This is a big, big deal. Spyware companies are rarely made to defend their practices against their targets in US courts, even when the consequences of their spying, in this case imprisonment and torture, is so severe. So great news that Alhathloul's case moves forward. https://www.eff.org/press/releases/torture-victims-landmark-hacking-lawsuit-against-spyware-maker-can-proceed-judge

"This is really the first time, that I’m aware of, where a U.S. court has found that it has jurisdiction over a spyware victim when the spying was done at the behest of a foreign government," EFF’s @davidgreene told Courthouse News Service.
https://www.courthousenews.com/federal-judge-advances-saudi-activists-lawsuit-against-emirati-cybersecurity-firm/

NEWS: Loujain AlHathloul's spyware lawsuit against Dark Matter survives a motion to dismiss, and the CFAA claims will proceed in US courts. That is a huge win! Order is temporarily sealed -- we will publish more when it is unsealed. For background: https://www.eff.org/cases/alhathloul-v-darkmatter-group

Speaking freely online shouldn’t cost you your visa. But the federal government is using social media surveillance to target student visa holders living in the U.S. for online speech the administration disfavors. This is an alarming attack on digital rights. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/trump-administrations-targeting-international-students-jeopardizes-free-speech-and

Join EFF's @davidgreene and Jillian York as well as Mastodon's @mellifluousbox, Bluesky's Emily Liu, and Spill's Kenya Parham for our upcoming livestream "Is There Hope for Social Media?" live on March 20! https://eff.org/livestream-socialmedia

“When there is legitimate concern about the vast amounts of information that people freely hand over to social media companies, app stores, devices & other services,” laws that require collecting MORE data don't make sense, EFF’s @aaronmackey told @CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/tech/app-store-age-verification-meta-tension/index.html

Legal Services Corp. Velasquez (government cannot seek "to use an existing medium of expression and to control it, in a class of cases, in ways which distort its usual functioning") applies beyond lawyering to editorial processes, libraries, academic freedom, etc. https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/531/533/

Judge Howell's' opinion in the Perkins Coie case, to be posted by tomorrow, will in fiery language condemn Trump's effort to distort the normal functioning of the legal system. This critical rule is not limited to the legal system. SCOTUS has similarly said no distortion of other systems too.

RIP Mark Klein. Expose government wrongdoing in his memory, and support others with the courage to do so.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying

We stand with Perkins Coie. "Lawsuits against the federal government are a vital component of the system of checks and balances that undergirds American democracy.... The Executive Order, if enforced, would upend that system."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/eff-stands-perkins-coie-and-rule-law

No method of age verification is both privacy-protective and entirely accurate. Introducing these laws is dangerous, and expanding them to things like skincare, dating apps, and diet pills has enormous unintended consequences for your personal data. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/first-porn-now-skin-cream-age-verification-bills-are-out-control

As reported here https://www.wired.com/story/rights-con-taipei-doge-foreign-aid-cuts/ grantees of the US govt are being told they must comply with the govt's anti-DEI purge for all of their programs, even those not funded by the USG. If you are such an NGO, I'd love to talk to you. For Contact my info: https://eff.org

One way to distinguish serious proposals to re-examine the US intermediary liability scheme from the "repealing §230 will solve everything I hate about the internet and also punish Meta" shouting is that the former will look at the various international models and to see which, if any, are better.

But, dear reader, we rarely see the former from US lawmakers. Maybe not ever.

He said the quiet part out loud: Trump supports the Take it Down Act, a badly flawed law lacking legal protections against abuse, so he can use it to censor his critics. If it passes, he won't be the only powerful person to do so. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/trump-calls-congress-pass-overbroad-take-it-down-act-so-he-can-use-it-censor

As reported here https://www.wired.com/story/rights-con-taipei-doge-foreign-aid-cuts/ grantees of the US govt are being told they must comply with the govt's anti-DEI purge for all of their programs, even those not funded by the USG. If you are such an NGO, I'd love to talk to you. For Contact my info: https://eff.org

Seems that many soon-to-be-graduating law students who'd arranged human rights-focused jobs with the US government next year are now out in the cold.

So we've re-opened our application window for those seeking a host for an externally funded post-grad fellowship. https://www.eff.org/about/opportunities/legal-fellows#main-content

BREAKING: We are suing DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to stop the brazen and illegal data sharing of federal employee data with the “government efficiency” group. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/eff-sues-doge-and-office-personnel-management-halt-ransacking-federal-data

@kevinrns awesome. thanks

@davidgreene
I uploaded your image to mastodon and "detected" the words from the posting box.

Those words, unedited, are in alt.