Articles by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Life of Vietnamese activist in danger due to gross mistreatment in prison
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-US trade negotiations continue shutting out the public – when will they learn?
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.
Facebook increases its tracking reach, users have little choice in matter
Facebook expanded its ever-growing advertising and tracking reach this week with new integration between the giant social network and Atlas, an advertising platform. The company now lets advertisers target you across all of your devices.
Dubious “internet safety software” distributed by hundreds of police agencies in U.S.
As official as it looks, ComputerCOP is actually just spyware, generally bought in bulk from a New York company that appears to do nothing but market this software to local government agencies. The way ComputerCOP works is neither safe nor secure.
U.S. court lets tech company off the hook for helping China detain, torture religious minorities
At what point does a company that intentionally builds tools that are specially designed for governmental human rights abuses become liable for the use of those tools for their intended (and known) purposes?
Where books are banned, the Internet can be a lifesaver
For individuals living in countries with high levels of censorship, the Internet has become a means for circumventing restrictions on book sales.
Banned Books Week: Celebrating free expression and the open flow of information
Banned Books Week is an annual event held in the last week of September, seeking to draw attention to books being banned or challenged in libraries and schools while promoting free and open access to knowledge.
Members of Freedom Online Coalition may be using FinFisher surveillance spyware
Documents recently released by WikiLeaks have brought new evidence to the public eye that the intrusive surveillance spyware FinFisher may be in use by several members of the Freedom Online Coalition, including Mongolia, Netherlands, and Estonia.