Popular Dating Site Has No Love for Strong Security
Back in 2012, EFF first called out OKCupid for failing to safeguard user data by not implementing HTTPS site-wide.
Three years later, OKCupid still hasn’t fixed the problem. For users who haven’t upgraded to paid accounts, their emails,...

Update September 15, 2015: The Kilton Library board has met and, after hearing from Tor supporters in the community and the 4,314 people who signed our petition, have unanimously opted to reinstate the library's relay. Congratulations to the activists from the Tor Project and the Library Freedom Project who've worked...

Yesterday, EFF filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, pushing back against a district court decision that expanded state law copyrights in pre-1972 sound recordings. This may sound familiar: we recently filed a similar brief in the Second Circuit. In both cases,...

The Attorney General’s Office of New Jersey is on a crusade to dismantle the important search and seizure protections afforded to the state’s citizens. As part of the latest assault on individual rights to due process, in State v. Lunsford, the attorney general has asked the New Jersey Supreme Court...

The Washington State Supreme Court delivered a disappointing decision last week, allowing a lawsuit to proceed against Backpage.com for the use of its classified ads service by sex traffickers. Three minor trafficking victims brought the suit against Backpage, alleging that the website played a "substantial role" in developing the...

More than 120 cosplayers posed for privacy and free speech at EFF and Access Now's Project Secret Identity station at Dragon Con. Over the Labor Day weekend, we were visited by Scarecrow and "Weird Al," Marvel Zombies and self-designed Steampunk characters, and heroes and villains from anime and video games—all...

The California Legislature wants the DMV to start issuing “Enhanced Driver Licenses” (EDL), similar to a REAL ID, that contain an RFID tag that could expose information about you from up to 30 feet away.
We need your help to bring S.B. 249 to a screeching halt...