Publications

The anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) exist to deter circumvention of TPMs (technological protection measures) used to protect and prevent access to copyrighted works. For example, it’s illegal to circumve...

Israeli army officers have been allowed to study at a British military academy in central London throughout the Gaza genocide, Declassified can reveal. At least two Israeli colonels have attended the prestigious Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS...

The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) is supposed to be about attacks on computer systems. It is not, as a federal district court suggested in Ryanair v. Booking.com, applicable when someone uses valid login credentials to access information to whi...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Today, Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), represented by nonpartisan watchdog American Oversight, filed a Freedom of Information Act suit against the Department of Justice in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colu...

Similar to other social media platforms, Facebook has to battle a constant stream of copyrighted material, much of it posted by users who have no permission to do so. To facilitate this process, the company has rolled out several anti-piracy initiati...

Content note: This post refers to data on internet shutdown instances collated by trusted partners in Russia. To date, we have not yet verified these numbers using Access Now’s Shutdown Tracker Optimization Project (STOP) methodology. As such, the da...

Italiano Español By publishing its guidelines under Article 28 of the Digital Services Act, the European Commission has taken a major step towards social media bans that will undermine privacy, expression, and participation rights for young people...

Español If you thought going to a Pride event or drag show was just another night out, think again. If you were in Florida, it might land your name in a government database. That’s what’s happening in Vero Beach, FL, where the Florida Attorney Gene...

For pirate sites trying to stay online in the face of expanding site blocking measures, a supply of effective domains and an operational DNS are absolutely critical. No surprise then that both are considered priority anti-piracy targets to be blocked...

The link between online piracy and malware is far from new. More than two decades ago, LimeWire users were already plagued by malicious software masquerading as music downloads. Today’s online landscape continues to face similar issues, if not worse....