Notices by Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)

The American Copyright Protection Act would let copyright owners seek court orders forcing ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block Americans’ from accessing to entire websites. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/congress-has-another-site-blocking-bill-and-one-targets-vpns

Recent federal data consolidations started with DOGE, moved to anti-immigrant data sharing with DHS, and on to data-driven purges of state voter rolls. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/resisting-menace-federal-data-consolidation

Framing the work of LGBTQ+ organizations as organized crime is a new low for Turkey, where human rights have long been under attack. We call on Turkish authorities to end the discriminatory crackdown on queer rights groups." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/turkish-crackdown-lgbtq-organizations-threatens-freedom-expression-and-association

Age verification laws that require users to possess a current passport, driver’s license, or similar to prove identity exclude critical populations. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/when-no-id-means-no-internet-age-verification-and-right-access-information

The American Copyright Protection Act would let copyright owners seek court orders forcing ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block Americans’ from accessing to entire websites. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/congress-has-another-site-blocking-bill-and-one-targets-vpns

Site-blocking isn’t just theoretically dangerous. Italy’s system blocked hundreds of innocent websites. Spain’s swept up domains belonging to Greenpeace and Harvard. Now Congress wants to bring this to the U.S. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/congress-has-another-site-blocking-bill-and-one-targets-vpns

VICTORY: A lawsuit seeking to end the Trump administration's social media surveillance program will move forward. https://eff.org/press/releases/victory-court-rejects-government-effort-dismiss-social-media-surveillance-lawsuit

Using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to protect your online privacy is not a “loophole” that needs to be closed, and a federal judge has blocked a controversial Utah law that treated it as one. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/court-agrees-eff-utahs-vpn-law-demands-technical-impossibility

With the launch of iOS 27, Apple is rolling out a variety of new AI features to Siri. But how are AI tools like these handling our data? Find out more with our latest issue of EFFector: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/hey-siri-how-do-i-limit-ai-data-access-effector-3817

AirTags make that noise "because you cannot make a tracker that does not alert a thief without also making ... a tool for stalking,” EFF’s @evacide told @sixcolors. “I think these people have, in fact, considered the implications and decided that they don’t care.” https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/10/silencing-airtags-enables-stalkers-and-domestic-violence/

Hear former EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn and EFF co-founder John Gilmore discuss the Secret Service’s “Operation Sundevil,” jet-setting tech titans, tie-dyed cypherpunks, and a fateful house party in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district amid the earliest battles for online privacy. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/privacys-defenders-podcast-cowboys-cypherpunks-and-visionaries

Stretch your brain muscles with this bundle of programming-themed puzzle games! Pay what you want and benefit EFF, too. https://www.humblebundle.com/games/programming-puzzles-bundle

Our new “Privacy’s Defenders” podcast talks to the activists, lawyers and technologists who have fought for a better, more secure and private digital future – a future that’s still attainable. Episode 1, “Cowboys, Cypherpunks and Visionaries,” is our origin story. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/privacys-defenders-podcast-cowboys-cypherpunks-and-visionaries

EFF’s @maassive joins Spectacles to discuss the AI integrated surveillance towers that line the US-Mexico border – and that could be coming soon to a city near you. https://youtu.be/edfrUcCGejA?si=qqT4JVX9I47bzyKl

EFF sued to get documents about WISeR, a pilot program that uses AI to authorize or deny certain types of care for patients with Medicare. “According to the documents released by the EFF, the program’s implementation was rushed, and the technology wasn’t ready,” @arstechnica reports. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/09/trump-admin-using-ai-to-deny-medical-care-for-seniors-in-disastrous-experiment/

Online behavioral advertising has always been creepy. AI makes it worse.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/draftkings-using-ai-supercharge-harms-online-behavioral-advertising

Online sports betting company DraftKings is using AI to target losing gamblers. This is yet another example of how online behavioral advertising hurts real people. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/draftkings-using-ai-supercharge-harms-online-behavioral-advertising

iOS 27 gives us Siri AI, which can dig deep into your device to find information, but introduces some new privacy problems to consider. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/how-limit-what-apples-new-siri-ai-can-access-ios-27

Young people have been using social media for political advocacy and community organizing for more than a decade. Meta’s recent settlement is a threat that could silence the voices of future young advocates. https://www.eff.org/how-the-meta-settlement-silences-youth-activism

What would it take to build an internet where people actually have a say in how their digital spaces are governed? Join Babette Ngene, Rory Mir, Bruce Schneier, and Mallory Knodel as they dig into decentralized platforms live on 9/17 at 11AM PT, followed by Q&A. https://eff.org/livestream-sweb