Publications

Considering the volume of AI-related lawsuits in U.S. courts, AI companies probably have enough copyright-related pressures to contend with right now. Yet with no shortage of rightsholders with developing claims, significant legal distractions will...

Personal files relating to a military official who blew the whistle on a dirty tricks campaign in Northern Ireland and the cover-up of serious abuse at a boys’ home in Belfast have now been mysteriously destroyed or lost, Declassified has learned. Th...

California Governor Newsom has signed S.B. 524, a bill that begins the long process of regulating and imposing transparency on the growing problem of AI-written police reports. EFF supported this bill and has spent the last year vocally criticizing t...

Since 1997, the Tonga Network Information Center (Tonic) has been responsible for the .to top-level domain This country-specific extension is linked to the Kingdom of Tonga but the Tonic registry is incorporated in the United States and operating f...

In a letter sent to Microsoft at the end of last month, EFF and five other civil society organizations—Access Now, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Fight for the Future, and 7amleh—called on the company to cease any further involvement in p...

Three years ago Al Jazeera’s series The Labour Files laid bare the ruthlessness, racism and maniacal factionalism of the Labour right and its cynical exploitation of the antisemitism issue to destroy Jeremy Corbyn. It was resolutely ignored by the Br...

Over the years, we’ve witnessed dozens of anti-piracy campaigns. Despite these efforts, reported piracy rates appear to increase, seemingly undeterred. Research has indicated that piracy is a complex phenomenon that’s not always easy to grasp. Howe...

In October 2020, the RIAA filed a DMCA takedown notice at GitHub targeting ubiquitous YouTube ripping tool, youtube-dl. “The clear purpose of this source code is to (i) circumvent the technological protection measures used by authorized streaming s...

In 2021, German Internet providers agreed to voluntarily block structurally infringing pirate sites. The ISPs teamed up with rightsholder groups and launched the “Clearing Body for Copyright on the Internet” (CUII), which became responsible for handi...

Pintere.com is a straightforward tool that enables users to download images, videos, and boards from Pinterest. The service also works with other platforms, including Facebook, Imgur, and Instagram, but its name suggests that Pinterest is of prime...