Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Lots of companies publish transparency reports, but not all of them do a good job. EFF took some time to look at exactly what reddit’s report included and was impressed by what it found.

What about the 96% of the world’s population who are citizens of countries other than the U.S. – asks EFF – and who are not protected from warrantless surveillance.

Barrett Brown will serve time for posting a link to hacked credit card information when he was working as an independent journalist.

Riseup, a tech collective that provides security-minded communications to activists worldwide, sounded the alarm last month when a judge in Spain stated that the use of their email service is a practice, he believes, associated with terrorism.

Deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership have been negotiated in almost complete secrecy, enabling these agreements to include extreme copyright and other digital policy provisions.

The international community’s response to the current charges leveled against prominent activist Nabeel Rajab has been monumental in denouncing the Criminal Investigations Department and the Bahraini government for their actions.

Introducing information sharing proposals with broad liability protections, increasing penalties under the already draconian Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and potentially decreasing the protections granted to consumers under state data breach law are both unnecessary and unwelcome.

On 9 January 2015, the Saudi government began carrying out a public flogging against blogger Raif Badawi, sentenced to 10 years in jail for his online political activism.