Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Join EFF on 4 April for 404 Day, a nation-wide day of action to call attention to the long-standing problem of Internet censorship in U.S. public libraries and public schools.

Getty Images – among the world’s largest providers of stock and editorial photos – has announced a major change to the way it is offering its pictures for sites to use. While welcome in some ways, the move rings alarm bells – especially from a privacy perspective.

During the 110th UN Human Rights Committee session, the Committee will review the U.S.’s human rights records. In particular, the Committee will be scrutinizing the country’s mass surveillance practices and its compliance with Article 17 on the right to privacy.

The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas has filed a motion to dismiss 11 charges against Barrett Brown in a criminal prosecution that would have had massive implications for journalism. Brown was prosecuted after he shared a link to thousands of pages of stolen documents.

The Mexican website 1dmx.org, was set up in the wake of a set of controversial December 1st 2012 protests against the inauguration of the new President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto. On December 2nd, 2013, the site disappeared offline with no prior notice.

A call for a UN mandate on privacy emerged from an expert seminar held in Geneva this week on “The Right to Privacy in the Digital Age”.

February is Black History Month and that history is intimately linked with surveillance by the federal government in the name of “national security.” Indeed, the history of surveillance in the African-American community plays an important role in the debate around spying today and in the calls for a congressional investigation into that surveillance.

It is believed that Mr. Quan’s detention is politically motivated and a reaction to his blog, where he frequently exposed human rights violations by the Vietnamese government.