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The First Amendment protects the right of everyone to use the Internet to criticize government officials–including people on supervised release from prison.
Take the case of Darren Chaker, whose supervised r […]

Copyright Lawsuits Won’t Stop People from Sharing Research
In principle, everyone in the world should have access to the same body of knowledge. The UN Declaration of Human Rights says that everyone deserves the r […]

Republican presidential candidates spent much of Wednesday night’s debate trying to out-“tough” each other.
It started with a question submitted by a Georgia Tech student asking how Donald Trump’s plan to intenti […]

Online harassment is a serious problem.  As we’ve repeatedly explained in the past, laws that address it must be carefully written to protect people from the real harms caused by online harassment, without un […]

In the public battle for strong encryption, EFF has championed the voice of everyday Internet users. After all, if we can’t rely on the security of our digital communications, how can the Web continue to grow a […]

From Mary Shelley to George Orwell to H.G. Wells to William Gibson, science fiction has been the most enduring, most convincing way for artists to engage in tech policy issues.—Cory DoctorowAs part of EFF’s 25t […]

BRIAN CHAVEZ WAS CONSIDERED a model inmate, a “trustee” granted special privileges for his good behavior during the first three years he was in jail. Then, last November, Chavez was moved with no explanation to […]

One of the biggest policy debates in America today concerns the unparalleled rise in prescription drug costs. Enormous pharmaceutical industry profit margins; tales of companies like Turing, Valeant, and Gilead […]

One of the basic tenets of a civilized society is that the punishment should be proportionate with the crime. What essentially amounts to vandalism should not result in even the remote possibility of a 25-year […]

LORI CERVERA HAD ALWAYS been an active person. She liked camping, playing outdoors with her kids, and practically lived in her running shoes. She didn’t have much patience for illness. So when she developed a d […]

As Republican candidates vowed to expand the wars in the Middle East, professor Stephen Zunes looks at how most of the candidates ignored how the U.S. invasion of Iraq helped create what became the self-proclaimed […]

In one of the more heated moments in Tuesday’s debate, Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio clashed over the National Security Agency’s bulk metadata collection. Donald Trump called for closing parts of the Int […]

During Tuesday’s debate, radio host Hugh Hewitt asked Dr. Ben Carson if he was ruthless enough to wage war. “You are OK with the deaths of thousands of innocent children and civilians?” Hewitt asked. Carson, a n […]

Tuesday’s debate was held in Las Vegas at the Venetian casino, owned by Republican billionaire backer Sheldon Adelson. Adelson and fellow billionaire Donald Trump held a private meeting before the event. We s […]

The nine leading Republican presidential candidates squared off last night in the first debate since Donald Trump shook up the race by proposing to ban Muslims from entering the United States. Much of the debate […]

On Tuesday, top Republicans in the Senate rejected a move by congressional Democrats to extend bankruptcy protection laws to Puerto Rico. This means Puerto Rico is now just two weeks away from the biggest […]

Fifth Republican Debate Focuses on Expanding Military, WarsKerry: U.S. Not Seeking Regime Change in SyriaReport: U.S. Overlooked Torture, Killings by Iraq-Backed MilitiasLos Angeles Schools Reopen After […]

Under the glare of the modern surveillance state, EFF’s long-held goal of encrypting the web has only grown more pressing. And crypto remains on the march, with promising developments ranging from the public beta […]

Just as Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is surging in the Iowa polls, his failure to kowtow to the powerful ethanol lobby there has produced an onslaught of special interest attack ads.
The pro-ethanol […]

OVER A MONTH AFTER HIS DEATH, the details surrounding what happened to John Hamen, an American who was held by Houthi rebels in war-torn Yemen, remain a mystery.
United Nations-led peace talks beginning today in […]