Major entertainment companies are asking the courts for more and more power over the basic operation of the Internet. On Tuesday, the major U.S. record labels filed suit against a Florida startup called Aurous, which is developing a music player application that uses BitTorrent. We’ve all seen this...

According to an award-winning paper presented at a security conference earlier this week by a group of prominent cryptographers, the NSA has likely used its access to vast computing power as well as weaknesses in the commonly used TLS security protocol in order to spy on encrypted communications, including...

The Marco Civil Da Internet, Brazil's Internet bill of rights, was a unique achievement in modern law. Net users, academics, technologists, businesses and representatives of government all contributed to it in a lengthy consultation process, conducted using the very technology it was constructed to defend. Its...

Meet Barak Weinstein, EFF’s new executive assistant. Barak will be assisting EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn and EFF Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel Kurt Opsahl. This is Barak's second tour at EFF—he was EFF's first legal secretary a decade ago, and he's excited to be back with the organization.
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Happy Ada Lovelace Day! Please join us in commemorating the life of Ada Lovelace by celebrating the achievements – past and present – of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Ada Lovelace was born two centuries ago this year, and is widely recognized as a visionary who...

As of this month, 567 relays from our 2014 Tor Challenge are still up and running—more than were established during the entire inaugural Tor Challenge back in 2011. To put that number in perspective, these nodes represent more than 8.5% of the roughly 6,500 public relays currently active...