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On the blog this week, we wrote about why accessing your fundamental human right to comprehensive sexual education should not depend on where you live and featured research from our friends at @siecus.bsky.social.

Read all about it: www.woodhullfoundation.org/accessing-se...
Accessing Sex Ed  — Woodhull Freedom Foundation
Accessing your fundamental human right to comprehensive sexual education should not depend on where you live. And yet, it absolutely does. As Nadra Nittle reports, recent research from the national no...
www.woodhullfoundation.org
December 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Parental controls & curfews for kids on social media “may end in the child just not having access to important creative expression outlets, important ways to connect, important ways to find even life-saving resources," EFF’s Molly Buckley told News Channel 3 WWMT-TV. wwmt.com/news/state/...
Michigan bill would require parental permission for minors to use social media
A bill being considered in the Michigan House could mean tighter controls for kids on social media including a requirement for parental permission for minors.
wwmt.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Our new Age Verification Resource Hub is live at EFF.org/Age — and next week (12/15–12/17), we’re hosting an AMA on r/privacy to talk about it. Come ask us anything about what these sweeping laws really mean for your rights and safety.
Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub
Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious
www.eff.org
December 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Losing anonymity online “means that personal private data is able to be collected and retained and stored and breached, maybe used by bad actors linking your identity to the sites that you visit online,” EFF’s Molly Buckley told @MichiganPublic.bsky.social. www.michiganpublic.org/politics-go...
Michigan bill would require parental consent for teens on social media
Michigan lawmakers are weighing legislation that would require major social media platforms to verify users’ ages and obtain parental consent for anyone under 18.
www.michiganpublic.org
December 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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As age getting spreads around the world, posing the most serious threat to the global free and open internet that I have ever seen, we @eff.org have launched a one-stop resource site www.eff.org/issues/age-v...
Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub
Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious “ag...
www.eff.org
December 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Today we’re launching EFF.org/Age, our one-stop shop to answer all your questions about online age verification mandates. What’s at stake for users? How do we push back? What even IS age verification, anyway? Visit EFF.org/Age now to explore our resources and join the fight to protect the internet.
Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub
Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious
www.eff.org
December 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
INTRODUCING our beautiful new age verification resource hub! We at @eff.org built this to answer all of your questions about age gates and to help you make good safe decisions when this censorship and surveillance nightmare reaches you. Suuuuper proud of my little Team AV.
Today we’re launching EFF.org/Age, our one-stop shop to answer all your questions about online age verification mandates. What’s at stake for users? How do we push back? What even IS age verification, anyway? Visit EFF.org/Age now to explore our resources and join the fight to protect the internet.
Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub
Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious
www.eff.org
December 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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As more and more states roll out some form of mobile driver’s license, you might be asking yourself: should I use this thing? www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Should I Use My State’s Digital Driver’s License?
A mobile driver’s license (often called an mDL) is a version of your ID that you keep on your phone instead of in your pocket. In theory, it would work wherever your regular ID works—TSA, liquor
www.eff.org
November 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Super obvious case for the left to embrace privacy (specifically from corporate and police-state surveillance) as a core tenet of its politics
I’ve been a fan of @eff.org for a long time, and I’m joining them in the fight to #TakeBackCTRL. Authoritarians are using tech to spy on us and silence our voices. Technology should enhance our lives and support democracy, not make them worse. Join the fight today: takebackctrl.org
Take Back CTRL
Dont let tyrants co-opt tech. Join EFF and help fight back
takebackctrl.org
October 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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roses are red
big laughs are hearty
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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The success of Ring is just an incredibly American story: Individualism expressed through consumer habits resulting in the voluntary creation of a national surveillance network. Add home security cameras to the list with guns, cars
October 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Proponents claim that age verification mandates will help hold Big Tech companies accountable. But as we’re seeing in Mississippi, these laws cause smaller platforms to close and users to suffer while Big Tech reaps the rewards. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For
If you live in Mississippi, you may have noticed that you are no longer able to log into your Bluesky or Dreamwidth accounts from within the state. That’s because, in a chilling early warning sign
www.eff.org
September 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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The laws requiring digital age checks — sold as child protection — are tanking the income of adult industry workers, risking their safety and even forcing them out of business.
Age verification on porn sites is putting queer adult industry workers at risk
The laws requiring digital age checks — sold as child protection — are tanking the income of adult industry workers, risking their safety and even forcing them out of business.
19thnews.org
September 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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There's "a popular misconception that age-verification mandates are going to be the best way to rein in big tech and hold them accountable," EFF's Molly Buckley told @rollingstone.com - but these laws will just further line the biggest platforms' pockets. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cul...
‘Anonymity Online Is Going to Die’: What Age-Verification Laws Could Look Like in the U.S.
As controversy around the U.K.’s Online Safety Act continues, experts warn about similar legislation thriving in the U.S.
www.rollingstone.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Back at EFF as an activist this time, not a lawyer. And just in time to watch age verification swallow up all that is good about the internet. Yay!!!!!! 🤧
August 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
we're gathering examples of censorship of abortion-related information on social media. please help us spread the word! and fill out this survey if you've been affected
February 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
really proud of this campaign!
Access to abortion information is being suppressed online, so we’re collecting stories of digital censorship to hold platforms accountable.

#StopCensoringAbortion
February 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Does the new version of KOSA they're trying to cram at the last minute to the funding bill solve KOSA's first amendment problems? Ha ha no.

Tell your Congressional Rep. you're not falling for this shit and neither should they.

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
X's Last-Minute Update to the Kids Online Safety Act Still Fails to Protect Kids—or Adults—Online
Late last week, the Senate released yet another version of the Kids Online Safety Act, written, reportedly, with the assistance of X CEO Linda Yaccarino in a flawed attempt to address the critical fre...
www.eff.org
December 12, 2024 at 7:49 PM