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https://www.eff.org/
Websites
Runtime: 690ms
On August 01, 2025, 03:06 PM UTC, https://www.eff.org/ was accessible when tested on AS136210 in Myanmar (Burma).
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DNS Queries
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172.217.44.211
Query:
IN A www.eff.org
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Connection to 151.101.0.201:443 succeeded.
Connection to 151.101.192.201:443 succeeded.
Connection to 151.101.64.201:443 succeeded.
HTTP Requests
URL
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Going to a drag show should not mean you forfeit your anonymity. It should not open you up to surveillance. And it absolutely should not land your name in a government database.</div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-2 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field views-field-content-thumbnail"> <span class="field-content"><div class="teaser-thumbnail"><a href="/deeplinks/2025/07/just-banning-minors-social-media-not-protecting-them"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/feature/public/banner_library/eu-flag-11.png?itok=VhH3U7wG" width="780" height="390" alt="EU-flag-circuits" /></a></div></span> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-front-page-identifier"> <div class="field-content node-content-type-byline">FEATURED UPDATE</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-entity-title"> <span class="field-content"><h3><a href="/deeplinks/2025/07/just-banning-minors-social-media-not-protecting-them">Just Banning Minors From Social Media Is Not Protecting Them</a> </h3> </span> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-body"> <div class="field-content">By publishing its guidelines under Article 28 of the Digital Services Act , the European Commission has taken a major step towards social media bans that will undermine privacy, expression, and participation rights for young people that are already enshrined in international human rights law. EFF recently submitted feedback to the Commission’s consultation on the guidelines, emphasizing a critical point: Online safety for young people must include privacy and security for them and must not come at the expense of...</div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd views-row-last"> <div class="views-field views-field-content-thumbnail"> <span class="field-content"><div class="teaser-thumbnail"><a href="/deeplinks/2025/07/zero-knowledge-proofs-alone-are-not-digital-id-solution-protecting-user-privacy"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/feature/public/banner_library/digitallicense_mobileid.png?itok=lYLrn0L4" width="780" height="390" alt="Mobile ID digital license" /></a></div></span> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-front-page-identifier"> <div class="field-content node-content-type-byline">FEATURED UPDATE</div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-entity-title"> <span class="field-content"><h3><a href="/deeplinks/2025/07/zero-knowledge-proofs-alone-are-not-digital-id-solution-protecting-user-privacy">Zero Knowledge Proofs Alone Are Not a Digital ID Solution to Protecting User Privacy</a> </h3> </span> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-body"> <div class="field-content">In the past few years, governments across the world have rolled out digital identification options, and now there are efforts encouraging online companies to implement identity and age verification requirements with digital ID in mind. This blog is the first in this short series that will explain digital ID and the pending use case of age verification. The following posts will evaluate what real protections we can implement with current digital ID frameworks and discuss how better privacy and controls...</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="panel-pane pane-custom pane-2"> <div data-form-id="6e937ff0-816d-f011-bec2-00224804004a" data-form-api-url="https://public-usa.mkt.dynamics.com/api/v1.0/orgs/94400758-7964-ef11-a66d-6045bd003934/landingpageforms" data-cached-form-url="https://assets-usa.mkt.dynamics.com/94400758-7964-ef11-a66d-6045bd003934/digitalassets/forms/6e937ff0-816d-f011-bec2-00224804004a"></div> <script src="https://cxppusa1formui01cdnsa01-endpoint.azureedge.net/usa/FormLoader/FormLoader.bundle.js"></script> </div> <div class="panel-pane pane-views pane-featured-homepage-content pane-featured-homepage-projects"> <div class="view view-featured-homepage-content view-id-featured_homepage_content view-display-id-featured_projects view-dom-id-d1fb67ae74ffcb1c14a94570eda4ea32"> <div class="view-content"> <div 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class="node__content"> <div