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Physical media built secondhand markets, swaps, and libraries thanks to the First Sale principle. Without it, digital media is hollowing out those spaces and leaving us with cheap rentals.
Rent-Only Copyright Culture Makes Us All Worse Off
In the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era, many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form – and that means we rarely have the chance to buy them. Instead, we are stuck renting them, subject to all...
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January 23, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Physical media built secondhand markets, swaps, and libraries thanks to the First Sale principle. Without it, digital media is hollowing out those spaces and leaving us with cheap rentals.
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Today’s #CopyrightWeek theme is “Device and Digital Ownership.” One of the greatest threats to digital ownership is the legal protection for digital locks found in Section 1201 of the Copyright Act. Read more about how Big Content turned moral panic over copyright into a massive rights grab:
Re:Create’s Take on Day 3 of EFF’s Copyright Week: Device & Digital Ownership - Re:Create
This week Re:Create member EFF is leading its annual “Copyright Week,” a week that emphasizes how America relies on a balanced copyright system to promote creativity and innovation, and highlights som...
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January 22, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Today’s #CopyrightWeek theme is “Device and Digital Ownership.” One of the greatest threats to digital ownership is the legal protection for digital locks found in Section 1201 of the Copyright Act. Read more about how Big Content turned moral panic over copyright into a massive rights grab:
We're honored to receive the Firefox Extension Developer Award for Privacy Badger. blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025...
Presenting 2025 Firefox Extension Developer Award Recipients – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog
Extensions have long been at the heart of the Firefox — providing users with powerful options to personalize their browsing experience. Nearly half of all Firefox users have installed at least ...
blog.mozilla.org
January 22, 2026 at 10:29 PM
We're honored to receive the Firefox Extension Developer Award for Privacy Badger. blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025...
LISTEN: EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social gave a crash course on cybersecurity threat modeling on the latest episode of @kqednews.kqed.org's Close All Tabs podcast. www.kqed.org/news/120705...
Your Digital Footprint Reveals More Than You Think | KQED
How easy is it to find someone from a single video posted online? To find out, Morgan put her own privacy to the test. She asked TikTok creator JoseMonkey, who’s famous for geolocating people who send him videos asking to be found, to track her down. JoseMonkey started as a geolocation hobbyist who turned to creating videos to bring attention to common mistakes people make when posting online.In this episode, Morgan breaks down why personal operational security matters and what digital hygiene a
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January 22, 2026 at 9:27 PM
LISTEN: EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social gave a crash course on cybersecurity threat modeling on the latest episode of @kqednews.kqed.org's Close All Tabs podcast. www.kqed.org/news/120705...
When the monopoly right granted by copyright is compounded by the speed and scale of media company mergers, we end up with a crisis in creativity. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Copyright Should Not Enable Monopoly
There’s a crisis of creativity in mainstream American culture. We have fewer and fewer studios and record labels and fewer and fewer platforms online that serve independent artists and creators.
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January 22, 2026 at 8:31 PM
When the monopoly right granted by copyright is compounded by the speed and scale of media company mergers, we end up with a crisis in creativity. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Stricter copyright laws might seem tough on big tech, but they just become new tools to enforce monopolies and bully artists. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Copyright Kills Competition
Copyright owners increasingly claim more draconian copyright law and policy will fight back against big tech companies. In reality, copyright gives the most powerful companies even more control over
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January 22, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Stricter copyright laws might seem tough on big tech, but they just become new tools to enforce monopolies and bully artists. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
To curb AI deepfakes, “People fleeing [X], or other ways of exerting financial pressure on the company… will probably be more effective than trying to appeal to [Musk’s] feelings, and certainly to his ethics,” EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @MotherJones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/20...
Grok’s leering AI images are the newest version of an old problem
Image-based abuse predates Elon Musk's latest sleazy bot, but AI is making it worse.
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January 22, 2026 at 6:19 PM
To curb AI deepfakes, “People fleeing [X], or other ways of exerting financial pressure on the company… will probably be more effective than trying to appeal to [Musk’s] feelings, and certainly to his ethics,” EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @MotherJones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/20...
The more media mergers we see, the more copyright is doing the opposite of its intended purpose: instead of encouraging creativity, it’s discouraging it. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Copyright Should Not Enable Monopoly
There’s a crisis of creativity in mainstream American culture. We have fewer and fewer studios and record labels and fewer and fewer platforms online that serve independent artists and creators.
www.eff.org
January 22, 2026 at 12:00 AM
The more media mergers we see, the more copyright is doing the opposite of its intended purpose: instead of encouraging creativity, it’s discouraging it. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Congress is debating a bill that would require platforms to police families’ online behavior, or face legal risk. The result will be more account lockouts, ID checks, and algorithmic mistakes—for both parents and kids.
