Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Now that the entire agreement is published, we can see how various chapters of the agreement contain harmful rules that undermine our rights online and over our digital devices and content.

Syria’s authorities have yet to disclose the whereabouts of Bassel Khartabil, a software developer and defender of freedom of information, one month after his transfer to an undisclosed location, 22 organisations said on 4 November 2015. Syrian authorities should immediately reveal his whereabouts and release him.

Open access isn’t explicitly covered in any of the secretive trade negotiations that are currently underway, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), and the Trade In Services Agreement (TISA). But that doesn’t mean that they won’t have a negative impact on those seeking to publish or use open access materials.

On 5 October 2015, trade officials announced they had reached a final deal on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which affects 800 million Internet users’ rights to free expression, privacy, and access to knowledge online.

It’s not just those who speak out who are sent to jail. Increasingly, EFF has seen coders, designers, makers, and hackers detained or threatened with prison for their work protecting or enhancing free expression and privacy.

Courts have long recognized that the First Amendment protects parodies. EFF has filed a brief urging a Michigan state court of appeals to apply the same protections to parodies posted on Twitter as to parodies everywhere else.

The “New York Times” recently confirmed a rumour that Apple has been involved in a dispute with the U.S. Department of Justice regarding iMessage encryption.

In an effort to promote tolerance and equality in Argentina, online censorship could become a reality. Argentina’s House of Representatives is currently debating a series of reforms to the National Anti-discrimination Act, a bill that was enacted in 1988.