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Event | February 13, 2025

EFF Speakeasy: Mesa

Join EFF staff and local online rights supporters for a Speakeasy meetup on Thursday, February 13 in Mesa! EFF staff will be in town for CactusCon. Raise a glass and discover EFF's latest work defending digital freedoms online. This event is a free, casual gathering to...

Event | January 16, 2025

From Free Speech Regulation to Deportation: The Internet, Trump's Targets and Project 2025

ACLU California Action, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Oakland Privacy, TransFamily Support Services, and TransLatin@ Coalition will host this event.About the Event: As California begins a new legislative session, we must think about how digital speech proposals really affect youth and intersect with reproductive choice, LGBTQI, and immigrants’ rights issues. This briefing...

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Pen-Link v. County of San Joaquin Sheriff’s Office

As part of EFF’s transparency mission, we sent public records requests to California law enforcement agencies—including the San Joaquin Sheriff’s Office—seeking information about law enforcements’ use of technology sold by two companies: Pen-Link and its subsidiary, Cobwebs Technologies. We went to court to make sure the public gets access to...
Deeplinks Blog by Jason Kelley | January 13, 2025

Five Things to Know about the Supreme Court Case on Texas’ Age Verification Law, Free Speech Coalition v Paxton

Texas’ age verification law robs internet users of anonymity, exposes them to privacy and security risks, and blocks some adults entirely from accessing sexual content that’s protected under the First Amendment. Age-verification laws like this one reach into fully every U.S. adult household. We look forward to the court striking...
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Deeplinks Blog by Jillian C. York, Paige Collings, David Greene | January 9, 2025

Meta’s New Content Policy Will Harm Vulnerable Users. If It Really Valued Free Speech, It Would Make These Changes

Earlier this week, when Meta announced changes to their content moderation processes, we were hopeful that some of those changes—which we will address in more detail in this post—would enable greater freedom of expression on the company’s platforms, something for which we have advocated for many years....

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Deeplinks Blog by Lena Cohen | January 6, 2025

Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry—Here’s How

Each time you see a targeted ad, your personal information is exposed to thousands of advertisers and data brokers through a process called “real-time bidding” (RTB). This process does more than deliver ads—it fuels government surveillance, poses national security risks, and gives data brokers easy access to your online activity...

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