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Dear Friend of Press Freedom, It’s been 129 days that Rümeysa Öztürk is facing deportation by the United States government for writing an op-ed it didn’t like, and the 47th day that Mario Guevara has been imprisoned for covering a protest. Read on fo...

Traditional site-blocking measures that require local ISPs to block subscriber access to popular pirate sites are in common use around the world. Note: this article was updated to add that Open Library does not appear to be actively blocked. More det...

An internal British army media report has acknowledged that Israel is “bombing hospitals and ambulances”, claiming its troops are breaching the Geneva Convention in ways not done by Germany in World War Two. The comments are contained in an interview...

Español Young people should be able to access information, speak to each other and to the world, play games, and express themselves online without the government making decisions about what speech is permissible. But in one of the latest misguided...

After a decade of focusing efforts overseas, the push for website blocking has landed back on American shores. Earlier this year, U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren introduced a new pirate site blocking bill, titled the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (FADPA). Th...

Earlier this year, EFF welcomed Technology Education Collaborative (TEC) into the Electronic Frontier Alliance (EFA). TEC empowers everyday people to become informed users of today's extraordinary technology, and helps people better understand the te...

On a Friday afternoon in mid-June, independent journalist Jack Poulson made a curious discovery: An article that we published about the aggressive attempts of a San Francisco-based tech executive named Maury Blackman to censor Poulson’s reporting abo...

With more ways to stream online video than ever before, protecting content continues to be a key issue for copyright holders. This is often achieved through Digital Rights Management (DRM) anti-piracy tools that dictate where and when digital conte...

Two Labour MPs are being investigated by parliamentary authorities after failing to declare an all-expenses-paid trip to Israel on time. Peter Prinsley and Cat Eccles joined a “solidarity” visit funded by Labour Friends of Israel in May. The group i...

Many of the internet’s thorniest problems can be attributed to the concentration of power in a few corporate hands: the surveillance capitalism that makes it profitable to invade our privacy, the lack of algorithmic transparency that turns artificial...