California has one of the nation’s most comprehensive consumer data privacy laws. But it’s not always easy for people to use their privacy rights. That’s why we supported Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal’s A.B. 566 throughout the legislative session and are now asking California Governor Gavin Newsom to sign it into law. We hope you’ll join us.
Californians should urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign S.B. 524: a common-sense bill that takes important first-step reforms to regulate police reports written by generative AI. This is crucial, as watchdogs struggle to figure out where and how AI is being used in a police context.
Two dangerous patent bills—PERA and PREVAIL—are back in Congress. These bills would revive harmful patents and make it harder for the public to fight back.
The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) would overturn key Supreme Court decisions that currently protect us from patents on the most basic internet software, and even human genes. This would open the floodgates to vague, overbroad claims on simple, widely used web features—exactly the kind of patents that patent trolls exploit.
The PREVAIL Act would gut the inter partes review (IPR) process, one of the most effective tools for challenging bad patents. It would ban many public interest groups, including EFF, from filing challenges.
Privacy fears should never stand in the way of healthcare. That's why this common-sense bill will require businesses and non-governmental organizations to act responsibly with personal information concerning reproductive health care. Specifically, it restricts them from collecting, using, retaining, or disclosing reproductive health information that isn't essential to providing the service someone asks them for.
AI-generated imitations raise legitimate concerns, and Congress should consider narrowly-targeted and proportionate proposals to deal with them. Instead, some Senators have proposed the broad NO FAKES Act, which would create an expansive and confusing new intellectual property right with few real safeguard against abuse. Tell Congress to throw out the NO FAKES Act and start over.
The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is back—and it still threatens free expression online. It would let government officials pressure or sue platforms to block or remove lawful content—especially on topics like mental health, sexuality, and drug use.
To avoid liability, platforms will over-censor. When forums or support groups get deleted, it’s not just teens who lose access—we all do. KOSA will also push services to adopt invasive age verification, handing private data to companies like Clear or ID.me.
Lawmakers should reject KOSA. Tell your Senators to vote NO.
California state agencies have standard privacy guardrails around data-sharing. But the cities and counties that collect some of your most personal info? Nope. Zip. Zero. A.B. 1337 would fix that.
S.B. 690 is a corporate cover-up. Tell California lawmakers to reject it.
California’s S.B. 690 would gut long standing privacy protections and give corporations free rein to secretly surveil, record, and profit off Californians’ private moments. If passed, it would:
● Legalize corporate interception of real-time communications, location data, and device activity without consent
● Allow companies to use invasive tools like wiretaps, pen registers, and trap-and-trace devices for any “commercial business purpose”
● Remove accountability by eliminating your right to sue under California’s Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA)
● Create new risks for immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, abortion seekers, and protesters
