Friends of Mayor Densmore

Trade secrets are seeing a resurgence of attention by policymakers at home and around the world. While there can be legitimate reasons to keep commercially valuable information secret, particularly amongst those […]

Critics of Koch Industries say the company uses its vast political machine to manipulate political and policy debates in the U.S.
The LinkedIn profile of a former officer of the company lends credibility to th […]

In Australia, conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been ousted during snap elections called for by his own Liberal Party. Public opinion of Tony Abbott had reached a record low amid controversial decisions […]

Jeremy Corbyn has been a member of the House of Commons since 1983 and has a long history of voting against his Labour Party, which had moved considerably to the right under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Corbyn’s v […]

EVERY DAY IN AMERICA, mortgage companies attempt to foreclose on homeowners using false documents.
It’s a byproduct of the mortgage securitization craze during the housing bubble, when loans were sliced and di […]

Longtime British socialist MP Jeremy Corbyn has just been elected leader of the opposition Labour Party after running on an antiwar, anti-austerity platform. When Corbyn first announced his candidacy three months […]

Germany Imposes Border Controls as Officials Meet in BrusselsSyrian Woman Says Hungarian Refugee Camp “Only Fit for Animals”Tens of Thousands Rally Across Europe to Declare #RefugeesWelcomeNew York City: Hundreds […]

In his excellent article on the unique guilt-by-association standard being imposed on newly elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, my colleague Jon Schwarz references a passage from a 2013 Washington Post arti […]

For the past month Jeremy Corbyn, the British MP and democratic socialist who just won the election to lead the UK’s Labour Party in a landslide, has been vociferously accused across the British media of assoc […]

This week EFF presented evidence in two of its NSA cases confirming the participation of Verizon Wireless, Sprint and AT&T in the NSA’s mass telephone records collection under the Patriot Act.  This is important […]

Popular Dating Site Has No Love for Strong Security
Back in 2012, EFF first called out OKCupid for failing to safeguard user data by not implementing HTTPS site-wide.
Three years later, OKCupid still hasn’t f […]

The government is skirting the Geneva Conventions and other international human rights standards by refusing to immediatedly release Tariq Ba Odah, a Yemeni Guantanamo detainee suffering from severe malnutrition […]

To mark today, September 11, 2015, I’ve put together a short quiz.
Photo: Brad Rickerby/Reuters /Landov
1. What is this?
A. The World Trade Center in flames on September 11, 2001.
B. A grotesque act of mass murd […]

Over the past month, trade officials have been frantically working to resolve outstanding disagreements over provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in the midst of speculation that the deal is in deep […]

The Kilton Public Library in Lebanon, New Hampshire, is not unusual in its commitment to the freedom to read in privacy. That commitment is shared by libraries all over the world, and written into the basic […]

This Thursday in Manhattan, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for the state to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour for all workers. Cuomo can’t just do this by edict — as he essentially could using an industr […]

The United States is marking the 14th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks today. Three weeks after the World Trade Center and Pentagon were attacked, the U.S. launched airstrikes in Afghanistan, beginning what […]

The leader of Turkey’s Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has accused Turkey’s rulers of pushing the country toward civil war ahead of November’s elections. Over the past week, over 100 offices of the opposit […]

Unshaven, without a tie, the young dissident surveyed the crowd before him. It was June 16, 1989, and 250,000 people had gathered in Heroes’ Square for the reburial of Imre Nagy, the leader of the failed 1956 r […]