Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Whistleblower and activist Chelsea Manning, Techdirt editor and open internet advocate Mike Masnick, and IFEX executive director and global freedom of expression defender Annie Game are the distinguished winners of the 2017 Pioneer Awards, which recognize leaders who are extending freedom and innovation on the electronic frontier.

“All fair-minded people must stand against the hateful violence and aggression that seems to be growing across our country. But we must also recognize that on the Internet, any tactic used now to silence neo-Nazis will soon be used against others, including people whose opinions we agree with.”

In a report called “The Pregnancy Panopticon”, EFF and Gizmodo reporter Kashmir Hill examine some of the privacy and security properties of nearly twenty different fertility and pregnancy tracking applications.

The baseless prosecution of these human rights defenders highlights the decline of Turkey’s democratic institutions. EFF continues to urge the Turkish authorities to listen to a chorus of countries and international organizations, and to free all ten victims of this profound injustice immediately.

On the one-year anniversary of the death of popular Cambodian activist Kem Ley, civil society organisations from around the world reiterated their call for an independent inquiry.

ARTICLE 19 and 82 other organisations urge “Five Eyes” to support the development and use of secure communications tools and technologies and reject policies that would prevent or undermine the use of strong encryption.

NGOs around the world ask authorities to stop campaigns of repression against HRDs and civil society organisations in the Middle East and North Africa region

The singling out of Qatar has as much to do with alleged support of terrorism as it does with a desire to shutter Al Jazeera.