Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

YouTube’s summer LGTBQ restrictions. The Facebook files. CloudFlare taking down the Daily Stormer. There are much better ideas than this when it comes to fighting hate and defending democracy

A new malware campaign that can capture video and audio without mobile users’ permission has resulted in thousands of cellular phones being infected in the U.S., Canada, Germany, Lebanon and France.

The Federal Communications Commission not only abdicated its role in enforcing net neutrality, it rejected it altogether. Here’s the good news: Team Internet has plenty of paths forward.

Our Middle East and North Africa round-up spotlights Bahrain’s first military trial of civilians since 2011, a growing crackdown on members of Egypt’s LGBTQI+ community, and a new player restricting Iranians’ internet access.

The “Phish For The Future” campaign targeted digital civil liberties activists at Free Press and Fight For the Future, and appears to have been aimed at stealing credentials for various business services.

Our monthly roundup spotllghts Egypt’s latest efforts to control the media (and rainbow flags), the Kurdish referendum (and aftershocks), a campaign to tackle self-censorship in Palestine and much more.

The seizure of .cat domains is a worrying signal that the Spanish government places its own interests in quelling the Catalonian independence movement above the human rights of its citizens to access a free and open Internet.

A joint statement by the Association of Progressive Communications, IFEX and 64 co-signatories at the UN-HRC 36 warns of the threat to human rights posed by recent attacks on the right to use encryption technology, in Turkey and across the globe.