Congress Wants To Hand Your Parenting to Big Tech
Instead of respecting how most parents guide their kids towards healthy and educational content, KOSMA hands the control panel to Big Tech. That’s right—this bill would take power away from parents, a...
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January 21, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Congress is debating a bill that would require platforms to police families’ online behavior, or face legal risk. The result will be more account lockouts, ID checks, and algorithmic mistakes—for both parents and kids.
“OpenAI is taking the moment to further train an age prediction model, where a false prediction will fall on the user to give private information to further verify their age to another company,” EFF’s @zoracon.bsky.social told @TheRegister.com. www.theregister.com/2026/01/21/...
OpenAI will try to guess your age before ChatGPT gets spicy
: Think of the children...and the monetization options available where they're not allowed
www.theregister.com
January 21, 2026 at 11:03 PM
“OpenAI is taking the moment to further train an age prediction model, where a false prediction will fall on the user to give private information to further verify their age to another company,” EFF’s @zoracon.bsky.social told @TheRegister.com. www.theregister.com/2026/01/21/...
Even in an encrypted chat, “if there’s people you don’t know in there, that’s always gonna be a risk — even just people that you do know who maybe you don’t trust super well,” EFF’s @ThorinKlosowski.com told @HuffPost.com. www.huffpost.com/entry/cyber...
So Your Text Messages Just Got Leaked By Donald Trump... Here's What To Do Next
The trustworthiness of the person on the other end of a message matters a whole lot when you use an informal communication channel like texting.
www.huffpost.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Even in an encrypted chat, “if there’s people you don’t know in there, that’s always gonna be a risk — even just people that you do know who maybe you don’t trust super well,” EFF’s @ThorinKlosowski.com told @HuffPost.com. www.huffpost.com/entry/cyber...
Statutory damages turn copyright litigation into financial Russian roulette, stifling artistic and technological progress at the edges of fair use. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Statutory Damages: The Fuel of Copyright-based Censorship
Imagine every post online came with a bounty of up to $150,000 paid to anyone who finds it violates opaque government rules—all out of the pocket of the platform. It's not a fantasy, it’s close to
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January 21, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Statutory damages turn copyright litigation into financial Russian roulette, stifling artistic and technological progress at the edges of fair use. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Gamers, rise up 🎮 Looking to attend #GDC2026? You can get a 10% discount with EFF's code! www.eff.org/event/eff-g...
EFF at GDC Festival of Gaming
Gamers, rise up! EFF is excited to support and participate in this year's GDC Festival of Gaming! You can stop by and see some of EFF's staff during the GDC Welcome Party on Monday, March 9, at the
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January 21, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Gamers, rise up 🎮 Looking to attend #GDC2026? You can get a 10% discount with EFF's code! www.eff.org/event/eff-g...
If you’re confused about the difference between “age verification,” “age estimation,” “age assurance,” and “age gate” — you’re not alone. Let’s help you make sense of it all. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Age Verification, Estimation, Assurance, Oh My! A Guide to the
Age verification, age assurance, age estimation, age gating—they get thrown around interchangeably, but they technically mean different things. And those differences matter a lot when we're talking
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January 21, 2026 at 6:44 PM
If you’re confused about the difference between “age verification,” “age estimation,” “age assurance,” and “age gate” — you’re not alone. Let’s help you make sense of it all. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
What creepy nonsense are companies up to when they have to guess your age or take your ID for AV? www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now?
This blog also appears in our Age Verification Resource Hub: our one-stop shop for users seeking to understand what age-gating laws actually do, what’s at stake, how to protect yourself, and why EFF
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January 21, 2026 at 4:03 PM
What creepy nonsense are companies up to when they have to guess your age or take your ID for AV? www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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This week Re:Create member @eff.org is leading its annual “Copyright Week,” a week that emphasizes how America relies on a balanced copyright system to promote creativity and innovation, and highlights some of the ways unbalanced copyright hurts consumers, creators, and innovators alike.
January 21, 2026 at 1:51 PM
This week Re:Create member @eff.org is leading its annual “Copyright Week,” a week that emphasizes how America relies on a balanced copyright system to promote creativity and innovation, and highlights some of the ways unbalanced copyright hurts consumers, creators, and innovators alike.
