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Last Month was the Hottest September Ever Recorded WorldwideHillary Clinton to Testify Before GOP-Led Committee on BenghaziBiden Says He Is Not Running for PresidentRight-Wing Freedom Caucus Backs Paul Ryan for […]

Domain registry xyz.com has put in a proposal to ICANN [PDF] that would see it automatically censoring new domain names that match a Chinese government blacklist. Industry news site Domain Incite has reported […]

Earlier this month, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a crucial law with groundbreaking implications for privacy, the Internet and free speech. Sacramento’s adoption of the California Electronic […]

Hillary Clinton has received a mixture of plaudits and qualified skepticism for her Wall Street reform plan. She insists that the plan is tougher than those of her Democratic presidential rivals, because it […]

Open access isn’t explicitly covered in any of the secretive trade negotiations that are currently underway, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership […]

Read the complete Drone Papers.
VIEWED FROM HIGH ABOVE, Chabelley Airfield is little more than a gray smudge in a tan wasteland. Drop lower and its incongruous features start coming into focus. In the sun-bleached […]

The National Security Agency is literally counting down the hours until its deadline to stop the bulk collection of information on American phone calls. The agency’s civil liberties and privacy officer, Rebecca R […]

Five years ago, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg donated $100 million to fix the trouble-plagued schools of Newark, New Jersey. Joining forces with Republican Gov. Chris Christie and then-Democratic Mayor Cory […]

The Obama administration has approved an $11.25 billion deal to sell four advanced, Lockheed Martin-made warships to Saudi Arabia. The move comes as Amnesty International has called on the United States to halt […]

In a victory for environmentalists, President Obama has ended the possibility of oil drilling in the Arctic for the rest of his tenure. The Obama administration has canceled plans to sell new drilling leases and […]

For decades, Exxon has publicly questioned the science of global warming, contradicting internal findings by the company’s own scientists. Recent exposés by InsideClimate News and the Los Angeles Times reveal th […]

Slovenia Calls in Army amid Refugee Bottleneck; Fire Erupts at CampSweden: Suspected Arson Guts Refugee ShelterNetanyahu Criticized for Claim Palestinian Mufti Inspired HolocaustIsraeli Forces Shoot Palestinian […]

Perhaps the toughest challenge facing any putatively multi-stakeholder governance process is its capture by vested interests. ICANN is a textbook illustration of this. Ever since its formation, public interest […]

Today ICANN’s GNSO Privacy & Proxy Services Accreditation Issues Working Group is discussing the comments that EFF and thousands of others made in response to proposals to clamp down on the availability of […]

As if “national security” weren’t enough, now Congress is trying to use “cybersecurity” as an excuse to chip away at our right to privacy—and it’s riding on the coattails of incidents like the Experian and […]

Today EFF filed a petition asking the Ninth Circuit to revisit some aspects of its big decision in Lenz v. Universal, also known as the dancing baby case. While we celebrated parts of the court’s ruling – par […]

In a victory for financial reformers who want to lessen Wall Street’s influence on regulatory policy, the White House on Tuesday nominated Lisa Fairfax, a law professor from George Washington University, to fill a […]

The Senate will vote on the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) within the next week. EFF vehemently opposes the bill, as well as amendments that would expand the draconian Computer Fraud and Abuse A […]

A year after he was fired by the University of Illinois over concerns about the “civility” of his criticism of supporters of Israel, Steven Salaita says that, despite the emotional trauma he suffered as a result […]

When taxpayers pay for research, everyone should have access to it.
That’s the simple premise of the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act of 2015 (S.779, H.R.1477), or FASTR. If enacted, FASTR w […]