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Sep 23, 2024 | eff.org | Hudson Hongo

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, and TechFreedom urged the Supreme Court today to strike down HB 1181, a Texas law that unconstitutionally restricts adults’ access to sexual content online by requiring them to verify their age.

Jun 27, 2024 | eff.org | Hudson Hongo

For the past year, EFF has been sounding the alarm about police in California illegally sharing drivers' location data with anti-abortion states, putting abortion seekers and providers at risk of prosecution. We thus applaud the Sacramento County Grand Jury for hearing this call and investigating two police agencies that had been unlawfully sharing this data out-of-state.

Jun 5, 2024 | eff.org | David Greene |Hudson Hongo

As we put it in a blog post last month, no single country should be able to restrict speech across the entire internet. That's why EFF celebrates the news that Australia's eSafety Commissioner is dropping its legal effort to have content on X, the website formerly known as Twitter, taken down across the globe. This development comes just days after EFF and FIRE were granted official intervener status in the case.

Mar 19, 2024 | techdirt.com | Hudson Hongo |David Greene

With strong bipartisan support, the U.S. House voted 352 to 65 to pass HR 7521 last week, a bill that would ban TikTok nationwide if its Chinese owner doesn’t sell the popular video app. The TikTok bill’s future in the U.S. Senate isn’t yet clear, but President Joe Biden has said he would sign it into law if it reaches his desk. The speed at which lawmakers have moved to advance a bill with such a significant impact on speech is alarming.

Mar 12, 2024 | eff.org | Hudson Hongo

LAS VEGAS — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of partners urged a federal court to protect default encrypted messaging and children’s privacy and security in a brief filed today.