Publications

When studying law in Taiwan back in 2019, Kevin Lin learned that law firms were doing good business in the anti-piracy space. After he graduated, he aimed to do the same. Around June 2022, reports emerged that Lin was a suspect in what was describe...

العربية Alaa Abd El Fattah is finally free and at home with his family. On September 22, it was announced that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi had issued a pardon for Alaa’s release after six years in prison. One day later, the BBC shared v...

The European Union Council is once again debating its controversial message scanning proposal, aka “Chat Control,” that would lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of people. Chat Control, which EFF has strongly opposed since it w...

This post was co-authored by EFF legal intern Olivia Miller. For most Americans—driving is a part of everyday life. Practically speaking, many of us drive to work, school, play, and anywhere in between. Not only do we visit places that give insights...

Español This post is an adapted version of the article originally published at Silla Vacía Heads of state and governments of the Americas will gather this December at the Tenth Summit of the Americas in the Dominican Republic to discuss challenges...

Español As the first copyright cases concerning AI reach appeals courts, EFF wants to protect important, beneficial uses of this technology—including AI for legal research. That’s why we weighed in on the long-running case of Thomson Reuters v. ROS...

British declassified files show how Harold Wilson’s Labour government, together with the US government under Lyndon Johnson, were complicit in one of the worst slaughters in the postwar world. The killings in Indonesia started when a group of army of...

Authorities in the United States have seized many domain names over the years, including those associated with online piracy. In some cases, domains are seized as part of a criminal prosecution. Megaupload.com, for example, was taken down thirteen ye...

Nearly a quarter of a century after its debut, internet users stocking up on the latest multi-GB Linux distros can still do so with help from the BitTorrent protocol. Able to download chunks of even the largest files, distributed among other users...

Four years ago, Bungie filed a complaint at a federal court in Seattle, accusing Destiny 2 cheat seller AimJunkies.com of copyright and trademark infringement, among other things. The same accusations were also leveled against Phoenix Digital Group,...