A raíz de las filtraciones que desde el pasado 6 de julio ponen en tela de juicio la venta de software de espionaje de la empresa italiana Hacking Team S.r.l. a agencias gubernamentales de inteligencia de todo el mundo, y particularmente América Latina, organizaciones no gubernamentales defensoras de...

Like so many of his friends and colleagues across the world, we were shocked and saddened to hear of the death of Caspar Bowden, the British privacy activist and co-founder of the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR).
Among a community filled with perceptive advocates for a better...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation welcomes the appointment of Mr. Joseph Cannataci as the first-ever UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy. The President of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) appointed Mr. Cannataci last week following the March 2015 HRC resolution that called to appoint a new...

Despite all of the evidence to the contrary, FBI Director Comey wants you to know that he doesn't want another crypto war. As he said today in hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), he just wants a discussion....

Update: More good news this morning as two more of the Zone 9 bloggers—Mahlet Fantahun and Edom Kassaye—were released along with Reeyot Alemu, an Ethiopian journalist who was jailed in June 2011 on terrorism charges. However Befeqadu Hailu, Natnael Feleke, Atnaf Berahane and Abel Wabela remain in prison. We will...

The digital security community has been reacting this week to leaked documents from italian surveillance company Hacking Team. The documents, which include lists of contracts and sales pitches to some of the worst authoritarian regimes and countries with weak democracies, show a global industry of sales to states of software...