Articles by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Saudi Arabia: Where jailing a blogger for his views isn’t punishment enough
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.
Drones and CCTVs for everyone: Surveillance tech expands across Latin America
By leaping so confidently into a surveillance state, Latin America’s pioneers of drone and CCTV technology risk the civil liberties of their citizens, and are setting a terrible precedent for their neighbours.
Facing the challenge of online harassment
Online harassment is a digital rights issue. At its worst, it causes real and lasting harms to its targets, a fact that must be central to any discussion of harassment.
Paraguayans rise up against mandatory data retention
Paraguay’s ex-dictator, Alfredo Stroessner, maintained his grip on power with the help of “pyragues”, informers who monitored the civilian population on his behalf. That’s why so many in the country recognise the dangers in its new proposed data retention bill.
On Human Rights Day, remember jailed human rights defenders
Join the global campaign for Alaa Abd El Fattah, Bassel Khartabil and so many others who have been unjustly imprisoned because of their activism. Sign this statement demanding their release, and send a tweet using the hashtags #FreeAlaa and #FreeBassel to show your support.
Copyright law as a tool for State censorship of the Internet
If the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is U.S. law, how can governments around the world use it to censor speech?
Detekt: New malware detection tool can expose illegitimate state surveillance
Detekt is an easy-to-use, open source tool that allows users to check their Windows PCs for signs of infection by surveillance malware that we know is being used by government to spy on activists and journalists.
FBI’s letter to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. reveals dangers of unchecked surveillance
The letter, recently discovered by historian and professor Beverly Gage, is a disturbing document, demonstrating what happens when the intelligence community takes the fruits of their surveillance and unleashes it on a target.