class="eff-translation-links"></div><div class="field field--name-field-issue-term field--type-entityreference field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><div class="taxonomy-term--issues taxonomy-term--term-teaser taxonomy-term--issues--term-teaser"> <div class="taxonomy-term__content"> <div class="field field--name-description-field field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>ترتبط العدالة الإنتاجية والوصول الآمن للإجهاض، كالعديد من الجوانب الأخرى لإدارة رعايتنا الصحية، مرتبطة بشكل أساسي بحياتنا الرقمية. مع قرار دوبز ڤي جاكسون بإلغاء الحماية التي وفرها روي ڤي وايد للأشخاص الذين يسعون للحصول على الرعاية الصحية المتعلقة بالإجهاض، والتي كانت من المعلومات الحميدة قبلا، أصبحت اليوم دليلًا جنائيًا محتملًا. هذا التهديد الموسع للحقوق الرقمية خطير بشكل خاص على الأشخاص السود، السكان الأصليون/ات وذوي البشرة الملونة، وذوي الدخل المنخفض، والمهاجرين/ات، وأفراد مجتمع الميم – عين وغيرهم من المجتمعات المهمشة تقليديًا، ومقدمي الرعاية الصحية الذين يخدمون هذه المجتمعات.في هذه الصفحة، قمنا بتجميع أدلة خصوصية البيانات لأي شخص من المحتمل أن يتأثر: أولئك الذين يسعون للحصول على الرعاية الصحية والعيادات والمهنيين/ات الصحيين/ات المتعلقة بالإجهاض، وكذلك أولئك المشاركين/ات في حركات مناصرة الوصول إلى الإجهاض الآمن. ترتبط هذه الصفحة أيضًا بمساعي وتوصيات منظمة الجبهة الالكترونية إلى الهيئات التشريعية والشركات من أجل حماية أفضل للحقوق الرقمية للأشخاص الذين يحتاجون ويقدمون الرعاية الصحية الإنجابية.شاهد هذا الفيديو القصير حول الأمن الرقمي لحركة الوصول الآمن للإجهاض:</p></div></div></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd views-row-last"> <article role="article" class="node node--link node--highlight node--link--highlight"> <header> <div class="field field--name-field-banner-graphic field--type-image field--label-above"><div class="field__label">Banner Graphic: </div><div class="field__items"><div 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class="panel-pane pane-views pane-updates"> <h2 class="pane-title">The Latest</h2> <div class="view view-updates view-id-updates view-display-id-updates_block teaser-feed view-dom-id-797eea997fb8108a375c2e4a3c7fcf9b"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first"> <article role="article" class="node node--blog node--promoted node-teaser node--teaser node--blog--teaser"> <header> <div class="field field--name-field-banner-graphic field--type-image field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><div class="teaser-thumbnail"><a href="/deeplinks/2025/07/teched-collab-building-community-arizona-around-tech-awareness"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/teaser/public/banner_library/efa-starburst-banner.png?itok=lmEi69tm" width="500" height="250" alt="EFA Banner " /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="node-content-type-byline blog"><a href="/updates?type=blog">Deeplinks Blog</a> <span class="node-author"> by <a href="/about/staff/chris-vines">Christopher Vines</a></span> <span class="node-date"> | July 31, 2025</span> </div> <h3 class="node__title"><a href="/deeplinks/2025/07/teched-collab-building-community-arizona-around-tech-awareness" rel="bookmark">TechEd Collab: Building Community in Arizona Around Tech Awareness</a></h3> </header> <div class="node__content"> <div class="eff-translation-links"></div><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>Earlier this year, EFF welcomed <a href="https://techedcollab.org/home/">Technology Education Collaborative (TEC)</a> into the Electronic Frontier Alliance <a href="https://efa.eff.org/">(EFA)</a>. TEC empowers everyday people to become informed users of today's extraordinary technology, and helps people better understand the tech that surrounds them on a daily basis. TEC does this by hosting in-person, hands-on...</p></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-2 views-row-even"> <article role="article" class="node node--blog node--promoted node-teaser node--teaser node--blog--teaser"> <header> <div class="field field--name-field-banner-graphic field--type-image field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><div class="teaser-thumbnail"><a href="/deeplinks/2025/07/amazon-ring-back-mass-surveillance-game-effector-379"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/teaser/public/banner_library/effector_banner_5.jpeg?itok=AxQShL-D" width="500" height="250" alt="" /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="node-content-type-byline blog"><a href="/updates?type=blog">Deeplinks Blog</a> <span class="node-author"> by <a href="/about/staff/christian-romero-0">Christian Romero</a></span> <span class="node-date"> | July 30, 2025</span> </div> <h3 class="node__title"><a href="/deeplinks/2025/07/amazon-ring-back-mass-surveillance-game-effector-379" rel="bookmark">👮 Amazon Ring Is Back in the Mass Surveillance Game | EFFector 37.9</a></h3> </header> <div class="node__content"> <div class="eff-translation-links"></div><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>EFF is gearing up to beat the heat in Las Vegas for the summer security conferences! Before we make our journey to the Strip, we figured let's get y'all up-to-speed with a <a href="https://eff.org/effector/37/9">new edition of EFFector</a>.This time we're covering an <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/when-your-power-meter-becomes-tool-mass-surveillance">illegal mass surveillance scheme</a> by the Sacramento Municipal...