or How Technology Companies Can Avoid Being "Repression’s Little Helper"For years, there’s been ample evidence that authoritarian governments around the world are relying on the technology of U.S. and European companies to facilitate abuse of human rights, with a wealth of recent evidence in the Arab Spring and China....

If you were inspired to support digital civil liberties this afternoon, you may have noticed that EFF's donation pages look different. The information you enter will now wind its way to an EFF-hosted server and populate a local installation of the first-class, open source database management product for nonprofits, ...

Proponents of pseudonymity scored a major victory today, when Google executive Vic Gundotra revealed at the Web 2.0 Summit that social networking service Google+ will begin supporting pseudonyms and other types of identity.
The news comes after several months of what has been dubbed Nymwars, in which opposing...

Amazon recently announced that the new Kindle Fire tablet will ship with a brand new browser called Silk. The Silk browser works in “cloud acceleration” mode by routing most webpage requests through servers controlled by Amazon. The idea is to capitalize on Amazon’s powerful ...

“When everything is classified, then nothing is classified…The system becomes one to be disregarded by the cynical or the careless and to be manipulated by those intent on self-protection or self-promotion.” ~ Justice Stewart, New York Times v. United States, 1971.
Last week, the White House issued the...

This week marks the 25th anniversary of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), the main federal law setting standards for government access to electronic communications like email. As we’ve been saying for years, ECPA is woefully outdated, putting Americans’ privacy at risk.
That’s why EFF is a...