On February 15, a verdict will be handed down that determines whether or not the Tunisian Internet Agency (ATI) will need to censor pornography on the Internet. Last May, after receiving--and unsuccessfully attempting to block--an order to censor such websites, the ATI appealed the decision citing, among other things, a...

Update: The hearing has concluded and the verdict will be read out on April 30th.
The trial of Chiranuch Premchaiporn, director of one of Thailand’s most popular alternative news sites who was arrested in October 2010 continues on Tuesday, 14 February following a 5-month recess. Jiew,...

2011 was by many accounts ‘the year of the protester.’ From Tunisia to Oakland, activists took to the streets—and to social networks—to express themselves and their grievances. But while many were successful in using online tools in their activism, others faced grave consequences.
So far, 2012 hasn’t been...

This week has seen a marked increase in the blocking and filtering of certain kinds of Internet traffic in Iran. The Iranian government has not openly acknowledged these new measures, but they are widely thought to be preliminary steps towards a nation-wide Halal Internet that would cut off a...

Hamza Kashgari is under threat. The blogger and journalist fled to Malaysia from Saudi Arabia on February 8 after tweets he wrote about the Prophet Mohammed provoked clerics to demand he be tried for apostasy and members of the public to call for his murder. After arriving in Malaysia on...

EFF is pleased to announce that our legal director and general counsel, Cindy Cohn, will be honored as a champion of the First Amendment by the Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California Chapter.
Cindy is one of a dozen recipients of this year’s James Madison Award honoring local...

While copyright owners claim that they need anti-circumvention laws to address copyright infringement, twelve years’ experience with the U.S. DMCA provisions demonstrates that overbroad digital locks laws can wreak havoc on lawful, non copyright-infringing activities, stifle free speech and scientific research, and harm innovation and competition. The issue is that...