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How important are social networking tools like Twitter and Facebook for international activists fighting for their liberty? Are these networks forging a new international power structure? Tunisian activist Sami Ben Gharbia will...

Network censorship and surveillance is a booming business. Censorship schemes continue to fragment the Internet and new censorship proposals are constantly introduced around the world, including in liberal democracies. (Lately governments have gotten fascinated by the idea of forcing ISPs to censor particular sites from the DNS, so users...

Peabody Energy is at it again, trying to stifle critical speech intended to call attention to the company's practices. Last year, Peabody tried to intimidate a website that spoofed the Peabody-sponsored "Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization (CCCU)." This week, Peabody targeted a website that focused on concerns...

Update: An official Senate version of the draft PROTECT IP Act has been released and is available here. This version changes the “interactive computer services” language mentioned in our post below to “information location tools,” a term that points back to section 512(d) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act....

EFF is thrilled to announce the newest member of our international team, Jillian York. Jillian is the Director for International Freedom of Expression -- an always-critical issue that has come into sharp relief over the last few months with the events in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, and beyond.
Jillian...

This past week has been trying in a number of countries, including China, where a new central agency has been established to oversee the Internet, in a move that some experts have said would allow for tighter regulations. At the same time, rumors of a possible Facebook deal...

California took another big step towards updating reader privacy today. The State Senate unanimously passed SB602, the Reader Privacy Act, which would bring book privacy law into the digital age. The bill prevents the disclosure of information about readers from booksellers without a warrant in a criminal case or...