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The NO FAKES Act is “still rife with problems,” EFF’s @cmcsherr told Bloomberg Law. The penalty for false notices “lacks teeth,” and the bill remains “a recipe for over-broad enforcement that will sweep up all kinds of lawful content.” https://news.bloomberglaw.com/artificial-intelligence/youtube-others-struggle-to-fight-deepfakes-as-law-lags-behind

Police using face recognition technology are prioritizing low-level crimes over privacy rights, EFF’s Beryl Lipton told The Nevada Independent. We don't want a society "where we expect that just because we went into public, a police officer is going to get to know… or be able to search that in real time." https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/sparks-is-using-facial-recognition-to-fight-shoplifting-is-the-tech-going-too-far

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California’s AB1709 is “an over-broad and unconstitutional restriction on young people’s right to speak and to access information online,” EFF’s @aaronmackey testified. “It also violates all adult internet users’ First Amendment rights.” https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la/politics/2026/05/13/social-media-legislation-kids-students

Meta took a major wrong turn on privacy by giving up on end-to-end encryption on Instagram. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/broken-promises-rip-instagrams-end-end-encrypted-dms

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Detained in 2020 amid an arbitrary wave of arrests in Saudi Arabia, Osama Khalid's 14-year sentence was recently upheld. His "crime"? Sharing information online that conflicted with official narratives. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/eff-launches-new-offline-campaign-saudi-wikipedian-osama-khalid

Google acknowledged the risks tied to its technologies, then ignored its own human rights commitments. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/google-and-amazon-acknowledged-risks-and-ignored-responsibilities

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Thanks to all who joined EFF’s Cindy Cohn and Adam Savage last night at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club for a spirited discussion about Cindy’s “Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance” from MIT Press.

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The Department of Homeland Security intends to continue its work with Cellebrite, a provider of digital forensics hardware and software tools. “I don’t think people realize just how invasive these mobile forensic tools are,” EFF’s @cooperq told @fedscoop. https://fedscoop.com/dhs-cellebrite-privacy-drones-data-mobile-devices-ice/

“While there are several different age-checking methods on the market, there is no technology available that is entirely privacy-protective, fully accurate and that guarantees complete coverage of the population,” EFF’s Rin Alajaji told TechNewsWorld. https://www.technewsworld.com/story/meta-enlists-ai-to-enforce-age-restrictions-180332.html

Everyone deserves the sort of privacy that end-to-end encryption offers for their conversations, and we’re happy to see Google and Apple recognized that with this release. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/victory-end-end-encrypted-rcs-comes-apple-and-android-chats

EFF isn't a research shop, but we can read the data. The reality is far more nuanced than those proposing social media bans claim. The research used to justify these sweeping measures is far from settled—and we shouldn't legislate as if it is. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/science-not-settled-how-weak-evidence-fueling-national-push-ban-social-media-youth

Abandoning the promise of end-to-end encryption by default is a blow to the privacy of millions of users. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/broken-promises-rip-instagrams-end-end-encrypted-dms

"Drones are able to have a perspective that law enforcement officers would not typically be able to have when they are patrolling or based on the ground," EFF’s Beryl Lipton told The Nevada Independent. "That really opens the space in which they are able to surveil a person." https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/vegas-police-are-filling-the-sky-with-camera-equipped-drones-residents-have-little-input

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