If you operate your own website, be glad that you don't host it in South Korea (or if you do, you might want to rethink that). Whereas in the United States, an important law called CDA 230 protects you from liability for comments contributed by users to your website,...

Like so many of his friends and colleagues across the world, we were shocked and saddened to hear of the death of Caspar Bowden, the British privacy activist and co-founder of the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR).
Among a community filled with perceptive advocates for a better...

Today the European Parliament adopted an important resolution on Harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights [PDF]. The final document is the end product of the fearless work of Julia Reda MEP, rapporteur to the Parliament's Legal Affairs (JURI) committee, who wrote the original draft on...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation welcomes the appointment of Mr. Joseph Cannataci as the first-ever UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy. The President of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) appointed Mr. Cannataci last week following the March 2015 HRC resolution that called to appoint a new...

Last week, the New Zealand Parliament passed the Harmful Digital Communications (HDC) Act. The act was conceived over three years ago as an initiative to address online bullying among young New Zealanders. Since then, prompted by subsequent highly visible online scandals in the country, its scope...

Despite all of the evidence to the contrary, FBI Director Comey wants you to know that he doesn't want another crypto war. As he said today in hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), he just wants a discussion....

Last Wednesday, The Intercept published an expose on the NSA's XKeyscore program. Along with information on the breadth and scale of the NSA's metadata collection, The Intercept revealed how the NSA relies on unencrypted cookie data to identify users. As The Intercept says:
"The NSA’s ability to piggyback...

Update: More good news this morning as two more of the Zone 9 bloggers—Mahlet Fantahun and Edom Kassaye—were released along with Reeyot Alemu, an Ethiopian journalist who was jailed in June 2011 on terrorism charges. However Befeqadu Hailu, Natnael Feleke, Atnaf Berahane and Abel Wabela remain in prison. We will...

Too often, media and policymakers take seriously the claim of government officials that secret trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) promote and protect “Internet freedom,” even though the traditional guardians of Internet freedom—users and innovators who rely on it—have said precisely the opposite. Unfortunately, that’s likely because some...