**Electronic Frontier Foundation: Key Positions and Recommendations****Main****Introduction*** EFF is a leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world.* Challenges include: surveillance, encryption and cybersecurity, consumer privacy, artificial intelligence, broadband, and internet law.**Theme 1: Surveillance*** Excessive government surveillance without transparency or accountability.* Urge support for FISA reforms to increase transparency and reduce government overreach.* Oppose Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) reauthorization unless significant reforms are made.* Support legislation requiring police to obtain a warrant for cell phone and facial recognition searches.* Ban law enforcement from sending geofence warrants to corporate holders of location data.**Theme 2: Encryption and Cybersecurity*** Encryption is essential for privacy and security in the digital age.* Support companies providing strong encryption to users.* Oppose government efforts to weaken or undermine encryption.* Oppose law enforcement demands for \u201cbackdoors\u201d in encrypted systems.* Oppose legislation or regulation requiring companies to allow \u201cextraordinary access\u201d to law enforcement.**Theme 3: Consumer Privacy*** Consumers have a right to control their personal data.* Support comprehensive consumer data privacy legislation with strong enforcement mechanisms.* Oppose exemptions for particular industries.* Encourage strong and transparent data security standards.**Theme 4: Artificial Intelligence*** AI can provide benefits but raises ethical concerns.* Implement AI deployment policies with transparency, algorithmic fairness, and privacy protections.* Prohibit discriminatory uses of AI.* Regulate use of AI in law enforcement and criminal justice.**Theme 5: Broadband*** Access to broadband is essential for modern society.* Support federal funding for universal fiber-to-the-home broadband access.* Promote net neutrality to ensure fair access to all online content.* Oppose network usage fees that stifle innovation.**Additional Policy Positions*** Oppose Section 230 reforms that would limit platform immunity.* Support legislation to combat deepfakes, focusing on penalties for intentional dissemination of false political speech.* Prohibit mandated content moderation policies.* Protect victims of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online while balancing free speech rights.* Reform antitrust law to address competition concerns in the tech industry.* Restore balance to copyright laws to promote innovation and protect consumers.* Clarify that the first sale doctrine applies to both digital and physical copies of works.* Address the overbreadth of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).* Limit software patents to genuine innovations.* Promote transparency in patent ownership.* Ensure fair venue distribution in patent litigation.