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Amid Firestorm, Donald Trump Defends Call to Ban Muslim ImmigrantsWhite House, GOP Candidates Criticize Trump’s Proposed Muslim BanHarry Potter Author J.K. Rowling: Trump Worse Than VoldemortBritish, French […]

Real Encryption Means Encryption Without Compromises.
Updated 12/9/15
It’s a showdown over encryption, and we need your voice.
The Obama administration just responded to the 104,109 people who asked the p […]

Today, House leadership released text of the 2016 “Omnibus package.” The legislative package is supposed to deal exclusively with funding the federal government through 2016; however, leadership also managed to […]

ON MONDAY, AMID PUBLIC OUTCRY in Chicago over police brutality and the announcement of a Justice Department probe into officers’ use of force, city officials released two more videos showing the killing or mi […]

We are pleased to announce another public beta release of Tor Messenger. This release addresses a number of stability and usability issues, and includes the default bridge configurations for pluggable […]

Being able to build Tor Browser several times in a row and getting exactly the same result each time has been an important feature for a while now. It provides a direct link between the source code we provide and […]

It has been obvious for decades that copyright law is ill-matched for the opportunities and challenges created by the Internet. It’s been equally obvious, however, that sensible copyright policies face huge […]

The Internet is a diverse ecosystem of private and public stakeholders. By excluding a large sector of communities—like security researchers, artists, libraries, and user rights groups—trade negotiators skewed the […]

In India, catastrophic flooding in the southern city of Chennai has killed at least 269 people and cut off basic services for more than 3 million people as the army and air force continue rescue operations. The […]

On Monday, the prime minister of Tuvalu, Enele Sopoaga, said world leaders must prevent the world from warming more than 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit. Many of the countries most impacted by […]

Ahead of the U.N. climate change summit in Paris, France, more than 180 nations pledged to voluntarily reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but many climate justice groups say far more needs to be done to keep global […]

On Monday in Paris, British Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn addressed the link between labor, trade unions and climate change. We also spoke to him about the connections between war, drilling for oil, and […]

In his first televised U.S. interview since becoming U.K. Labour leader three months ago, Jeremy Corbyn addresses the refugee crisis. “I think we’ve got to both open up and take in far more of the Syrian r […]

In his first U.S. TV/radio interview since being elected the U.K. Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn calls for the closure of Guantánamo Bay. “What on Earth are we doing in this world, where we lock people up for now […]

Three months ago, Jeremy Corbyn shocked the world when he was elected head of the Labour Party in Britain, becoming the country’s opposition leader, vowing to return the Labour Party to its socialist roots, c […]

Donald Trump Calls for Total Ban on Muslims Entering United StatesRival Candidates & Community Leaders Condemn Trump’s Plan to Ban MuslimsBeijing Issues First-Ever Pollution “Red Alert” Amid Choking SmogU.N. Asks […]

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Hours after a new poll revealed that he’s trailing Ted Cruz in Iowa, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump issued a statement advocating “a total and complete shutdown of Muslim […]

In his statement calling for a complete ban on Muslim immigration to the United States, GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump cites as a key part of his argument a discredited opt-in online survey by a […]

Congress is in turmoil over the text of CISA, the controversial cybersecurity bill that the EFF community has been fighting against. The Hill reports that “it now appears the final language is unlikely to include […]

EFF Battles Facebook’s Claims That It’s a Crime to Bypass an IP BlockSan Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will urge a federal appeals court Wednesday to reject Facebook’s claims that it’s a […]