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Join EFF and Help Guide Our International Policy Work Do you want to help defend civil liberties around the world? Are you an expert in copyright, intermediary liability, and European lawmaking?  A rare opportunity to help guide EFF in those arenas is now available— we’re hiring an International Policy Director . EFF weighs in when international lawmaking has a huge potential impact on the Internet for everyone. That’s why we banded with organizations around the world to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership , whose copyright and anti-hacking measures would have changed the global Internet for the worse. It’s also why we fought to stop Article 13 in Europe , which now threatens to usher in a new era of a more highly filtered web. The policy fights that will change the Internet for everyone frequently happen in international forums. The International Policy Director will act as a bridge between EFF’s legal strategy and our international policy work. You don’t have to be a lawyer ...

Government Fights to Trap EFF’s NSA Spying Case in a Catch-22 The U.S. government admits—and, of course, it’s common knowledge—that the NSA conducts mass, dragnet surveillance of hundreds of millions of Americans’ communications. It has done so via a series of different technical strategies and legal arguments for over 18 years. Yet the Justice Department insists that our legal fight against this spying is bound by a Catch-22 : no one can sue unless the court first determines that they were certainly touched by the vast surveillance mechanisms of the NSA, but the court cannot decide whether any particular person’s email, web searches, social media or phone calls were touched by the surveillance unless the government admits it. Which, of course, it will not do. At a federal court hearing last month in Oakland, California for our Jewel v. NSA case, we took on this circular argument. EFF Special Counsel Richard Wiebe reviewed the vast trove of direct and circumstantial evidence show...

California’s Attorney General Wants to Empower People to Protect Their Privacy. Sacramento Legislators Should Listen. California’s lawmakers took a much-needed step last year by passing the California Consumer Privacy Act as a foundation for consumer privacy rights. Now they need to step up to make sure it can work as intended. One of the major issues identified by the California Attorney General (AG) Xavier Becerra is that the limited resources the legislature has provided the AG to protect consumer privacy means the CCPA’s goals — and the privacy rights Californians want and deserve — will be undercut before the law goes into effect next year. In response, California’s Senate Judiciary Committee this week passed Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson’s bill, S.B. 516, which would give the AG’s office much-needed support to enforce the law, including by allowing every Californian to act as their own privacy enforcer with the right to challenge companies that violate their privacy in court. 94...

With FOSTA Already Leading to Censorship, We Are Seeking Reinstatement Of Our Lawsuit Challenging the Law’s Constitutionality With Help From Rights Groups Internet websites and forums are continuing to censor speech with adult content on their platforms to avoid running afoul of the new anti-sex trafficking law FOSTA. The measure’s vague, ambiguous language and stiff criminal and civil penalties are driving constitutionally protected content off the Internet. The consequences of this censorship are devastating for marginalized communities, especially organizations that provide support and services to victims of trafficking and child abuse, sex workers, and groups and individuals promoting sexual freedom. The fear that comments, posts, or ads that are sexual in nature will be ensnared by FOSTA, many have gone offline and back to the streets, where they’ve been sexually abused and physically harmed. A federal judge dismissed EFF’s lawsuit last summer without reaching the merits of ...