Publications

Español Update May 5, 2025: In a win for privacy and encryption, the Florida Legislature ended its regular 2025 session on May 2 without passing SB 868 / HB 743. At least Florida’s SB 868/HB 743, “Social Media Use By Minors” bill isn’t beating arou...

Having listened to LaLiga chief Javier Tebas speak about piracy for almost an hour at a conference recently, several things become apparent. Whether one agrees or disagrees with his stance on how to tackle piracy, in particular the blocking controv...

The Foreign Office’s censorship chief has told a court it was “very complicated, a little bit mysterious and regrettable” that a cache of documents was concealed from this journalist long after it was supposed to be made public. Graham Hand, a former...

Español The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday advanced the TAKE IT DOWN Act (S. 146) , a bill that seeks to speed up the removal of certain kinds of troubling online content. While the bill is meant to address a serious problem—the dis...

Español When Let’s Encrypt, a free certificate authority, started issuing 90 day TLS certificates for websites, it was considered a bold move that helped push the ecosystem towards shorter certificate life times. Beforehand, certificate authorities...

The Internet Archive is widely known for its Wayback Machine, which preserves copies of the web for future generations. These archiving efforts, which started decades ago, will become more valuable over time. The same could apply to IA’s other projec...

More than a year after its official debut in February 2024, Italy’s controversial Piracy Shield blocking system is yet to deliver on the key predictions justifying its launch. Claims of piracy’s total elimination quickly evaporated, taking predicti...

There’s been plenty of speculation over how The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg found himself on a Signal thread with top-level Trump administration officials. The latest version of the story is that national security adviser Mike Waltz inadvertentl...

The Ministry of Defence has admitted it has no dedicated unit to investigate civilian deaths caused by British military operations – an omission that critics say reveals the UK’s failure to take responsibility for the human cost of its wars. In respo...

Español Last week, a federal judge rejected the government’s motion to dismiss our Privacy Act lawsuit against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE). OPM is disclosing to DOGE age...