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EFF Sues DHS and ICE For Records on Subpoenas Seeking to Unmask Online Critics
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-sues-dhs-and-ice-records-subpoenas-seeking-unmask-online-critics-0
Published: April 22, 2026 15:51
SAN FRANCISCO – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) today demanding public records about their use of administrative subpoenas to try to identify their online…
EFF to State AGs: Investigate Google's Broken Promise to Users Targeted by the Government
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-state-ags-investigate-googles-broken-promise-users-targeted-government
Published: April 14, 2026 16:00
SAN FRANCISCO – The Electronic Frontier Foundation sent complaints today to the attorneys general of California and New York urging them to investigate Google for deceptive trade practices, related to the company's broken promise to give users prior notice…
US Tech Companies Must be Accountable in US Courts for Facilitating Persecution and Torture Abroad, EFF Urges US Supreme Court
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/us-tech-companies-must-be-accountable-us-courts-facilitating-persecution-and-torture
Published: March 27, 2026 22:07
SAN FRANCISCO – U.S. technology companies should be legally accountable in U.S. courts for building tools that purposefully and actively facilitate human rights abuses by foreign governments, the Electronic Frontier Foundation argued in a brief filed…
EFF Sues for Answers About Medicare's AI Experiment
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-sues-answers-about-medicares-ai-experiment
Published: March 25, 2026 17:20
SAN FRANCISCO – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) seeking records about a multi-state program that is using AI to evaluate requests…
Nicole Ozer Named as Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Executive Director
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/nicole-ozer-named-electronic-frontier-foundations-executive-director
Published: March 24, 2026 21:00
SAN FRANCISCO – Nicole Ozer has been appointed as executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation effective June 1.Â
Ozer is a legal expert on privacy and surveillance, artificial intelligence, and digital speech. She currently serves as the…
EFF to Supreme Court: Shut Down Unconstitutional Geofence Searches
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-supreme-court-shut-down-unconstitutional-geofence-searches
Published: March 3, 2026 15:54
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Virginia, and the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law filed a brief Monday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that invasive…
National Book Tour for Cindy Cohn’s Memoir, ‘Privacy’s Defender’
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/national-book-tour-cindy-cohns-memoir-privacys-defender
Published: March 2, 2026 16:15
SAN FRANCISCO – Electronic Frontier Foundation Executive Director Cindy Cohn will launch her memoir, Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance (MIT Press, March 10), with events in San Francisco and Berkeley before embarking on…
New Report Helps Journalists Dig Deeper Into Police Surveillance Technology
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/new-report-helps-journalists-dig-deeper-police-surveillance-technology
Published: February 17, 2026 17:56
SAN FRANCISCO — A new report released today offers journalists tips on cutting through the sales hype about police surveillance technology and report accurately on costs, benefits, privacy, and accountability as these invasive and often ineffective tools…
Coalition Urges California to Revoke Permits for Federal License Plate Reader Surveillance
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/coalition-urges-california-revoke-permits-federal-license-plate-reader-surveillance
Published: February 10, 2026 17:41
SAN FRANCISCO – California must revoke permits allowing federal agencies such as Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to put automated license plate readers along border highways, a coalition led by the Electronic…
EFF Calls on Tech Companies to 'Encrypt It Already!'
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-calls-tech-companies-encrypt-it-already
Published: January 30, 2026 02:00
SAN FRANCISCO – Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) launched "Encrypt It Already," a campaign pushing six tech companies to better protect their users’ privacy through end-to-encryption.
The privacy-defending nonprofit recently contacted Meta,…