Key Senators Have Voted For The Anti-Encryption EARN IT Act
By Joe Mullin Earlier today, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance the dangerous EARN IT bill. We’re disappointed to see the committee advance this…
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EFF Joins Activists And Human Rights Groups To Reject Attacks on Encryption
By Joe Mullin Encryption is under attack. In liberal democracies, elected leaders are giving lip service to our right to privacy—while seeking to create a…
It’s Back: Senators Want EARN IT Bill to Scan All Online Messages
By Joe Mullin People don’t want outsiders reading their private messages—not their physical mail, not their texts, not their DMs, nothing. It’s a clear and…
The U.K. Paid $724,000 For A Creepy Campaign To Convince People That Encryption is Bad. It Won’t Work.
By Joe Mullin This week, the U.K. government launched an unprecedented and deceptive effort to kill off end-to-end encryption. They’ve hired a fancy ad agency…
2021 Was the Year Lawmakers Tried to Regulate Online Speech
By Joe Mullin On the biggest internet platforms, content moderation is bad and getting worse. It’s difficult to get it right, and at the scale…
On Global Encryption Day, Let’s Stand Up for Privacy and Security
By Joe Mullin At EFF, we talk a lot about strong encryption. It’s critical for our privacy and security online. That’s why we litigate in…
Urgent: EARN IT Act Introduced in House of Representatives
By Joe Mullin The dangerous EARN IT Act passed the Senate Judiciary Committee last month, and now it’s been introduced in the House of Representatives….
The New EARN IT Bill Still Threatens Encryption and Free Speech
By Joe Mullin The day before a committee debate and vote on the EARN IT Act, the bill’s sponsors replaced their bill with an amended…
Tell Your Senator: Vote No on the EARN IT Act
By Joe Mullin This month, Americans are out in the streets, demanding police accountability. But rather than consider reform proposals, a key Senate committee is…
The EARN IT Bill Is the Government’s Plan to Scan Every Message Online
By Joe Mullin Imagine an Internet where the law required every message sent to be read by government-approved scanning software. Companies that handle such messages…
The Graham-Blumenthal Bill: A New Path for DOJ to Finally Break Encryption
By Joe Mullin Members of Congress are about to introduce a bill that will undermine the law that undergirds free speech on the Internet. If…
U.K. Police Will Soon be able to Search Through U.S. Data Without Asking a Judge
By Joe Mullin Law enforcement officials in the U.S. and U.K. have negotiated a deal that sells out the privacy rights of the public in…
Congress, Remember the 4th Amendment? It’s Time to Stop the U.S.-UK Agreement.
By Joe Mullin Unless Congress stops it, foreign police will soon be able to collect and search data on the servers of U.S. Internet companies….
The Open Letter from the Governments of US, UK, and Australia to Facebook is An All-Out Attack on Encryption
By Andrew Crocker and Joe Mullin Top law enforcement officials in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia told Facebook today that they want backdoor…