group of companies comes together to ensure that certain speech or speakers are effectively taken offline altogether.

EFF submitted comments to the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) opposing the agency’s proposal for new regulations of cryptocurrency transactions.

In December, Solano Superior Court Judge Bradley Nelson upheld the gift of surveillance accountability that the California State legislature had provided state residents when they passed 2015’s Senate Bill 741 (Cal. Govt. Code § 53166).

Location tracking apps. Spyware to enforce quarantine. Immunity passports. Throughout 2020, governments around the world deployed invasive surveillance technologies to contain the COVID-19 outbreak.

Even though it’s only 26 words long, Section 230 doesn’t say what many think it does. EFF explains what, exactly, people are getting wrong about the primary law that defends the Internet.