16 April 2015 – During a speech delivered at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. this evening, United Nations…
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10 April 2015 – The United Nations Secretary-General, in an address in Panama to the CEO Summit of the Americas,…
WASHINGTON, April 2, 2015/African Press Organization (APO)/ — President Obama today spoke with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and separately with…
Today is the start of my last week as an employee of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. I will be leaving…
The governments of the United States and United Kingdom have warned against “deliberate political interference” in the collation of the…
We have known for some time that the U.S. intelligence and law enforcement community looks to find and exploit vulnerabilities…
Today, EFF filed a second round of comments to the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) on its…
24 March 2015 – The issue of poverty continues to remain “under the radar” for many Chilean policy-makers despite the…
Promising public access legislation FASTR (Fair Access to Science & Technology Research Act) has been re-introduced by a bipartisan coalition…
A letter sent from major tech companies and civil society groups demanded Congress end the mass collection of calling records…
This week, on the edges of RightsCon Southeast Asia in Manila, Philippines, digital rights groups from around the world came…
The United States President Barack Obama has sent a special message to the Nigerian People in preparation for the upcoming…
New ‘Best Practice’ Roadmap to Protect Rights and Promote Innovation Manila – An international coalition launched the “Manila Principles on…
Facebook recently updated its community standards. As the company noted in the announcement accompanying the change, their “policies and standards…
When does an online fantasy cross the line into criminal conspiracy? That’s the issue the Second Circuit Court of Appeals…
18 March 2015 – The Government of Haiti has made progress towards the holding of elections critical for the country’s…
Last week, the ACLU filed a welcome additional challenge to the NSA’s warrantless Internet backbone surveillance (aka “Upstream” surveillance) on…
Government agencies sure love their black markers. For transparency activists, receiving overly redacted documents is a guilty pleasure. Sure, we’d…
The Supreme Court took a major step in cutting back on abstract software patents last June when it issued its…
Last year, the current President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Junker, declared that his number one priority was to “create…