Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

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.

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.

For years, pundits and scholars have warned of the implications of social media companies capitulating to foreign governments, handing over user data or censoring content. Facebook’s latest government requests report demonstrates why.

President Barack Obama has called on the Federal Communications Commission to develop new “net neutrality” rules and establish the legal authority it needs to support those rules by reclassifying broadband service as a “telecommunications service.”

The EFF released a new report and scorecard that shows what online service providers are doing to protect users from baseless copyright and trademark complaints.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is asking Facebook to spell out, in no uncertain language, that the terms that apply to regular users apply to government agencies as well, including law enforcement.

The Vietnamese government should immediately cease the ill-treatment, physical and psychological abuse of Dang Xuan Dieu while in arbitrary detention. The activist, who is currently serving one of the longest politically motivated sentences in Vietnam, has been held in solitary confinement and subject to physical and psychological abuse.

EU and US trade officials still have not learned the more important lesson from ACTA – shutting out the public from seeing or participating in a given policymaking venue only guarantees that the public will see those resulting policies as illegitimate.