</p></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd"> <article role="article" class="node node--blog node--promoted node-teaser node--teaser node--blog--teaser"> <header> <div class="field field--name-field-banner-graphic field--type-image field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><div class="teaser-thumbnail"><a href="/deeplinks/2025/07/podcast-episode-smashing-tech-oligarchy"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/teaser/public/banner_library/2025-htfi-kara-blog.png?itok=wElGdSfu" width="500" height="250" alt="How to Fix the Internet - Kara Swisher - Smashing the Tech Oligarchy" title="How to Fix the Internet - Kara Swisher - Smashing the Tech Oligarchy" /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="node-content-type-byline blog"><a href="/updates?type=blog">Deeplinks Blog</a> <span class="node-author"> by <a href="/about/staff/josh-richman-0">Josh Richman</a></span> <span class="node-date"> | July 30, 2025</span> </div> <h3 class="node__title"><a href="/deeplinks/2025/07/podcast-episode-smashing-tech-oligarchy" rel="bookmark">Podcast Episode: Smashing the Tech Oligarchy</a></h3> </header> <div class="node__content"> <div class="eff-translation-links"></div><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>Many of the internet’s thorniest problems can be attributed to the concentration of power in a few corporate hands: the surveillance capitalism that makes it profitable to invade our privacy, the lack of algorithmic transparency that turns artificial intelligence and other tech into impenetrable black boxes, the rent-seeking behavior that...</p></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-4 views-row-even"> <article role="article" class="node node--blog node--promoted node-teaser node--teaser node--blog--teaser"> <header> <div class="field field--name-field-banner-graphic field--type-image field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><div class="teaser-thumbnail"><a href="/deeplinks/2025/07/ryanairs-cfaa-claim-against-bookingcom-has-nothing-do-actual-hacking"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/teaser/public/banner_library/og-governmenthacking_0.png?itok=1-mwp9To" width="500" height="250" alt="" /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="node-content-type-byline blog"><a href="/updates?type=blog">Deeplinks Blog</a> <span class="node-author"> by <a href="/about/staff/thorin-klosowski-0">Thorin Klosowski</a></span> <span class="node-date"> | July 29, 2025</span> </div> <h3 class="node__title"><a href="/deeplinks/2025/07/ryanairs-cfaa-claim-against-bookingcom-has-nothing-do-actual-hacking" rel="bookmark">Ryanair’s CFAA Claim Against Booking.com Has Nothing To Do with Actual Hacking</a></h3> </header> <div class="node__content"> <div class="eff-translation-links"></div><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) is supposed to be about attacks on computer systems. It is not, as a federal district court suggested in <i>Ryanair v. Booking.com</i>, applicable when someone uses valid login credentials to access information to which those credentials provide access. Now that the case is...</p></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-5 views-row-odd"> <article role="article" class="node node--blog node--promoted node-teaser node--teaser node--blog--teaser"> <header> <div class="field field--name-field-banner-graphic field--type-image field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><div class="teaser-thumbnail"><a href="/deeplinks/2025/07/you-went-drag-show-now-state-florida-wants-your-name"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/teaser/public/banner_library/police-surveillance-badge.jpg?itok=J4jDmiqW" width="500" height="250" alt="A hand holds up a police badge with spying eye" /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="node-content-type-byline blog"><a href="/updates?type=blog">Deeplinks Blog</a> <span class="node-author"> by <a href="/about/staff/rindala-alajaji">Rindala Alajaji</a></span> <span class="node-date"> | July 28, 2025</span> </div> <h3 class="node__title"><a href="/deeplinks/2025/07/you-went-drag-show-now-state-florida-wants-your-name" rel="bookmark">You Went to a Drag Show—Now the State of Florida Wants Your Name</a></h3> </header> <div class="node__content"> <div class="eff-translation-links"></div><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even">EFF has long warned about this kind of mission creep: where a law or policy supposedly aimed at public safety is turned into a tool for political retaliation or mass surveillance. Going to a drag show should not mean you forfeit your anonymity. It should not open you up to...