We wrote earlier this month about the Consumer Review Freedom Act (S. 2044, H.R. 2110), a bill that would prohibit businesses from using form contracts to prevent their customers from sharing negative reviews of their products and services online, or using bogus copyright claims to censor reviews...

We were out on the streets this week to march against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement in the U.S. Capitol. We were there to demonstrate the beginning of a unified movement of diverse organizations calling on officials to review and reject the deal based on its substance, which...

Europe is very close to the finishing line of an extraordinary project: the adoption of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a single, comprehensive replacement for the 28 different laws that implement Europe's existing 1995 Data Protection Directive. More than any other instrument, the original Directive has created...

The Peruvian digital rights organization, Hiperderecho, together with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, launched ¿Quién Defiende Tus Datos? (Who Defends Your Data?) today, a report that evaluates the privacy practices of digital communication companies that Peruvians use every day. Along with similar reports published earlier this year in ...

In what we very much hope launches a “race to the top” to protect online fair use, today YouTube announced a new program to help users fight back against outrageous copyright threats. The company has created a ‘Fair Use Protection’ program that will cover legal costs of users who, in...