All the features that determine the security of a messaging app can be confusing and hard to keep track of. Beyond the technical jargon, the most important question is: What do you need out of a messenger? Why are you looking for more security in your communications in the first...

John Perry Barlow Internet Ideas Symposium Saturday, April 7, 2018, from 2 PM to 6 PM The Internet Archive at 300 Funston Ave, San Francisco, CA 94118 Join us for a celebration of the life and leadership of John Perry Barlow, the visionary co-founder of EFF and the Freedom of...

It’s been a rough month for online journalism, as a pair of ill-advised copyright decisions from federal courts in New York chip away at the legal protections that allow it to operate. EFF and many others are joining forces to push back. First, in Goldman v Breitbart et al., a...

A recent federal appeals court decision shows that at least one judge thinks border agents should get a warrant before conducting forensic searches of travelers’ cell phones. Although the majority of the three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in U.S. v. Vergara found...

No single messaging app can perfectly meet everyone’s security and communication needs, so we can’t make a recommendation without considering the details of a particular person’s or group’s situation. Straightforward answers are rarely correct for everyone—and if they’re correct now, they might not be correct in the future. At time...

With Facebook in a dominant position in hosting a huge portion of the world’s social conversation, we’ve been worried about the incredible power the company has accumulated and the risks that poses to privacy and democratic conversation. Last week’s news about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica has shown that our worst...