The Trump administration’s new policy requiring applicants for student and exchange visas to set social media accounts to “public” for government review is a dangerous expansion of existing social media collection efforts. This policy gravely chills free expression. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/you-shouldnt-have-make-your-social-media-public-get-visa

A bar hosted a drag show. Now Florida wants a list of names. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/you-went-drag-show-now-state-florida-wants-your-name

Using a little extra juice to power Christmas lights shouldn’t bring the cops to your door — but police looking for cannabis are using power meters as home-mounted spies. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/when-your-power-meter-becomes-tool-mass-surveillance

After the Supreme Court's decision in FSC v. Paxton, EFF and others fighting against online age restrictions have our work cut out for us. But the case doesn't apply to all age restrictions. And we'll keep fighting to protect against broader age-gating mandates. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/despite-supreme-court-setback-eff-fights-against-online-age-mandates

Completely unconstrained capitalism turns technology into weapons instead of tools, tells EFF’s Cindy Cohn and on the latest episode of “How to Fix the Internet.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/podcast-episode-smashing-tech-oligarchy

“What the government is trying to achieve is one big database with all of the data that the president can use, however he wants,” EFF’s told Truthdig. https://www.truthdig.com/articles/deputizing-the-irs/

“We just know that this system, with those safeguards, and with that process has been massively abused to take down lawful speech, because people recognize that it’s a legal means of censoring speech online,” EFF’s told Prism. https://prismreports.org/2025/07/21/take-it-down-act-censorship-art/

DHS and HHS are scheming to use Medicaid data to identify and deport immigrants. Read the amicus brief from EFF and our friends at EPIC and Protect Democracy Project. https://eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/eff-court-protect-our-health-data-dhs