Publications

Launched in 2024, Italy’s elaborate ‘Piracy Shield‘ blocking scheme was billed as the future of anti-piracy efforts. To effectively tackle live sports piracy, its broad blocking powers aim to block piracy-related domain names and IP addresses within...

Dear Friend of Press Freedom, Welcome to 2026. Rümeysa Öztürk has now been facing deportation for 290 days for co-writing an op-ed the government didn’t like, and journalist Ya’akub Vijandre remains locked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement ov...

The frontline of online piracy liability keeps moving, and core internet infrastructure providers are increasingly finding themselves in the crosshairs. Since 2024, the Paris Judicial Court has ordered Cloudflare, Google and other intermediaries to a...

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ICE has been invading U.S. cities, targeting, surveilling, harassing, assaulting, detaining, and torturing people who are undocumented immigrants. They also have targeted people with work permits, asylum seekers, permanent residents (people holding “...

Britain’s embassy in Caracas rebuffed appeals to help Venezuela’s democratically elected president during a right-wing coup, newly unearthed documents reveal. The coup that ousted Hugo Chávez on 11 April 2002 was orchestrated by dissident military of...

First released in February 2003, Multi Theft Auto (MTA) is an unofficial multiplayer mod for several popular Grand Theft Auto games, starting with GTA III. MTA does not rely on copyright-infringing code, the developers stress, as it works by code inj...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a new budget under the current administration, and they are going on a surveillance tech shopping spree. Standing at $28.7 billion dollars for the year 2025 (nearly triple their 2024 budget) and at l...

Age verification mandates are spreading fast, and they’re ushering in a new age of online surveillance, censorship, and exclusion for everyone—not just young people. Age-gating laws generally require websites and apps to collect sensitive data from e...

This guide was co-written by Andrew Zuker with support from the Heinrich Boell Foundation. The U.S. government publishes volumes of detailed data on the money it spends, but searching through it and finding information can be challenging. Complex sea...