Friends of Mayor Densmore

EFF welcomes Caroline Bokman to the finance and HR team. Caroline moved to San Francisco in 1994 from New Jersey. Navigating the nightlife and tech booms since then, she has always worked between the two worlds, […]

United Nations-brokered peace talks in Yemen’s nine-month-old civil war are faltering, amid disputes between rival factions over the release of prisoners. Meanwhile, local officials have reported intensifying c […]

A Denver, Colorado, man has spent 28 years in prison based on a dream—and it wasn’t his. Now he could soon be free. In 1989, Clarence Moses-EL, who is African-American, was sentenced to 48 years in prison aft […]

In the wake of a series of humiliating cyberattacks, the imperative in Congress and the White House to do something — anything — in the name of improving cybersecurity was powerful.
But only the most cynical obs […]

A stunning new investigation by The New York Times examines claims of military abuses and a possible cover-up that goes up the chain of command. Reporters uncovered accounts that in May 2012 members of a Navy SEAL […]

Enrique Marquez, Friend of Syed Farook, Indicted on Terrorism ChargesObama: No “Specific and Credible” Threat of Terrorist Attack in U.S.Hate Crimes on Muslim Americans, Mosques Have Tripled Since ParisCWA Backs […]

Today Public Knowledge, Engine, and EFF filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court about patent damages. This guest post is by former EFF apprentice legal intern Charles Duan, now the Director of Public […]

An increasing number of the FBI’s terror investigations now start with a post or a tweet. But distinguishing between the huge number of people who talk about terror on social media and the very few actual po […]

Today we’re launching version 2.0 of our tracking and fingerprinting detection tool, Panopticlick. This version brings new tests to our existing tool, such as canvas and touch-capability fingerprinting, updating […]

New Feature Analyzes Your Web Browser and Add-Ons for Successful Tracker BlockingSan Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) launched new online tracker-testing in its Panopticlick tool today, helping […]

THE INTERCEPT HAS OBTAINED a secret, internal U.S. government catalogue of dozens of cellphone surveillance devices used by the military and by intelligence agencies. The document, thick with previously u […]

The headlines about Donald Trump hitting new highs in national polls are tremendously deceptive, as they only measure his support among self-declared Republican primary voters, a small subset of the nation as a […]

As economics editor for Channel 4 News in the U.K. and the author, most recently, of PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future, Mason is well-suited to examine the tumultuous recent history of Greece, which has […]

The mayor of Flint, Michigan, has declared a state of emergency to address lead poisoning in the city’s water supply. Last year, the city’s unelected emergency manager switched the city’s water source from the D […]

From Baltimore to Ferguson to New York, Wednesday was a major day for criminal justice news. In Baltimore, a mistrial has been declared in the case of one of the police officers charged in the death of Freddie […]

In Baltimore, a mistrial has been declared in the case of a police officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray. Gray died in April from a spinal injury sustained while being transported in the back of a police […]

Baltimore: Mistrial in Trial Against Officer in Death of Freddie GrayChicago: Students Chant “16 Shots” During Mayor Emanuel’s VisitNew York Prisons to Overhaul Solitary Confinement SystemFederal Prosecutors to […]

The language in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on Internet Service Provider (ISP) liability—which governs the legal liability of Internet intermediaries and platforms for communications of their u […]

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.
Additionally, we included […]

I first heard of what was to become the Tor Project around 2002. At that time, I don’t think any of us realized how essential Tor was going to be to the Internet freedom movement.
Back in the 1990s, I had […]