Publications

In the wake of the California State Senate’s passage of S.B. 690, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), TechEquity, Consumer Federation of California, Tech Oversight California, ACLU California Action, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, and the Califo...

In recent years, the European Commission has proposed and adopted various legislative changes to help combat online piracy. The Copyright Directive and the Digital Services Act both envisioned tighter copyright takedown rules for online service provi...

BREIN has just published its latest annual report, providing insights into the priorities of the organization and the progress being made. This was BREIN’s first year under new leadership. After Tim Kuik retired in 2024, Bastiaan van Ramshorst became...

Britain’s Foreign Office met privately with a pro-Israel lobbyist to discuss arms exports to Tel Aviv, documents obtained by Declassified reveal. The meeting took place in October 2024 and was attended by Christian Turner, the political director at...

Two dangerous bills have been reintroduced in Congress that would reverse over a decade of progress in fighting patent trolls and making the patent system more balanced. The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) and the PREVAIL Act would each cau...

Last month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a troubling order to all state agency directors of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programs (SNAP): hand over your data. This is part of a larger effort by the Trump administration to gain “unfe...

Thanks in part to your support, the right to repair is now law in Washington. Gov. Bob Ferguson signed two bills guaranteeing Washingtonians' right to access tools, parts, and information so they can fix personal electronics, appliances, and wheelcha...

New reporting has revealed that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is attempting to create the Intelligence Community’s Data Consortium–a centralized online marketplace where law enforcement and spy agencies can peruse and buy...

Approaching San Diego’s first annual review of the city's controversial Flock Safety contract, a local coalition is calling on the city council to roll back this dangerous and costly automated license plate reader (ALPR) program. The TRUST Coalition—...

If Hollywood studios, major record labels, broadcasters, and sports organizations stopped publishing their own piracy research, the scale of the phenomenon and potential solutions would likely be less clearly defined than they are today. What we have...