EFF has long contended that existing export controls—maintained by the Departments of Treasury and Commerce—hinder the ability of activists in countries like Syria to communicate. Restrictions on the use of hosting services, antivirus tools, and even circumvention technology make the already-unsafe Syrian Internet even less safe for users. Meanwhile,...

Recently, EFF sent comments to Victoria Espinel, the Obama Administration's "IP Czar,"1 to help shape how U.S. tax dollars are spent on enforcing copyright, trademark,...

(Special thanks to EFF Intern Max Mishkin for his help with this blog post)
EFF recently received a trove of documents from the FAA in response to our Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, offering new insights into the public and private use of drones in...

As the violence escalates across Syria, so do the campaigns of targeted malware attacks against Syrian activists, journalists, and members of the opposition, which covertly install surveillance software on their computers. Syrians are growing more aware of the danger these campaigns pose to their security and the security of their...

At the risk of repeating ourselves, the current patent system is broken. There's considerable evidence to support this claim, too—whether it's innovation-destroying patent trolls or certified "chaos" in legal battles among tech giants. More than 10,000 people have signed onto our Defend Innovation campaign, helpfully providing...

Recently, we wrote about Ethiopian blogger Eskinder Nega, who was sentenced under the country's vague counterterrorism to eighteen years in prison for blogging about government corruption.
Individuals and organizations in the U.S. that wish to offer support for Eskinder Nega and freedom of expression in Ethiopia have several...