</div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-6 views-row-even"> <article role="article" class="node node--blog node--promoted node-teaser node--teaser node--blog--teaser"> <header> <div class="field field--name-field-banner-graphic field--type-image field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><div class="teaser-thumbnail"><a href="/deeplinks/2025/07/just-banning-minors-social-media-not-protecting-them"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/teaser/public/banner_library/eu-flag-11.png?itok=4rTTB4mQ" width="500" height="250" alt="EU-flag-circuits" /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="node-content-type-byline blog"><a href="/updates?type=blog">Deeplinks Blog</a> <span class="node-author"> by <a href="/about/staff/svea-windwehr">Svea Windwehr</a>, <a href="/about/staff/jillian-york">Jillian C. York</a>, <a href="/about/staff/christoph-schmon">Christoph Schmon</a></span> <span class="node-date"> | July 28, 2025</span> </div> <h3 class="node__title"><a href="/deeplinks/2025/07/just-banning-minors-social-media-not-protecting-them" rel="bookmark">Just Banning Minors From Social Media Is Not Protecting Them</a></h3> </header> <div class="node__content"> <div class="eff-translation-links"></div><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>By publishing its <a href="https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/commission-publishes-guidelines-protection-minors">guidelines under Article 28 of the Digital Services Act</a>, the European Commission has taken a major step towards social media bans that will undermine privacy, expression, and participation rights for young people that are already enshrined in international human rights law. EFF recently submitted <a href="https://www.eff.org/files/2025/06/16/eff_submission_art._28_dsa_guidlines.pdf">feedback</a>...</p></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-7 views-row-odd"> <article role="article" class="node node--blog node--promoted node-teaser node--teaser node--blog--teaser"> <header> <div class="field field--name-field-banner-graphic field--type-image field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><div class="teaser-thumbnail"><a href="/deeplinks/2025/07/zero-knowledge-proofs-alone-are-not-digital-id-solution-protecting-user-privacy"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/teaser/public/banner_library/digitallicense_mobileid.png?itok=Gfdh4Ady" width="500" height="250" alt="Mobile ID digital license" /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="node-content-type-byline blog"><a href="/updates?type=blog">Deeplinks Blog</a> <span class="node-author"> by <a href="/about/staff/alexis-hancock">Alexis Hancock</a>, <a href="/about/staff/paige-collings">Paige Collings</a></span> <span class="node-date"> | July 25, 2025</span> </div> <h3 class="node__title"><a href="/deeplinks/2025/07/zero-knowledge-proofs-alone-are-not-digital-id-solution-protecting-user-privacy" rel="bookmark">Zero Knowledge Proofs Alone Are Not a Digital ID Solution to Protecting User Privacy</a></h3> </header> <div class="node__content"> <div class="eff-translation-links"></div><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p><i>In the past few years, governments across the world have </i><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/digital-id-isnt-everybody-and-thats-okay" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i>rolled out digital identification</i></a><i> options, and now there are efforts encouraging online companies to implement identity and age verification requirements with digital ID in mind. This blog is the first in this short series that will</i>...