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Commissioned to apply realistic graffiti to sets for the popular Showtime series Homeland, three artists and activists took the opportunity to critique their employer by painting satirical and damning phrases in […]

When a CBS News segment featuring a focus group of American Muslims aired Friday, it highlighted their relationship to terrorism, with a particular fixation on how much responsibility they felt to condemn […]

Congress easily passed a thinly disguised surveillance provision—the final version of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, or CISA— on Friday, shoehorned into a must-pass budget bill to prevent a gov […]

Caribbean nations have long served as tax havens for the world’s economic elite, with many offering so-called economic citizenship where, for large payments, one can simply buy citizenship in their c […]

A new stable release for Tor Browser is available from the Tor Browser Project page and also from our distribution directory.
This release features important security updates to Firefox which we missed in our […]

A new alpha Tor Browser release is available for download in the 5.5a5 distribution directory and on the alpha download page.
This release features important security updates to Firefox.
Additionally, we included […]

We are pleased to announce the second release in our hardened Tor Browser series. The download can be found in the 5.5a5-hardened distribution directory and on the download page for hardened builds.
This release […]

I’ve been using Tor for more than a decade. I travel all the time, and often find myself connected to manifestly untrustworthy networks — from the nets at hacker conferences to the one the Chinese government […]

The United States Court of Appeal for the Seventh Circuit today struck down an overbroad permanent injunction against online speech issued by a lower court in a defamation case. The lower court had enjoined future […]

We were disappointed today to learn that a federal appeals court in Pasadena declined to consider EFF’s appeal of a ruling in Jewel v. NSA, our long-running lawsuit battling unconstitutional mass surveillance of I […]

TODAY BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS approved a $1.1 trillion spending bill intended to keep government services funded through September 2016. Tucked into this omnibus legislation are provisions that could undermine, o […]

THE U.N. CLIMATE CONFERENCE in Paris should have been a moment for reimagining the way nations absorb the movement of people across borders. And to a very limited extent, it was. In a timid acknowledgement of the […]

For the last four years, EFF has greeted the holiday season by publishing a list of things we’d like to see happen in the coming year. Sometimes these are actions we’d like to see taken by companies, and sometimes […]

In response to feedback from activist groups, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Facebook announced Tuesday that it would change some aspects of its real names policy. As it currently stands, the policy […]

As a critique of The Intercept’s story yesterday by Jeremy Scahill and Margot Williams on a catalogue of the U.S. government’s wide array of eavesdropping equipment, several people who identify themselves as nat […]

THE CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS of Al Jazeera appears to have blocked an article critical of Saudi Arabia’s human rights record from viewers outside the United States. The news network, which is funded by the g […]

This article was published by Al Jazeera America on December 3. Al Jazeera’s headquarters in Qatar appear to have blocked the article outside of the United States because it is critical of an ally of Qatar, so we […]

Government Has Created Impermissible Licensing Regime for Computer-Readable DesignsSan Francisco – The government cannot require Americans to go through an export licensing scheme prior to posting and sharing 3-D […]

EFF has filed a brief in Defense Distributed v. Department of State, a case that could push forward recognition for the hard fought principle that publishing computer files that communicate information, even in an […]

Consultants affiliated with a small Washington, D.C., firm called Beacon Global Strategies hold the unique privilege of providing high-profile foreign policy guidance to Hillary Clinton, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cru […]