Rindala Alajaji, Tori Noble, Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, and Hayley Tsukayama · Sep 18, 2026
Govern the harms already happening
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The authors urge California to address discrimination and surveillance now. They support loss-of-control reporting, want third-party investigations available to smaller developers, and warn that government shutdown powers could be abused.
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Original source
Electronic Frontier Foundation · Deeplinks statement
Original source date: Sep 18, 2026 (2026-09-18).
Date basis: article:published_time 2026-09-18T16:25:44-07:00.
HTML fetched 2026-09-23. The executive order was not fetched.
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Limits
An advocacy statement. Its examples do not establish a harm rate, and the executive order itself was not analyzed here.
Editorial test, not a stated concession
If the order's concrete reporting duties reduced documented harms without cutting off smaller developers, the warning about design would get narrower.
supports
EFF identifies current harms, supports incident reporting, and separately asks that smaller developers have access to third-party investigations.
qualifies
The statement welcomes the order while warning that government-controlled shutdown powers could be used against protected speech.
Source and contributor context
Rindala Alajaji, Tori Noble, Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, and Hayley Tsukayama · Listed authors of the EFF statement
Writing an EFF Deeplinks statement on a state executive order. This record does not split the sentences among them.
An advocacy statement about California policy. It does not establish the prevalence of the harms it names.
Declared interests are limited to the records linked here; absence of a record does not establish absence of an interest.
Assumptions
Editorial reconstruction: naming a present harm is not the same as measuring how often it occurs.
Source media
Media retrieval status: found.
Questions between perspectives
Editorial comparison; no direct exchange established: Who, besides a state executive, can challenge an automated decision already affecting someone?
Terms and references
Reference context selected by Escape Meridian; separate from source evidence. Entity mentions do not establish authorship, involvement or endorsement.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation advocates for digital rights through litigation, technical work and public policy.
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