Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union argue that Americans deserve full protection of the Fourth Amendment for their telephone records.

Independent organizations in Egypt face a looming crackdown. The government has threatened to enforce a draconian associations law that became law 12 years ago, but has seldom been enforced.

Judge Paulo César de Carvalho has issued a preliminary injunction ordering the removal of Secret—an anonymous sharing application that lets people share messages with friends, friends of friends, or publicly—from the Apple App store.

Human rights organisations urge Vietnam to comply with UN and release human rights lawyer.

IFEX members and partners from around the world urge the UN to include access to information in the Agenda for the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals.

Vietnamese authorities are using so-called “opinion shapers” to send an onslaught of abuse reports to Facebook, which has then led to the taking down of Facebook pages of well-known Vietnamese activists and human rights organizations.

It appears the government is attempting to manipulate allegations of Australian citizens’ involvement in terrorist activities overseas, to justify a much broader and more intrusive domestic surveillance regime. It’s a cynical move, and one that the Australian public should not stand for.

EFF’s position on net neutrality simply calls for all data that travels over the Internet to be treated equally. This means that the organisation opposes ISPs blocking content based on its source or destination, or discriminating against certain applications, or imposing special access fees that would make it harder for small websites to reach their users.