Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

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.

A Draft Online Regulation Policy would give authorities control over films and games distributed online, as well as publications containing loosely-described forms of sex, violence and hate speech.

Charged under the Sedition Act in Malaysia, internationally known political cartoonist Zunar could face 43 years in jail for a tweet.

Experts at the UN warn of both the substance of agreements like the TPP and the secretive, corporate-dominated process.

A federal appeals court has ruled that the NSA’s bulk collection of phone records is illegal, saying Congress didn’t authorize collection of a ”staggering” amount of information on Americans.

The Canadian system should rule out the possibility that content will be removed from the Internet without human review, but copyright holders have found ways around it.