Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

EFF, Derechos Digitales and their colleagues in the region have issued a statement to Latin American governments, demanding more transparency on how Latin American states are using — or misusing — spyware like that sold by Hacking Team.

EFF spoke to researcher Anita Gohde about the implications of her findings, which suggest that Internet shutdowns are becoming part of a toolkit for more violent repression in Syria.

As Hassan Rouhani approaches the second anniversary of his election to the presidency on August 4, the promise of future reform remains unfulfilled.

Australia’s new Internet censorship law provides an accelerated process for rightsholders to obtain court orders for ISPs to block sites that have the primary purpose of infringing copyright, or “facilitating” its infringement – a term that the law does not define.

Google, Facebook, Amazon and beyond… The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s fifth annual report looks at online service providers’ privacy and transparency practices.

Information on U.S. government takedown requests missing from Facebook’s Government Request Report. EFF urges Facebook to publish the data and show U.S. government agencies that censorship shouldn’t happen in the dark.

On 4 June the Paraguayan Senate defeated a mandatory data retention bill that would have compelled local ISPs to retain communications and location details of every user for a period of 12 months.

Like its sister agreements, TISA will enact global rules that impact the Internet, bypassing the transparency and accountability of national parliaments. The only difference is that its focus is on services, not goods.