Friends of Mayor Densmore

A man whose father was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Somalia is seeking to hold Germany accountable for allowing the United States to use its territory for military bases that play a key role in […]

Before Danny Diaz was brought on to manage Jeb Bush’s presidential bid, he waged a different state-by-state campaign: helping the pharmaceutical industry keep cough medicine used in homegrown meth labs av […]

There is something disquieting and unwholesome about telecoms feeding our communications to government agencies. It was headline news, again, last month when we learned that AT&T has had a longstanding partnership […]

Noam Chomsky weighed in on U.S. presidential politics in a speech Saturday at The New School in New York. In addressing a question about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Chomsky assessed the […]

In a speech Saturday at The New School in New York, Noam Chomsky explained why he believes the U.S. poses the greatest threat to world peace. “[The United States] is a rogue state, indifferent to international law […]

In a Democracy Now! special, we spend the hour with Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned political dissident, linguist, author and institute professor emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he’s t […]

Pope Francis Arrives in Washington, D.C., for U.S. TourImmigrant Women Walk 100 Miles to Greet Pope in D.C.Scott Walker Drops 2016 Bid, Calls for GOP Unity Against TrumpBush Backs Immigration Reform After DREAMers […]

EFF is working with the Center for Civic Media at MIT to organize the Freedom to Innovate Summit (F2i) at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 10 and 11. The conference will bring together […]

Courts have long recognized that the First Amendment protects parodies, and last Friday, EFF filed a “friend of the court” brief urging a state court of appeals in Michigan to apply the same protections to par […]

Automakers argue that it’s unlawful for independent researchers to look at the code that controls vehicles without the manufacturer’s permission. We’ve explained before how this allows manufacturers to preve […]

Net Neutrality Rules Under Attack by U.S. Telecommunications ProvidersWashington—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is asking a federal appeals court to approve Federal Communications Commission (FCC) net n […]

A provision that would have forced tech companies like Twitter and Facebook to report every inkling of “terrorist activity” on their services to law enforcement was removed from the 2016 Intelligence Aut […]

On Friday, Google reported on its online security blog the faulty issuance of a certificate for google.com and http://www.google.com by Symantec, a prominent Certificate Authority. This misissuance is significant not […]

Copyright restricts all kinds of important, everyday uses of creative works—even worse, these strict rules last nearly two lifetimes for any given work. We are fighting to reform and push back against these r […]

Academic researchers by necessity spend a lot of their time thinking about how to minimize harm in the conduct of their research. Prompted by the dark history of abuses in human subjects research, research ethics […]

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On his Friday night HBO program, Bill Maher argued that suspicion of young Jewish men was appropriate, saying: “Someone look me in the eye right here and tell me if so many young Jewish men … hasn […]

In the new book, “Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide,” MSNBC national correspondent Joy-Ann Reid looks at the history of race relations in the U.S. while tracing the political shifts in […]

Ahead of his first U.S. visit, Pope Francis celebrated mass in Cuba Sunday before hundreds of thousands of worshipers in Havana’s Revolution Square. Born in Argentina, Francis is the first Latin American pope. H […]

A recent New York Times/CBS poll found that 84 percent of Americans think money has too much influence in U.S. politics, and 85 percent want the campaign financing system completely rebuilt or at least […]

Japanese Parliament OKs Overseas Combat Role Despite Mass ProtestsPope Celebrates Mass in Cuba, Meets with CastroYemen: Hostages Released as Saudi-Led Strikes Kill FamilyGreece: Tsipras to Form New Gov’t After […]