Regulation & enforcement

New California Bill Would Prohibit Apps From Changing User Privacy Settings Without Consent

Horizon Scan: Children’s Online Safety and Privacy (EU and Beyond)

Manhattan D.A.’s Office Seizes Domains Of 12 Illegal Websites Selling AI-Generated “Deep Fakes”

Delaware Consumer Privacy and Data-Breach Law Updates

Governor Newsom Signs Student-Backed Digital Literacy Bills Alongside Misguided Bans

CISA Calls for More Guidance, Less Spin, as Cyber Outages Escalate

We All Deserve a Better Internet, Not A Smaller One

Australia Privacy Update – Proposed privacy law reform

FTC rescinds policy requiring health apps to notify customers after a breach

Lawmakers call on Treasury to sanction hackers-for-hire

Grindr settles privacy lawsuit tied to disclosure of users’ HIV statuses for $35 million

The push to stop algorithms controlling social media feeds has begun

Appeals Court Rules IRS Can’t Share Taxpayer Data With ICE

Grindr settles HIV status data-sharing lawsuit for $35 million

ACLU Settles Lawsuit with Sonoma County, Curbing Invasive Runaway Drone Surveillance Program that Trampled People’s Privacy

Lawyers get $147M from Google data tracking suit; Class members get $5

French hospital fined €500,000 after breach exposes data of 727,000

Your phone or computer may soon ask how old you are

The FCC wants consumers to rate their telecom’s anti-robocall protections

Texas and Florida Step Back from ALPRs

Meta's $17 Billion Settlement is a Bad Deal for Teens and All Social Media Users

EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California’s AB 1709

California Lawmakers Gut Private Suits Under Key Privacy Law

Privacy on the Map (Part 2): Progress, Pitfalls, and the Fight for Enforceable Location Data Protections

CT AG Focused on Privacy—Announces 2 Settlements with Meta + TaxAct

California Legislature Advances Bill to Strengthen Deletion Rights

EFF and Allies on Brazil's Elections: Privacy Protections are Crucial to Electoral Integrity

EFF Statement on Meta Settlement

French Top Court Gets It Right, Strikes Down Social Media Ban For Youths

Meta Reaches $16.68 Billion Settlement Over Social Media Harms To Children

Tomorrow’s U.S. Senate Vote: Four Internet Bills, One Wrong Direction

The Senate Should Reject KOSA's Privacy Risks

EFF Joins 18 Civil Rights Organizations Calling on Governor Hochul to Reject the Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act

The Youth AI Privacy Act’s Privacy Paradox

Amending AB 1709 Doesn’t Fix It: California’s Social Media Ban Still Threatens Free Speech and Privacy

The SCREEN Act Threatens Privacy Far Beyond Adult Websites

The CHATBOT Act Forces One Parenting Model On Every Family

San Francisco: Don’t Fall for Industry Defense of Surveillance Pricing

Brazil gives parents social media controls for their kids. Should the US?

The Fourth Circuit Says Border Agents Can Search Your Phone By Hand, No Suspicion Required

Websites break California privacy law at ‘industrial scale,’ survey finds

Background checks to curb dating app violence advance in California legislature

California tried to protect students’ data. Tech companies found loopholes