If you’re serious about prioritizing people over profit, pass a comprehensive consumer data privacy law that protects everyone from exploitive corporate surveillance.

So it seems there's a push, again, by Congress to set an expiration date for Section 230 for the purposes of forcing reform-that is, accept reform in the next X months or lose it completely. And by "accept reform," Congress almost always, probably always, means THE BIG TECH PLATFORMS.

2 fallacies:

Online age verification isn't like showing ID at a bar. It's more invasive, affects far more transactions, and poses serious privacy, security, and free speech risks that in-person checks never do. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

A court has ruled that a police cannot rifle through entire zip codes' worth of people's private utility data. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

New suit from @mariotrujillo.bsky.social and me.

EFF and our co-counsel have sued to stop the Trump administration from targeting visa holders for deportation based on their social media posts. Read the press release and our full complaint: www.eff.org/press/relea....

The Ninth Circuit just delivered good news for digital privacy: abandoning a phone doesn't abandon your Fourth Amendment rights in the phone's contents. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

You should be skeptical of any government tool that relies on secrecy to operate www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

DOE: To more efficiently serve the public and build confidence in our work, we're . . . shutting out thousands of members of the public who have requested information about work.

Why Aren't Hundreds of Data Brokers Registering with States?

A new analysis of 750 data brokers reveals that many data brokers that registered in one state aren’t registered in others

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/

Thanks! We also published a deeper look at the speech and encryption problems with this bill yesterday:

My colleagues are the best.

The Supreme Court will hear another digital speech case this week that will determine whether we will continue to have an anonymous internet or whether our speech and privacy will be jeopardized by state lawmakers across the country.

If the goal of the TikTok ban is to send a message to China, what this law really says is that our people easily succumb to Chinese influence and the U.S. government is terrified of China's ability to dupe us all.

And even worse, I only heard Justice Gorsuch call out the government's position as casting everyone as being so helpless as to require the government's paternalism.

Post-TikTok argument, I continue to be disturbed at how infantilizing the law and government arguments in support of it are. The government thinks so little of us and other institutions (a free press for one) that it has to ban an entire social media service.

Lawmakers and courts spent 2024 trying to undermine Section 230 - a key law that enables internet users’ speech. EFF fought back.

EFF has helped the San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center (commonly known as @indybay.bsky.social) fight off an unlawful search warrant and gag order served by the San Francisco Police Department - a victory for press freedom.