Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

November’s landmark opinion in Alasaad v. McAleenan was a culmination of EFF’s work explaining to the public and the courts that you don’t lose your rights when you go online or use digital tools.

EFF has long fought to end the FBI’s ability to impose gag orders via National Security Letters (NSLs). They violate the First Amendment and result in indefinite prohibitions on recipients’ ability to speak publicly about controversial government surveillance powers.

EFF’s new paper discusses corporate “third-party” tracking: the collection of personal information by companies that users don’t intend to interact with.

Governments are making unprecedented demands for online platforms to police speech. Many social media companies are rushing to comply, but in their response to these calls to remove objectionable content they too often censor valuable speech.

There is good reason to want to see a reinvigorated approach to competition in America, but it’s important to remember that competition is enabled or constrained not just by mergers and acquisitions. Companies can use a whole package of laws to attain and maintain dominance, to the detriment of the public interest.

EFF launched TOSsed Out, a new iteration for tracking and documenting the ways that Terms of Service (TOS) and other speech moderating rules are unevenly and unthinkingly applied to people.

Tech companies and online platforms have other ways to address the rapid spread of disinformation, including addressing the algorithmic “megaphone” at the heart of the problem and giving users control over their own feeds.

Ecuador should drop all charges against Ola Bini, and allow him to return home to his family and friends. Ecuador’s leaders undermine their country’s reputation abroad and the independence of its judicial system by this fanciful and unfounded prosecution.