Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

During an event at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, a coalition of civil society organisations launched a set of standards that interpret States’ human rights obligations in light of new technologies and surveillance capabilities.

Over 60 organisations signed a joint appeal to Moroccan authorities to free editor Ali Anouzla, jailed on 17 September for posting a link to an Al-Qaeda video on his news website alongside an article critical of the video.

The Director of National Intelligence has released hundreds of pages of documents related to the government’s secret interpretation of Patriot Act Section 215 and the NSA’s (mis)use of its massive database of every American’s phone records. The documents were released as a result of EFF’s ongoing Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

An online censorship law known as Decree 72 went into effect in Vietnam; it bans bloggers and users of social media from quoting, gathering, or summarising information from press organisations or government websites.

In a major victory in one of EFF’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, the Justice Department conceded that it will release hundreds of pages of documents, including FISA court opinions, related to the government’s secret interpretation of the Patriot Act.

Aggressive interpretations of the Children’s Internet Protection Act have resulted in extensive and unnecessary censorship in libraries, often because libraries go beyond the legal requirements of the law when implementing content filters.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation calls upon U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to speak out on the imprisonment of dissident blogger Eskinder Nega.

In response to EFF’s FOIA lawsuit, the government has released the 2011 FISA court opinion ruling that some NSA surveillance was unconstitutional.