Friends of Mayor Densmore

Joseph Tapley didn’t want his name in the press. He had worked too hard, since leaving prison in 2002, to get his life on track. Today he owns a business and has a wife and kids. The last thing he wanted when he s […]

It’s now (probably) legal to publicly sing the world’s most popular song, thanks to an opinion handed down yesterday by a federal judge in Los Angeles. After years of litigation, the court held that the lyrics1 o […]

“Cyber-bulling” and other forms of online harassment are a serious problem. But as we have explained in the past, it is a challenge to craft laws or policies that address the harms caused by online harassment […]

There are many things Pope Francis could say in his Thursday address to Congress that would make its members uncomfortable. Rep. Paul Gosar, a Republican Catholic from Arizona, has already announced that he’s […]

WE WERE GATHERED in his living room when Margarito Guerrero told the story. The 61-year-old, who insists you call him Benito, was dressed in jeans, a powder blue button-down shirt and worn leather sandals. He […]

Last week’s announcement that Saudi Arabia — easily one of the world’s most brutally repressive regimes — was chosen to head a U.N. Human Rights Council panel provoked indignation around the world. That reaction […]

This open letter was crossposted to Medium. 
Dear Gov. Brown,
Electronics, computers, satellites, biotechnology, robotics – these are no longer dreams. They are the driving imperative that is restructuring the wo […]

We look back at the Young Lords, a radical group founded by Puerto Ricans modeled on the Black Panther Party. In late July 1969, the group staged their first action in an effort to force the City of New York to […]

As Pope Francis begins a six-day U.S. trip, a group of 100 women, many of them undocumented, has arrived in Washington after marching 100 miles from a detention center in York, Pennsylvania, in order to greet the […]

Pope Francis’ decision to canonize the 18th century Spanish missionary Junípero Serra has drawn a strong protest from many indigenous groups. Serra founded nine of the 21 missions in California that later were th […]

Pope Francis has kicked off his historic U.S. tour. During his six-day trip, Francis is expected to share his message of compassion and simplicity with the world’s richest and most powerful country. On Tuesday, b […]

Pope Francis Arrives in U.S. for Historic TourEgyptian President Pardons Al Jazeera Journalist Mohamed FahmyClinton Breaks Silence, Opposes Keystone XL Oil PipelineGOP Bid to Defund Planned Parenthood Threatens […]

A new stable release for Tor Browser is available from the Tor Browser Project page and also from our distribution directory.
This release features important security updates to Firefox.
We fixed a number of […]

A new alpha Tor Browser release is available for download in the 5.5a3 distribution directory and on the alpha download page.
This release features important security updates to Firefox.
Beginning with this alpha […]

Before Chinese President Xi Jinping visits President Obama, he and Chinese executives have some business in Seattle: pressing U.S. tech companies, hungry for the Chinese market, to comply with the country’s new s […]

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, went on the “Late Show With Stephen Colbert” on Monday and told Colbert that “Running for president is real simple: you just have to surgically disconnect your shame sensor, because you sp […]

Last week, Chinese app developers disclosed that an Apple programming tool had been hijacked to trick developers into embedding malicious software into apps for Apple devices.
The malware, called XcodeGhost, […]

Yesterday, EFF and the ACLU filed a friend-of-the-court brief (press release) defending the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules in the federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. A […]

Confronted with a slew of new facts nine months ago, including how the CIA rammed food up detainees’ rectums and threatened to sexually assault their family members, the Justice Department has done nothing.
In a f […]

Last month South Africa released its draft Cybercrimes and Cybersecurity Bill for public comment; the latest in a wave of such laws that has been sweeping the continent and beyond. EFF is currently reviewing the […]