U.S. copyright’s flawed statutory damages regime has devastating consequences for legitimate online speech. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Statutory Damages: The Fuel of Copyright-based Censorship
Imagine every post online came with a bounty of up to $150,000 paid to anyone who finds it violates opaque government rules—all out of the pocket of the platform. It's not a fantasy, it’s close to
www.eff.org
January 21, 2026 at 12:02 AM
U.S. copyright’s flawed statutory damages regime has devastating consequences for legitimate online speech. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
"If you give your data to any third party, you are inevitably giving up some control over it and people should be extremely cautious about doing that when it's their personal health information," EFF’s Corynne McSherry told @darkreading.bsky.social. www.darkreading.com/remote-work...
January 20, 2026 at 10:58 PM
"If you give your data to any third party, you are inevitably giving up some control over it and people should be extremely cautious about doing that when it's their personal health information," EFF’s Corynne McSherry told @darkreading.bsky.social. www.darkreading.com/remote-work...
“It is sickening that ICE is using this flawed app and unacceptable invasion of biometric privacy to supposedly determine whether someone is undocumented and deport them or even worse,” EFF’s @cooperq.com told @404Media.co. www.404media.co/ices-facial...
ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice
In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said the app's results are a “definitive” determination of someone's immigration status.
www.404media.co
January 20, 2026 at 10:03 PM
“It is sickening that ICE is using this flawed app and unacceptable invasion of biometric privacy to supposedly determine whether someone is undocumented and deport them or even worse,” EFF’s @cooperq.com told @404Media.co. www.404media.co/ices-facial...
“[Amazon is] doubling down on privacy invasion and supporting the misconception that more surveillance always makes us safer,” EFF’s Cindy Cohn said at #CES2026, as reported in @MensJournal.com. www.mensjournal.com/news/amazon...
January 20, 2026 at 9:03 PM
“[Amazon is] doubling down on privacy invasion and supporting the misconception that more surveillance always makes us safer,” EFF’s Cindy Cohn said at #CES2026, as reported in @MensJournal.com. www.mensjournal.com/news/amazon...
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Seattle! We're back in February for BSides Seattle. Be sure to stop by the conference and say hello 👋 We'll be chatting about our latest work defending privacy and free speech for all! www.eff.org/event/eff-b...
EFF at BSides Seattle
EFF is excited to be at BSides Seattle for the first time! If you're attending the event, be sure to stop by EFF's table in the exhibitor area where we'll be spreading the word about our efforts to
www.eff.org
January 20, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Seattle! We're back in February for BSides Seattle. Be sure to stop by the conference and say hello 👋 We'll be chatting about our latest work defending privacy and free speech for all! www.eff.org/event/eff-b...
"Employers have a lot of latitude in the workplace to do video monitoring and really lots of different kinds of surveillance," EFF’s @htsuka.bsky.social told @CBSNews.com — and some of that surveillance doesn’t get turned off when employees are off the clock. www.cbsnews.com/news/why-ca...
Your boss could be watching: Why California lawmakers killed a workplace surveillance bill
Do you ever feel like someone's watching you? Well, you might be right, and it might be your boss.
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January 20, 2026 at 6:01 PM
"Employers have a lot of latitude in the workplace to do video monitoring and really lots of different kinds of surveillance," EFF’s @htsuka.bsky.social told @CBSNews.com — and some of that surveillance doesn’t get turned off when employees are off the clock. www.cbsnews.com/news/why-ca...
Even though there’s no way to implement mandated age gates in a way that fully protects speech and privacy rights, EFF wants to help you minimize the infringement of your rights as you manage the imposition of age gates. Learn more in our guide to navigating age assurance: eff.org/deeplinks/2...
So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now?
This blog also appears in our Age Verification Resource Hub: our one-stop shop for users seeking to understand what age-gating laws actually do, what’s at stake, how to protect yourself, and why EFF
www.eff.org
January 20, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Even though there’s no way to implement mandated age gates in a way that fully protects speech and privacy rights, EFF wants to help you minimize the infringement of your rights as you manage the imposition of age gates. Learn more in our guide to navigating age assurance: eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Si defiendes que el uso policial de drones necesita límites claros, entonces te contamos qué pasó con estos programas y por qué generan tantas preguntas: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Programas de drones como primeros intervinientes: 2025 en
La adopción de los drones como primeros intervinientes (DFR, por sus siglas en inglés) despegó realmente en 2025. Aunque el concepto existe desde 2018, este año se ha producido una mayor
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January 20, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Si defiendes que el uso policial de drones necesita límites claros, entonces te contamos qué pasó con estos programas y por qué generan tantas preguntas: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...