Friends of Mayor Densmore

We’ve been thrilled to work with members of EFF’s amazing community to find new ways to reach out, collaborate, and celebrate digital rights. Recently, the fine folks at Cards Against Humanity in Chicago showed […]

Back in 2011, This American Life toured an office building in Marshall, Texas, and found eerie hallways of empty offices that serve as the ‘headquarters’ of patent trolls. For many, that was the first int […]

The following comment was written by Canadian filmmaker, Andrew Hunter, sent to party leaders asking them to come out against the 20-year copyright term extension in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and stand […]

FBI Says It Can’t Find Any Documents Responsive to FOIA Requests Even Though Congress Has Been Briefed For YearsSan Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) law […]

We remember the life of civil rights pioneer Julian Bond, who died on Saturday at the age of 75. Bond first gained prominence in 1960 when he organized a series of student sit-ins while attending Morehouse […]

We’re still sifting through the documents released as part of the recent bombshells in the press discussing AT&T’s “extreme willingness to help” the NSA in its mass spying programs. One area where the new […]

Reports today in the New York Times and ProPublica confirm what EFF’s Jewel v. NSA lawsuit has claimed since 2008—that the NSA and AT&T have collaborated to build a domestic surveillance infrastructure, res […]

James Baldwin’s FBI file contains 1,884 pages of documents, collected from 1960 until the early 1970s. During that era of illegal surveillance of American writers, the FBI accumulated 276 pages on Richard W […]

Welcome to the thirty-first issue in 2015 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community.
Tor Browser 5.0 and 5.5a1 are out
The Tor Browser team put out two new r […]

Maybe you’ve seen that Jeb Bush has refused to rule out more torture if he’s elected president. But what’s gone unnoticed — perhaps because Bush is so dreary it’s hard to listen to him without losing conscio […]

During a company conference call with financial analysts last week, Tom Brown, the chief executive of LRAD, a military contractor, informed investors that sales were rolling in, not just from Chinese government […]

Britain has announced plans to challenge Ecuador’s decision to provide asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in its London embassy, saying the $18 million price tag for policing the Ecuadorean Embassy d […]

John Kerry Arrives in Havana as U.S. Raises Flag at Embassy in CubaGreece Passes Terms of Bailout as Dissent Inside Syriza Party GrowsNYC: Dozens Protest Hedge Funds’ Role in Puerto Rico Debt CrisisBritain to […]

David Hyde, a 22-year-old from New Zealand, became an international media sensation this week after a Swiss newspaper described how, as an unpaid intern at the United Nations, he couldn’t afford a place to stay a […]

Human Rights Watch Battling Illegal Surveillance of Americans’ International Phone CallsUpdate: This hearing has been vacated. In an order issued late Thursday, the judge indicated he would decide the g […]

The New York Times has a story out on how San Diego police use mobile facial recognition devices in the field, including potentially on non-consenting residents who aren’t suspected of a crime.  One account fr […]

Since the age of 23, Tariq Ba-Odah has been detained at the U.S. prison facility at Guantánamo Bay. Never charged with a crime, Ba-Odah went on hunger strike eight years ago to protest his indefinite deten […]

The Securities and Exchange Commission has admitted that it has no ability to enforce the main rule intended to prevent market manipulation when companies buy back their own stock, and has no intention to do […]

Jewish and Palestinian women are holding a hunger strike outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem to call for a renewal of peace negotiations. Members of the group Women Wage Peace have b […]

Sweden Drops Part of Sexual Assault Inquiry Against Julian AssangeChina: Explosions at Chemical Warehouse Kill Nearly 50 PeopleGreece: Migrants Locked in Stadium Without Food and Little WaterManned U.S. Warplanes […]