Publications

A.B. 412, the flawed California bill that threatened small developers in the name of AI “transparency,” has been delayed and turned into a two-year bill. That means it won’t move forward in 2025—a significant victory for innovation, freedom to code,...

Amid a wave of lawsuits targeting how AI companies use copyrighted works to train large language models that generate new works, a peculiar provision of copyright law is suddenly in the spotlight: Section 1202 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act...

On Thursday, Demand Progress and Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) filed an ethics complaint against Edward L. Artau, a Florida judge who was nominated by President Donald Trump to a federal district court after delivering a favorable ruling for...

In 2021, German Internet providers agreed to voluntarily block the most egregious pirate sites. The ISPs teamed up with rightsholders groups and launched the “Clearing Body for Copyright on the Internet” (CUII), which was in charge of handing down bl...

A Home Office counter-terror scheme may have monitored children who survived the Grenfell Tower fire, Declassified can reveal. London-based media agency Zinc Network Ltd was contracted to work with a string of local charities in a bid to deradicalise...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation and ARTICLE 19 strongly support the Wikimedia Foundation’s legal challenge to the categorization regulations of the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act. The Foundation – the non-profit that operates Wikipedia and oth...

Remember when President Donald Trump derided the news media and flatly declared that “what they do is illegal” during a speech at the Department of Justice? Turns out, he meant it. The Trump administration is increasingly accusing journalists of inci...

Originally known as Switch-xci, NSW2U has been a thorn in the side of Nintendo for over half a decade. The site was initially active on several platforms, including YouTube. Later on, its primary focus was providing a linking portal for pirated games...

A set of radio devices and technologies are opening the doorway to new and revolutionary forms of communication. These have the potential to break down the over-reliance on traditional network hierarchies, and present collaborative alternatives where...

The UK government is secretly paying foreign YouTube stars to publish “propaganda” videos, Declassified can reveal. A three-year investigation has found that online influencers are made to sign legal contracts banning them from disclosing the governm...