Scary stories about teens sell. The data tells a different story. After decades studying adolescent mental health, here's what I found: This isn't an anxious generation. It's a resilient one. Let's start treating them that way. go.ted.com/candiceodgers

As governments rush to age-gate the internet, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) senior counsel David Greene argues we're skipping a vital question: not "how do we age-gate while protecting privacy?" but "should we be doing this at all?" He reflects on the issue as an expert, and as a parent.

Following the Madison Square Garden facial recognition debaucal? Tell all your favorite artists to sign this pledge to boycott venues that use facial recognition (they'll be in good company! Rage Against the Machine, Deerhoof, Mannequin Pussy already signed) banfacialrecognition.com/venues

A few years ago, lawmakers insisted that age-gating laws were intended only to keep young people from accessing porn. Now, they’re threatening to ban youth from all social media. This dramatic shift of the Overton window towards mass censorship should concern all of us. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Social media bans are unconstitutional, discriminatory, and deeply misguided. If we don’t trust tech companies with our private information now, we shouldn't pass laws that force us to give them even more of it. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

This is right on the mark: "It’s privacy-invasive, and it harms young people by denying them online free speech and access to ideas and communities that enrich their worlds and can change lives for the better."

Age verification and social media bans aren't a silver bullet for kids’ online safety - they just create more risk for kids and adults while taking decision-making power away from families where it belongs, EFF’s @mollibroccoli.bsky.social told @sfchronicle.com.

I've been warning about this moment for two decades over at Techdirt The U.S. is too corrupt to regulate data brokers (and their exploitation and sale of location data) and the check has come due

MA Uber and Lyft drivers formed a union! It's a historic moment for the labor movement. First they passed a right to unionize law (in 2024), then beat anti-union propaganda from the companies. App Drivers Union represents 70,000 MA ride-share drivers. www.reuters.com/business/wor...

ICE is targeting press outside Delaney Hall

California lawmakers are fast-tracking AB 1709—a sweeping bill that would ban anyone under 16 from using social media and force every user, regardless of age, to verify their identity before accessing social platforms. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

This is awful. It's also the same as stuff I heard in the high school hallways. An unfortunate reminder that age verification and social media bans don't solve the actual problem: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”

ICE’s budget now rivals the militaries of nations around the world and that money is building an enormous domestic surveillance machine. Learn about the surveillance tactics they’re using and how you can protect yourself and your community. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Congress is about to make a huge push into online ID verification, entrenching the power of big tech and mandating that they collect even MORE data on users. Mass surveillance/censorship laws are being framed as “child safety” but they’re really abt at removing LGBTQ ppl, repro justice info, etc.

Social media is trending towards unusable (perhaps that's the point). You'll need 10 different forms of ID for the age verification that will inevitably fail. And if you somehow manage to get past that, you'll have to dodge the hundreds of mandatory warning screens tacked on to every post.

I wrote about the unprecedented mass censorship and surveillance laws that Congress is trying to ram through in the name of “protecting kids” and how none of this is about protecting kids. In fact, these laws cause great harm to all of us, for @zeteo.com

Here's an example of how useless and frustrating internet laws to "protect kids" are in practice: When I'm in Ohio, where I am during the holidays, I can't use my Bluesky DMs—unless I hand over my ID to a company owned by Epic Games. Why? To protect kids, of course! spitfirenews.com/p/why-i-have...

We just finished Day 2 of our Ask Me Anything about the risks, harms, and legality of age verification mandates. We'll be back tomorrow (12/17) from 12-5pm PT. Join us! www.reddit.com/r/privacy/c...

TELL ME MORE 😡 about how we should use driver's licenses to determine who is eligible to access the internet ??!! ! ! ! The same internet where we keep our queer resources ?!!? ! www.kut.org/politics/202...

AMA Alert! We launched EFF.org/Age, our Age Verification Resource hub, and want to talk to you about it. We’ll be on Reddit's r/privacy today, on 12/16, and on 12/17 to help you resist this censorship and surveillance nightmare. www.reddit.com/r/privacy/c...

On the blog this week, we wrote about why accessing your fundamental human right to comprehensive sexual education should not depend on where you live and featured research from our friends at @siecus.bsky.social. Read all about it: www.woodhullfoundation.org/accessing-se...

Parental controls & curfews for kids on social media “may end in the child just not having access to important creative expression outlets, important ways to connect, important ways to find even life-saving resources," EFF’s Molly Buckley told News Channel 3 WWMT-TV. wwmt.com/news/state/...

Our new Age Verification Resource Hub is live at EFF.org/Age — and next week (12/15–12/17), we’re hosting an AMA on r/privacy to talk about it. Come ask us anything about what these sweeping laws really mean for your rights and safety.

Losing anonymity online “means that personal private data is able to be collected and retained and stored and breached, maybe used by bad actors linking your identity to the sites that you visit online,” EFF’s Molly Buckley told @MichiganPublic.bsky.social. www.michiganpublic.org/politics-go...

As age getting spreads around the world, posing the most serious threat to the global free and open internet that I have ever seen, we @eff.org have launched a one-stop resource site www.eff.org/issues/age-v...

Today we’re launching EFF.org/Age, our one-stop shop to answer all your questions about online age verification mandates. What’s at stake for users? How do we push back? What even IS age verification, anyway? Visit EFF.org/Age now to explore our resources and join the fight to protect the internet.

INTRODUCING our beautiful new age verification resource hub! We at @eff.org built this to answer all of your questions about age gates and to help you make good safe decisions when this censorship and surveillance nightmare reaches you. Suuuuper proud of my little Team AV.

As more and more states roll out some form of mobile driver’s license, you might be asking yourself: should I use this thing? www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Super obvious case for the left to embrace privacy (specifically from corporate and police-state surveillance) as a core tenet of its politics

roses are red big laughs are hearty

The success of Ring is just an incredibly American story: Individualism expressed through consumer habits resulting in the voluntary creation of a national surveillance network. Add home security cameras to the list with guns, cars

Proponents claim that age verification mandates will help hold Big Tech companies accountable. But as we’re seeing in Mississippi, these laws cause smaller platforms to close and users to suffer while Big Tech reaps the rewards. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The laws requiring digital age checks — sold as child protection — are tanking the income of adult industry workers, risking their safety and even forcing them out of business.

There's "a popular misconception that age-verification mandates are going to be the best way to rein in big tech and hold them accountable," EFF's Molly Buckley told @rollingstone.com - but these laws will just further line the biggest platforms' pockets. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cul...

Back at EFF as an activist this time, not a lawyer. And just in time to watch age verification swallow up all that is good about the internet. Yay!!!!!! 🤧

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Does the new version of KOSA they're trying to cram at the last minute to the funding bill solve KOSA's first amendment problems? Ha ha no. Tell your Congressional Rep. you're not falling for this shit and neither should they. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...