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Report: Middle East to See “Intolerable” Heat by 2100Earthquake Death Toll in Afghanistan, Pakistan Tops 300Obama, Congress Reach Tentative Budget DealU.S. Ship Passes Through Disputed Waters in South China […]

Groups Appeal Lower Court Ruling Finding Police Agencies Don’t Have To Disclose RecordsSan Francisco­—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California (ACLU SoCal) are urgi […]

The last of the Zone 9 Bloggers are finally free from jail, after nearly 18 months of detention for simply speaking out online. All the bloggers were acquitted of terrorism charges by the Ethiopian courts; one […]

EFF Battles Against Government Stalling in Jewel v. NSAPasadena, CA – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will urge an appeals court Wednesday to reject the government’s attempts to block an appeal in Jewel v […]

ON MAY 10, 2007, in the East Room of the White House, President George W. Bush presided over a ceremony honoring the nation’s most accomplished community service leaders. Among those collecting a President’s Vol […]

Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., the Washington Post reports, is preparing to hire David Hoppe, a veteran lobbyist, to manage his office, “should Ryan be elected House speaker this week, as is widely expected.”
While Ryan […]

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, activist and Presbyterian minister Chris Hedges, whose latest book is “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle,” spoke Saturday at New York’s “Rise U […]

On Saturday, thousands rallied in New York City against police brutality as part of three days of protest called “Rise Up October.” Some 40 families across the country impacted by police violence participated in […]

Tension is continuing to mount in Israel over a string of recent Palestinian stabbing attacks and an intense crackdown by the Israeli government. Since October 1, at least 58 Palestinians have been shot and killed […]

In an interview on Sunday, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair admitted that there were “elements of truth” to the claim that removing Saddam Hussein played a part in the creation of ISIL. “You can’t say t […]

The BBC loves to boast about how “objective” and “neutral” it is. But a recent article, which it was forced to change, illustrates the lengths to which the British state-funded media outlet will go to protect […]

A new round of international talks to end the war in Syria could begin as early as this week. The four-year-old war has killed more than 300,000 people and left more than 7 million others displaced. On Friday, […]

Powerful Earthquake Kills Scores in Afghanistan, PakistanEuropean Leaders Agree to Plan for RefugeesConficting Accounts of Israeli Killing of Teenage GirlVideo Shows Israeli Settler Attacking RabbiBlair […]

Since our last update on the upcoming net neutrality regulation in the European Union, a further compromise proposal has been developed, which heads to a vote in the European Parliament on Tuesday next week. On […]

Update (mere hours later): Apple filed a reply to this brief that matches our position that the government has overreached. Here’s the relevant part:
The fact that Apple’s devices include software, and that s […]

Police Should Not Have Unfettered Access To Patients’ Sensitive Prescription Drug RecordsSan Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging the California Supreme Court to rule that law enf […]

Civil rights group ColorOfChange announced Thursday that the Hillary Clinton campaign has agreed to stop accepting contributions from lobbyists and campaign committees that serve the private prison industry.
The a […]

The co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus says that new details about the Obama Administration’s secretive drone war call for heightened oversight.
“The Pentagon documents obtained by The Intercept ech […]

El Intelligence Support System (ISS) Latin World America, una feria que sucedió del 20 al 22 de octubre pasado en la ciudad de México, donde los proveedores de sistemas secretos de vigilancia se reunieron para e […]

Representatives from two major defense contractors whose advanced weaponry is being used in the Saudi Arabia-led bombing campaign that has killed scores of civilians in Yemen were quick to defend the human rights […]