The decision faced by dictators to shut off the Internet (and risk economic loss) or keep their citizens online (and risk an Internet-assisted revolt) has been referred to by some as the "dictator's dilemma." In the case of Sudan, where anti-austerity protests have been raging for five days and...

Yesterday, a House Committee grabbed national attention by voting to approve a recommendation that Attorney General Eric Holder be held in contempt of Congress. The vote stemmed from the Department of Justice’s repeated refusals to release documents concerning the handling of an investigation known as “Fast and Furious” –...

“No iPad for you!” The sentiment may have evoked the fictional Soup Nazi, but the salesperson was completely serious. After hearing 19-year-old Sahar Sabet speaking Persian with her uncle, an Apple store employee refused to sell Sabet an...

If you thought passing the bar was hard, try winning one of the coveted EFF Cyberlaw Pub Quiz victory steins. Last night, the best legal minds in San Francisco scrambled to answer 7 rigorous rounds of cyberlaw trivia (one of Fenwick & West's teams pictured left). EFF's attorneys, technologists and...

Since March of this year, EFF has reported extensively on the ongoing campaign to use social engineering to install surveillance software that spies on Syrian activists. Syrian opposition activists have been targeted using several Trojans, including one disguised as a ...

Bahrain's Minister of State for Information Affairs, Samira Rajab, has announced that the government is preparing to introduce tough new laws to combat the "misuse" of social media. Like many Gulf states, Bahrain is doubling down on state censorship in response to a year of ongoing protests connected to...

New Draft of Vietnamese Internet Decree is Still Bad News for Freedom of Expression
The Vietnamese government’s draft of a new, problematic decree to regulate domestic Internet use is expected to become law at the end of the month. The 60-article document is filled with alarmingly vague language,...