Electronic Frontier Foundation

  • Tell Congress: Oppose the GUARD Act
    on April 27, 2026

    Congress is moving quickly on the revised GUARD Act, S. 3062. While lawmakers narrowed the bill after widespread criticism, it still requires intrusive age-verification systems for AI companions and […]

  • Stop California’s Social Media Ban (A.B. 1709)
    on April 23, 2026

    The California Assembly is fast-tracking A.B. 1709, a bill that would ban everyone under 16 from social media. This over-reaching censorship scheme threatens your data privacy, ignores the First […]

  • Stop New York’s Surveillance and Censorship Mandate Before It’s Too Late
    on April 16, 2026

    New York’s state budget could pass within days. Buried deep in the text is a provision that has nothing to do with balancing the books. Part C of the budget bill would require every 3D printer sold […]

  • Tell Congress: Don't Let Anyone Own The Law
    on April 16, 2026

    Court after court has recognized that no one can own the text of the law. But the Pro Codes Act is a deceptive power grab that will help giant industry associations ration access to huge swaths of […]

  • Congress Has Until June to Take Action on 702. Tell Them Not to Drop The Ball
    on April 8, 2026

    There are no excuses for any Member of Congress to support a clean reauthorization of Section 702. Anyone who votes to do so does not take your privacy seriously. Full stop.Section 702 of the […]

  • Tell Congress: The GUARD Act Won't Keep Us Safe
    on November 14, 2025

    Congress is considering the GUARD Act, an age-verification mandate that would force every AI chatbot to verify all users' ages, ban teens from using many everyday digital tools, and require AI […]

  • Tell Congress: Throw Out the NO FAKES Act and Start Over
    on June 23, 2025

    AI-generated imitations raise legitimate concerns, and Congress should consider narrowly-targeted and proportionate proposals to deal with them. Instead, some Senators have proposed the broad NO […]

  • Congress Can Act Now to Protect Reproductive Health Data
    on June 11, 2025

    Privacy fears should never stand in the way of healthcare. That's why this common-sense bill will require businesses and non-governmental organizations to act responsibly with personal information […]

  • Don’t Let Congress Bring Back the Worst Patents
    on May 30, 2025

    Two dangerous patent bills—PERA and PREVAIL—are back in Congress. These bills would revive harmful patents and make it harder for the public to fight back.The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act […]

EFF: How to Fix The Internet Podcast

  • Bonus Episode: Privacy’s Defender
    on March 17, 2026

    While How to Fix the Internet is on hiatus, we wanted to share a great conversation with you from earlier this week. EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn spoke with bestselling novelist, journalist, and […]

  • Introducing EFFector: How Targeted Advertising Gives Your Location to the Government
    on March 11, 2026

    A new podcast from the Electronic Frontier Foundation: The digital world isn't just a place you visit on your phone. It's the battleground where tomorrow's civil liberties will be won—or lost. Each […]

  • Building and Preserving the Library of Everything
    on September 10, 2025

    All this season, “How to Fix the Internet” has been focusing on the tools and technology of freedom – and one of the most important tools of freedom is a library. Access to knowledge not only […]

  • Protecting Privacy in Your Brain
    on August 27, 2025

    The human brain might be the grandest computer of all, but in this episode, we talk to two experts who confirm that the ability for tech to decipher thoughts, and perhaps even manipulate them, isn't […]

  • Separating AI Hope from AI Hype
    on August 13, 2025

    If you believe the hype, artificial intelligence will soon take all our jobs, or solve all our problems, or destroy all boundaries between reality and lies, or help us live forever, or take over the […]

  • Smashing the Tech Oligarchy
    on July 30, 2025

    Many of the internet’s thorniest problems can be attributed to the concentration of power in a few corporate hands: the surveillance capitalism that makes it profitable to invade our privacy, the […]

  • Finding the Joy in Digital Security
    on July 16, 2025

    Many people approach digital security training with furrowed brows, as an obstacle to overcome. But what if learning to keep your tech safe and secure was consistently playful and fun? People react […]

  • Cryptography Makes a Post-Quantum Leap
    on July 2, 2025

    The cryptography that protects our privacy and security online relies on the fact that even the strongest computers will take essentially forever to do certain tasks, like factoring prime numbers and […]

  • Securing Journalism on the ‘Data-Greedy’ Internet
    on June 18, 2025

    Public-interest journalism speaks truth to power, so protecting press freedom is part of protecting democracy. But what does it take to digitally secure journalists’ work in an environment where […]

  • Why Three is Tor's Magic Number
    on June 4, 2025

    Many in Silicon Valley, and in U.S. business at large, seem to believe innovation springs only from competition, a race to build the next big thing first, cheaper, better, best. But what if […]

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