In a victory for millions of people in the U.S. who have placed telephone calls to locations overseas, EFF and Human Rights Watch have confirmed that the Drug Enforcement Administration’s practice of collecting those records in bulk has stopped and that the only bulk database of those records has been...

In an unusually direct attack on online privacy and free speech, the ruling regime of Kazakhstan appears to have mandated the country's telecommunications operators to intercept citizens' Internet traffic using a government-issued certificate starting on January 1, 2016. The press release announcing the new measure was published last week...

Digital analyzer. IMSI catcher. Stingray. Triggerfish. Dirt box. Cell-site simulator. The list of aliases used by the devices that masquerade as a cell phone tower, trick your phone into connecting with them, and suck up your data, seems to grow every day. But no matter what name cell-site simulators go...

It’s been a bad few weeks for the people of Bangladesh, made worse by the ham-handed internet censorship of its government. Their decision to block some online messaging services was a disproportionate and unnecessary attempt to silence all speech on a slapdash list of messenger applications.
Bangladesh society has...

What does the FBI want when it comes to the encryption “debate”?
At an oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, FBI Director James Comey offered what he called the “good news” that it’s not a debate at all. In fact, he said, government and the tech...

Real Encryption Means Encryption Without Compromises.
Updated 12/9/15
It’s a showdown over encryption, and we need your voice.
The Obama administration just responded to the 104,109 people who asked the president to stand up for strong encryption. The response—penned by Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer Ed...