Publications

A major arms fair has been criticised by press freedom groups for refusing to let Declassified enter the event, which is being held for the first time since Labour took power. The biennial Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) trade sho...

The UK government has admitted that Israel’s air force chief Tomer Bar was given special diplomatic immunity to visit Britain earlier this summer. The revelation comes as Israeli president Isaac Herzog is about to visit Britain, with campaigners plan...

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SAN FRANCISCO – Electronic Frontier Foundation Executive Director Cindy Cohn will step down by mid-2026 after more than 25 years with the organization and a decade as its top officer leading the fight for digital freedoms. EFF – defending digital pr...

In June 2024, Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Modded Hardware and its alleged operator, Michigan-resident Ryan Daly. In a complaint filed at a federal court in Seattle, Washington, Nintendo accused Modded Hardware of copyright infringement and viola...

From the perspective of rightsholders, blocking domains and IP addresses is necessary to counter a persistent threat from online piracy. In this context, they insist it is reasonable to force internet intermediaries to intervene, using blocking mea...

A cross-party group of MPs and Lords has been shut down, after Declassified revealed it had taken money from a state-owned Israeli arms company. The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Defence Technology received at least £1,499 from RUK Advanced...

Will the United States introduce a pirate site blocking program? Depending on who one asks, the answer could go either way. A slightly different and potentially more complex question isn’t whether the United States will adopt such a program, but wh...

Sports piracy made headlines this week when anti-piracy coalition ACE announced the shutdown of the world’s largest illegal sports streaming ring. The operation, carried out by Egyptian authorities at the end of August, resulted in two arrests and...

We were pleasantly surprised when congressional Republicans introduced our farewell article to the former president, titled Biden’s press freedom legacy: Empty words and hypocrisy, into the record at a House Judiciary Committee hearing this week. Tha...