Publications

The UK government has approved over £11m worth of surveillance exports to a repressive Gulf state in the past five years, Declassified has found. British companies have been issued 11 licences for exporting “telecommunications interception equipment”...

The US military owns 22 sites in Britain whose “replacement value” is $15.6bn (£11.4bn), according to a US War Department document found by Declassified UK. This number of sites is larger than previously believed and more than UK governments have tol...

Online piracy is often associated with entertainment, such as movies, games, and music. However, there are millions pirating content for educational purposes too. This isn’t a new phenomenon at all. Roughly two decades ago, there were already dedicat...

In decentralised blockchain networks, protecting the identity of block proposers has traditionally been considered a secondary concern. Bitcoin miners operate pseudonymously, while Ethereum validators register publicly to participate in consensus. Ho...

No other country in Europe generates as much noise around physical anti-piracy crackdowns as Italy, where ‘boots-on-the-ground’ operations have become a regular occurrence. While the number of affected users doesn’t always seem to add up, it is clear...

Five years ago, Bulgaria informed the U.S. authorities that it would like to shut down prominent torrent trackers such as ArenaBG, Zamunda, and Zelka. To get that done, the Eastern European country specifically asked the U.S. Government for assista...

Read part one and part two in this series. The previous essays in this series traced a familiar arc: democratic institutions hollowed out by scale, incentives, and capture; legitimacy stretched thinner with every emergency; trust replaced by surveil...

Last week, many Batoto-related communities threw in the towel, following legal pressure from Kakao Entertainment. That sealed the deal for many Batoto followers who still had hopes that the site would return to its former glory after its operator,...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation stands with the people of Minneapolis and with all of the communities impacted by the ongoing campaign of ICE and CBP violence. EFF will be closed Friday, Jan. 30 as part of the national shutdown in opposition to IC...

EFF has long warned about the dangers of the “real-time bidding” (RTB) system powering nearly every ad you see online. A proposed class-action settlement with Google over their RTB system is a step in the right direction towards giving people more co...