Publications

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...

With the continued growth of pirate IPTV services in recent years, TV broadcasters and distributors have been ramping up their anti-piracy efforts. The International Broadcaster Coalition Against Piracy (IBCAP) has been particularly active. It’s al...

On 4 March a giant US B-52 bomber took off from the US air force base at Fairford in Gloucestershire to fly alongside Israeli F-35 and F-16 warplanes over the eastern Mediterranean. Also taking part in the exercise was the RAF, whose media release o...

Español Last week, EFF joined 30 civil society groups and academics in warning UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and Department for Science, Innovation & Technology Secretary Peter Kyle about the law enforcement risks contained within the draft Data...

Like many similar reports published most weeks by newspapers in Europe, an article published by Belgian media outlet L’Echo late Saturday evening pulled few punches. The publication explained that after football broadcasters DAZN and 12th Player obta...

Most prevalent in the movie and TV show sectors, applications for DMCA subpoenas are regularly filed at courts in the United States. Aside from their intended purpose, DMCA subpoenas can provide useful clues about future anti-piracy strategies. Whe...

The frontline of online piracy liability keeps moving, and core internet infrastructure providers are increasingly finding themselves in the crosshairs. In a significant ruling last week, the Paris Judicial Tribunal ordered Cloudflare to actively blo...