</p></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-8 views-row-even"> <article role="article" class="node node--blog node--promoted node-teaser node--teaser node--blog--teaser"> <header> <div class="field field--name-field-banner-graphic field--type-image field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><div class="teaser-thumbnail"><a href="/deeplinks/2025/07/canadas-bill-c-2-opens-floodgates-us-surveillance"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/teaser/public/banner_library/keys-crossed-pink-starburst_0.png?itok=O4q9x2Mf" width="500" height="250" alt="" /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="node-content-type-byline blog"><a href="/updates?type=blog">Deeplinks Blog</a> <span class="node-author"> by <a href="/about/staff/joe-mullin">Joe Mullin</a></span> <span class="node-date"> | July 25, 2025</span> </div> <h3 class="node__title"><a href="/deeplinks/2025/07/canadas-bill-c-2-opens-floodgates-us-surveillance" rel="bookmark">Canada’s Bill C-2 Opens the Floodgates to U.S. Surveillance</a></h3> </header> <div class="node__content"> <div class="eff-translation-links"></div><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>The Canadian government is preparing to give away Canadians’ digital lives—to U.S. police, to the Donald Trump administration, and possibly to foreign spy agencies.<a href="https://www.parl.ca/Content/Bills/451/Government/C-2/C-2_1/C-2_1.PDF">Bill C-2</a>, the so-called Strong Borders Act, is a sprawling surveillance bill with <a href="https://openmedia.org/press/item/over-300-organizations-unite-to-demand-complete-withdrawal-of-bill-c-2">multiple privacy-invasive provisions</a>. But the thrust is clear: it’s a roadmap to...</p></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-9 views-row-odd"> <article role="article" class="node node--blog node--promoted node-teaser node--teaser node--blog--teaser"> <header> <div class="field field--name-field-banner-graphic field--type-image field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><div class="teaser-thumbnail"><a href="/deeplinks/2025/07/you-shouldnt-have-make-your-social-media-public-get-visa"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/teaser/public/banner_library/social-media-surveillance-1b_0.jpg?itok=kl46Um9-" width="500" height="250" alt="Security camera screens display logos for Facebook, YouTube, SnapChat, Twitter, and Reddit " /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="node-content-type-byline blog"><a href="/updates?type=blog">Deeplinks Blog</a> <span class="node-author"> by <a href="/about/staff/elizabeth-lisa-femia">Lisa Femia</a>, <a href="/about/staff/sophia-cope">Sophia Cope</a></span> <span class="node-date"> | July 23, 2025</span> </div> <h3 class="node__title"><a href="/deeplinks/2025/07/you-shouldnt-have-make-your-social-media-public-get-visa" rel="bookmark">You Shouldn’t Have to Make Your Social Media Public to Get a Visa</a></h3> </header> <div class="node__content"> <div class="eff-translation-links"></div><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>The Trump administration is <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/trump-administrations-targeting-international-students-jeopardizes-free-speech-and">continuing</a> <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/eff-department-homeland-security-no-social-media-surveillance-immigrants">its</a> <a href="https://www.justsecurity.org/114607/how-dhss-new-social-media-vetting-policies-threaten-free-speech/">dangerous push</a> to surveil and suppress foreign students’ social media activity. The State Department recently <a href="https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/06/announcement-of-expanded-screening-and-vetting-for-visa-applicants/">announced</a> an unprecedented new requirement that applicants for student and exchange visas must set all social media accounts to “public” for government review. The State...</p></div></div></div> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-10 views-row-even views-row-last"> <article role="article" class="node node--blog node--promoted node-teaser node--teaser node--blog--teaser"> <header> <div class="field field--name-field-banner-graphic field--type-image field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><div class="teaser-thumbnail"><a href="/deeplinks/2025/07/future-worth-fighting"><img src="https://www.eff.org/files/styles/teaser/public/banner_library/circuit-city-og-static.png?itok=0BnswjCW" width="500" height="250" alt="Green EFF 35th Anniversary digital cityscape on a black background." /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="node-content-type-byline blog"><a href="/updates?type=blog">Deeplinks Blog</a> <span class="node-author"> by <a href="/about/staff/christian-romero-0">Christian Romero</a></span> <span class="node-date"> | July 22, 2025</span> </div> <h3 class="node__title"><a href="/deeplinks/2025/07/future-worth-fighting" rel="bookmark">We're Envisioning A Better Future</a></h3> </header> <div class="node__content"> <div class="eff-translation-links"></div><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even">From people soaring through the sky, to space cats, geometric unicorns, and (so many) mechas—our team is always imagining what the future could look like when we get things right. 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