Last week, the 34th Annual Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners’ Conference was held in Punta del Este, Uruguay. The event brings together international regulators whose mandate is to uphold individuals’ rights to privacy. Preceding the official gathering of data protection authorities was The Public Voice, a daylong event hosted by...

If there's one thing Congress got right when it passed the Stored Communications Act (SCA) in 1986, it was prohibiting civil litigants from accessing the contents of electronic communications stored by communications providers. Otherwise, every civil dispute would result in myriad requests for content like emails, tweets, and Facebook...

­The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments today in a case called Kirtsaeng v. Wiley, and their final decision could help shape the future of "first sale," a legal doctrine that underpins the right to sell, lend, or give away the things you buy, even if those things...

One year ago, EFF rang alarm bells about SOPA and PIPA — Internet censorship bills threatening online freedom and the very structure of the Internet. Not long after, our members and the Internet community stood up to misguided politicians and deep-pocketed lobbyists and won, sinking SOPA and PIPA forever....

Yesterday, EFF joined in an Ask Me Anything (AMA) thread on Reddit about Internet freedom with a particular focus on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement.
EFF's Adi Kamdar, Carolina Rossini, Maira Sutton, Mark M. Jaycox, and Trevor Timm...

On last Thursday’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart boldly went where no mainstream reporter has gone so far this election cycle: asking President Barack Obama why has he embraced Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program after campaigning against it on civil liberties grounds. While Stewart’s question was commendable, Obama’s answer was puzzling...