Publications

It’s been over a decade since Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) began analyzing the human rights performance of the world’s largest tech companies. The current geopolitical context, in which authoritarianism, political instability, and conflict are increa...

On 8 June 2024, Israeli forces killed 276 Palestinians in Gaza while rescuing four hostages: Noa Argamani, Shlomi Ziv, Almog Meir Jan, and Andrey Kozlov. The White House’s national security advisor at the time, Jake Sullivan, claimed that the US “di...

Technology is supercharging the attack on democracy by making it easier to spy on people, block free speech, and control what we do. The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s activists, lawyers, and technologists are fighting back. Join the movement to Ta...

With an industrial-scale Piracy Shield blocking program not quite the panacea some had predicted, Italian authorities and rightsholders have recently upgraded their deterrent messaging capabilities. After a database of 2,200 individuals who subscri...

EFF usually warns of new horrors threatening your rights online, but this Halloween we’ve summoned a few of our own we’d like to share. Our new Signal Sticker Pack highlights some creatures—both mythical and terrifying—conjured up by our designers f...

In December 2020, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tweeted that it had signed a military agreement with the UK. It said British and Israeli military chiefs had agreed to “formalise and enhance the defence partnership and support the growing Israel-UK...

In a legal dispute now at the U.S. Supreme Court, the world’s leading record labels and Cox Communications disagree on many things, including how to respond to online piracy. The labels’ preferred solution is to sever subscribers’ access to the int...

To combat online piracy, copyright holders frequently use DMCA subpoenas to compel service providers to unmask alleged infringers. Because these requests don’t require a judge’s approval and are typically signed off by a court clerk, they offer a swi...

As protesters paint signs for another round of “No Kings” demonstrations this Saturday, journalists are getting ready in their own way: Charging camera batteries, notifying emergency contacts, and rinsing old tear gas off their shatter-resistant gogg...

Dear Friend of Press Freedom, It’s been two weeks since Atlanta journalist Mario Guevara was deported and 207 days since Rümeysa Öztürk was arrested for co-writing an op-ed. Read on for more about this weekend’s planned protests, actions you can take...