Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

The massive new database will include biometric and biographic records, alongside information about people’s private relationships. So why do we know so little about it?

A handful of social media and app store platforms have emerged as leaders in transparency, publicly disclosing how often and why they comply with takedown requests.

After the historic vote in the Senate, it’s time to win in the House of Representatives. While many think the uphill battle there makes it a lost cause, EFF argues that together we can keep the Internet free and open.

Serving an estimated 40 million Iranians, Telegram is crucial to accessing information in the country and must be unblocked.

Offline/Online is a series of visuals by Onlinecensorship.org that explores how marginalized communities –often faced with persecution and violence offline –also face censorship on social media.

The FBI’s legal fight with Apple in 2016 to create backdoor access to a San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone was more focused on creating legal precedent than it was on accessing the one specific device.

Nearly 100 rights groups asked the Council of Europe to engage civil society in their negotiation of a second cybercrime convention protocol, which is aimed at setting the terms for data access by law enforcement to servers outside their geographic authority.

The goal of this post is not to assess which messenger provides the best “security” features by certain technical standards, but to help you think about precisely the kind of security you need.