Publications

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....

I write these lines as my strength is fading – not just from the demands of journalism, but from the emptiness in my stomach that now clings to my fragile body. At times, I sleep having shared a single piece of bread with what remains of my family,...

Over the past two years, rightsholders of all kinds have filed lawsuits against companies that develop AI models. Most of these cases allege that copyrighted works are used to train models without authorization. This applies to text, but also to imag...

Indian Time, a newspaper that served the Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne, built and informed a loyal audience of Indigenous readers on the U.S.-Canada border for over 40 years. Then, it vanished. In late December 2024, the paper’s last edition was printed...