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We turn now to shocking new videos that have surfaced from inside a South Carolina high school where a police officer has been caught on camera slamming a teenage girl to the ground and dragging the student out of […]

U.S. to Launch “Direct Action on the Ground” in Iraq, SyriaTurkey Attacks Kurdish Fighters Allied with U.S. Against ISILYemen: U.S.-Backed Coalition Bombs Doctors Without Borders HospitalThousands Rally to Demand […]

Friends of Egyptian technologist and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah changed their social media avatars to his iconic one to mark the one-year anniversary of his most recent arrest. The effort was planned in advance […]

Today the United States released its third National Action Plan (NAP) setting out its latest commitments as a member of the Open Government Partnership (OGP). The OGP is a voluntary initiative in which […]

CISA passed the Senate today in a 74-21 vote. The bill is fundamentally flawed due to its broad immunity clauses, vague definitions, and aggressive spying authorities. The bill now moves to a conference c […]

Crack open a Club-Mate and raise a glass to strong crypto. There’s reason to celebrate. 
Today, the 100,000th person signed our petition calling on President Obama to reject compelled backdoors in our co […]

President Obama will now be forced to publicly describe the extent of his commitment to protecting strong encryption, after nearly 50 major technology companies, human rights groups, and civil liberties […]

The new rules for exemptions to copyright’s DRM-circumvention laws were issued today, and the Librarian of Congress has granted much of what EFF asked for over the course of months of extensive briefs and […]

As with other films in the Field of Vision series, Peace in the Valley started with an assignment from the FOV producers. According to West Coast-based directors Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher, it didn’t take m […]

Exemption Requests Also Approved for Tweaking Abandoned Videogames, Jailbreaking Phones and Tablets, and Remixing VideosWashington, D.C. – The Librarian of Congress has granted security researchers and others the […]

The American Civil Liberties Union suffered major defeats on Friday, when two of its cases involving clear violations of civil right and civil liberties were dismissed, both undone by the judiciary’s deference t […]

The only journalistic sin worse than disastrously misreporting an important story that turns out to be untrue is disastrously misreporting an important story that is true, so no one believes it anymore.
The end […]

The post-Charlie Hebdo “free speech” march in Paris was a fraud for multiple reasons, as I wrote at the time. It was led by dozens of world leaders, many of whom imprison or even kill people for expressing prohi […]

CISA, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, advanced in a procedural vote last week and will have its final vote today, Tuesday. EFF continues to strongly oppose the bill.
Today, the bill’s sponsors released […]

Early Monday morning, three campus police officers at the University of Mississippi removed the state flag with its Confederate emblem from the grounds of the school’s campus in Oxford. The move comes after the s […]

Nobel Prize-winning economist and Columbia University professor Joseph Stiglitz warns about the dangers of the TPP, the Trans-Pacific Partnership. “We know we’re going to need regulations to restrict the e […]

As presidential candidates spar over economic policies and Congress debates the TPP, one of the nation’s leading economists is calling for a comprehensive overhaul of the U.S. economy. Nobel Prize-winning e […]

In Guatemala, Jimmy Morales, a right-leaning former television comedian with no government experience, won the presidency after less than half of eligible voters cast ballots on Sunday. Morales received 67 percent […]

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has decided to cut his U.S. trip short due to raging fires that have resulted in haze and toxic fumes covering much of the country as well as parts of Malaysia and Singapore. Many […]

On Monday, President Obama met Indonesia’s new president, Joko Widodo, at the White House to discuss climate change, trade and strengthening U.S.-Indonesian ties. President Obama described Indonesia as one of t […]