Publications

Northern Ireland’s chief constable Jon Boutcher is reviewing the security classification of an MI5 file from 1973 to see if it can finally be made public. Jack Morton, a senior MI5 officer, drew up a dossier on how police special branch should respon...

This blog also appears in our Age Verification Resource Hub: our one-stop shop for users seeking to understand what age-gating laws actually do, what’s at stake, how to protect yourself, and why EFF opposes all forms of age verification mandates. Hea...

Formerly known as Mindgeek, Aylo is the driving force behind free ‘tube’ sites such as Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube. It also owns many adult brands, including Brazzers and Reality Kings, that charge for subscriptions. The company controls an impre...

2025 marked a turning point for Logos as a technical project. What had previously existed as a collection of related but independently evolving protocols came together into a single, coherent stack, with a clear identity, shared architecture, and a...

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Pirate sites and services can be a real challenge for rightsholders to deal with. In India, however, recent court orders have proven to be quite effective. Indian courts have issued pirate site blocking orders for over a decade. Initially, these or...

Forty years ago, US warplanes bombed Libya, attempting to assassinate its leader Muammar Gaddafi. Failing in that task, they managed to kill dozens of civilians in Tripoli, Libya’s capital. The attacks, which were in response to the bombing of a Berl...

A pro-Palestine activist on hunger strike in a London prison has said the government is “just waiting for one of us to pass away”. Kamran Ahmed, who has not eaten for over two months, told Declassified on Sunday that his body was “twitching” uncontro...

For journalists who work online, the most dangerous assumption is that press freedom is territorial. It is not. In the digital age, journalists publish globally by default, and states increasingly assert criminal jurisdiction globally as well. The re...

The legal battle between X Corp. and the music industry has just escalated from a straightforward copyright lawsuit into a full-blown antitrust war. The dispute started in 2023, with various music publishers accusing X of ‘breeding’ mass copyright in...