Articles by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Kazakhstan must ensure impartiality of actions towards Mateyev
A joint letter to Kazakhstan’s President Nazarbayev calling for review of recent state actions towards Seytkazy Matayev and the National Press Club.
Asia Pacific: A win for net neutrality, a devastating setback for press freedom
A breakdown of the events that are changing the free expression landscape in Asia and the Pacific.
Apple is backed by Americans in battle with FBI
While the FBI has framed its demand as addressing a single phone, it has failed to address concerns that the implementation of the order would necessarily place at risk the security of millions of other devices and the people who use them.
White House’s plans for privacy council fall short
While seeming to offer some promise, the newly proposed federal interagency privacy council has a limited mandate, and ultimately represents an overdue nod to privacy principles the Obama administration has repeatedly abused in practice.
Medium’s sitewide encryption confronts censorship in Malaysia
Blogging platform Medium is now blocked in Malaysia, apparently in an effort to censor an investigative news outlet critical of the government.
Twitter’s policy reboot: The good, the bad, and the ugly
On 6 January 2016, Twitter announced that it is updating their rules to clarify what it considers to be “abusive behavior and hateful conduct”. A side-by-side comparison of the Twitter Rules on December 27, 2015 and today shows considerable changes.
On the anniversary of Charlie Hebdo, dissenting voices must be protected
Civil society groups mark the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attack by calling on governments worldwide to fulfill their obligation to protect freedom of expression.
U.S. school district embraces Google Chromebooks, but at what cost?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation presents a case study of a California father fighting his daughter’s school district over digital privacy.