My team uncovered that foreign enemies are targeting U.S. servicemembers in war zones by buying their location data. The threat to national security posed by data brokers has never been more clear. We need to dismantle the surveillance advertising industry.

"About 1 in 11 CA workers—8.9%—spends at least an hour driving to work, ranking the state third in the nation. Only Maryland (9.8%) and Georgia (9.0%) have higher rates. At the other end of the spectrum sits Nebraska, where just 3.3% of workers face such long commutes." www.ppic.org/blog/super-c...

"Nationwide, the relationship between home prices and home construction is even stronger than many Americans realize ... To bring down housing costs, cities and towns ... should loosen zoning laws to allow more multifamily homes." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Moving to Seattle makes sense. King County builds hella housing.

Every single-family house on a 4,000 or 5,000 sf parcel (the overwhelming majority of homes in the inner East Bay) should be trivially convertible by-right into 3 or 4 three-story townhouses. This is exactly what happened in Houston.

2025 was a big year for new California housing laws to build more homes faster. 2026 is shaping up to be another big year, with many proposed state laws to lower fees and remove other financial barriers to building. 🐻🏙️

they are calling it the perfect summary of the "keep men out of women's sports" movement

Austin built 120,000 homes in a decade, rents dropped 6%, more than any other large US city. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

EFF's Deputy Legal Director/Free Speech and Transparency Litigation Director, @aaronmackey.bsky.social, gave testimony to the CA Assembly, urging the Judiciary Committee to vote 'no' on AB 1709. This attack on the First Amendment rights of young people and adult users must be stopped.

The housing crisis is echoing across the nation. Our BUILD plan is one of the most comprehensive to tackle it — making it easier, faster, and more effective to build homes here.

i think folks might be unfamiliar with "the pharisees", so let's make it clear: he's saying the jews run the press, and that they are conspiring to undermine the military. it's not just antisemitism, it's indistinguishable from nazism.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Reporting for duty 🫡

We’re getting the housing supply up so your costs come down. By partnering with the Ontario government, we’ll cut development charges by up to 50%, lower taxes on new homes, and build new transit infrastructure.

There were more traffic deaths than homicides in 2025. I’m running to make LA streets safer for everyone!

Cameras embedded in glasses introduce all sorts of new privacy problems. Here's a framework for thinking about them. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Targeted advertising gives your location to the government—just ask CBP. eff.org/deeplinks/2...

“Imminent.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

It should become California's rallying cry, that we will build up our cities so anyone can find safe refuge here.

Part of the myth of Ring is that this is MY camera on MY door--but when you see a map and realize that there are a hundred in your neighborhood and they're all connected by a corporation that serves the police, the illusion dissolves.

Just unveiled the Building Up IL Developments (BUILD) plan and gathered a group to talk about housing in our state. The consensus? We need to build more and fast. Looking forward to getting it out to communities across Illinois.

Now more than ever, people have seen the real-world risk of invasive face recognition technology. We won’t lose focus. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

San Diego rents fall 5.5%—proof that building housing works. Add 6,000 apartments, prices drop. This eases pressure on voucher programs, helps low-income renters, makes the city more accessible. Want sustained affordability? Keep building. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/02/04/r...

A lot of residential only zoning in California traces back to anti Chinese laundry services and general anti saloon politics.

With minor tweaks, Amazon Ring’s tool to search for lost dogs could be used to track people www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

ICE OUT NOW

ICE and CBP face-scanned 100,000 people last year. So EFF is proud to support Senator Markey’s “ICE Out of My Face Act,” which will stop these agencies’ biometric surveillance. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

There is exactly *one* big city mayor in the Bay Area who supported SB79, the holy grail of YIMBY housing reforms. It was Barbara Lee. No other big city mayor in the Bay Area chose to do so. Do with that information what you will.

This is a lot of the Bay Area's urban core.

In "Privacy's Defender," @eff.org Director Cindy Cohn chronicles her career protecting our right to digital privacy through 3 key legal battles, weaving her story with the history of Crypto Wars, FBI gag orders, and the post-9/11 surveillance state. Out March 10th: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205124...

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

Thanks to @xianleonard.bsky.social for covering our new research on local impact fees charged to new subsidized affordable housing developments in California.

I've been feeling blue about the world, so to cheer me up, my friend and I did some DIY benching. There are new & improved community AC Transit bus benches at: 6 : Telegraph & Wesbter @ Whole Foods 6 : Telegraph & Woolsey @ Smokehouse 12 : MLK & University @ Trader Joes 27 : Ashby & Shattuck

@ZohranKMamdani.bsky.social calls for modernizing environmental review “to deliver an affordability agenda on the timetable needed.” “We cannot address our housing crisis without making it easier to build in NYC.”

In crazy political times, good things are still happening in local governments across America! As we head into 2026, I’m excited about all the communities that are reimagining what a city can be open.substack.com/pub/jeremyl/...

Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera. Here's 404 Media's guide to the PR team at Meta: www.404media.co/whats-the-di...

Showing yet again that he has no interest in making people’s lives better & more affordable, Trump throws down with the NIMBYs & against building the millions of homes we need. Housing costs are a key driver of the affordability crisis. Trump just doesn’t get it.

Leila Bozorg is great and was literally a board member of Open New York, the largest YIMBY nonprofit in NYC. this is so awesome. NIMBYs in shambles rn

If you’re serious about prioritizing people over profit, pass a comprehensive consumer data privacy law that protects everyone from exploitive corporate surveillance.

I want to make it easier to build childcare for families who need it Since writing about the barriers to childcare, I’ve gotten some pretty amazing hate mail from people who can’t stand the sound of children playing. Enjoy! jeremyl.substack.com/p/nimbytales...

BREAKING: @aclu-norcal.bsky.social, Lieff Cabraser, and Tobener Ravenscroft just sued San Francisco landlords over AI-powered surveillance in people's homes. Our homes are the last refuge of privacy. What happens there is none of your landlord's business. www.aclunc.org/news/aclu-su...

New vacancy chain paper:

We're thankful for Cindy Cohn and the 25 years she dedicated to EFF, ten of them as our Executive Director. She is a visionary and we can't wait to see what's next for her!

MAGA and California NIMBYs agree: if you can't afford to live here, that's your problem, and you should live in another state. The better solution: build more homes in California, including the bay area, and welcome our new neighbors.