Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Diego Gomez, 26, a Master’s student who researches biodiversity shared a research paper that he had used in his own work, online for others in his field to access. The author of the paper then filed a lawsuit over the “violation of [his] economic and related rights.”

July 10 marks one year since EFF and a coalition of hundreds of experts and human rights activists put the finishing touches on the Necessary and Proportionate Principles. A recently published version of the Principles incorporates the feedback received over the past year.

IFEX members reflect on the broader implications of “The Right to be Forgotten” ruling, which allows individuals to demand that embarrassing information about themselves be removed from search engine results.

There is such secrecy around the TPP trade talks that there will be no room for members of civil society or the public to engage directly with negotiators and influence the outcome of decisions on copyright and other matters.

Visit SFRedbook.com, MyPinkBook.com, or MyRedBook.com right now, and you’ll only find the seals of the law enforcement agencies—the FBI, the DOJ, and the IRS—seized the sites as part of a prostitution and money laundering investigation. The seizure is an attack on the rights to free speech and free association exercised by a diverse group of people.

Twitter’s initial decision to remove content was criticised by a wide swath of civil society, from advocacy group Bolo Bhi in Pakistan to porn actress Belle Knox, whose photos were among the blocked content.

Thai authorities are deceiving Internet users into disclosing their personal details, including email addresses and Facebook profile information, when they try to visit prohibited sites.

On May 25, 2014, a Vietnamese blogger and human rights activist, Tran Thi Nga, was seriously injured during a violent attack in Hanoi.