Articles by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Historic milestone for rights of readers as UN negotiators finalise treaty for the blind
A newly drafted international treaty gives people with visual and reading disabilities better access to copyrighted works; it comes as the result of collective efforts to carve out protections for the blind and reading disabled that faced years of resistance from rightsholder industries.
U.S. surveillance of EU officials sparks privacy concerns
The diminishing trust between the U.S. and the EU as a result of the spying revelations could have a knock-on effect on global copyright regulation, and stiffen Europe’s resolve to better protect its own citizens’ online privacy.
U.S. National Security Agency spying on millions of Americans
An order from the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has directed telecom Verizon to provide “on an ongoing daily basis” all call records for any call “wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls” and any call made “between the United States and abroad.”
Jordanian authorities block over 200 ‘unlicensed’ news websites
The Jordanian government began, on 2 June 2013, to block over 200 news websites for failing to register and obtain licenses under a recently amended and controversial Press and Publications Law.
Internet surveillance and free speech: the UN makes the connection
At a time when efforts by states to conduct communications surveillance are rapidly proliferating across the globe, in a landmark report the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Opinion makes the case for a direct relationship between state surveillance, privacy and freedom of expression.
Standing their ground: Internet activists in Jordan and Palestine
In the past couple of years, there have been striking developments in Internet regulation across the Middle East and North Africa. But while the governments of some countries have proposed draconian regulation threatening a free and open Internet, civil society across the region is becoming more active than ever in fighting back.
Coalition calls on Vietnamese government to end persecution of activists
As eight Vietnamese human rights activists are appealing their convictions, a coalition of organisations has questioned the legitimacy of the trial and condemned the reported ill treatment of the activists since they have been in detention.
U.S. Justice Department seizes journalists’ call records
The Associated Press (AP) has revealed that the U.S. Justice Department secretly collected telephone records of 20 of its phone lines from April and May 2012. The records may contain communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP.