For those seeking to censor information online, the weakest link is often precisely that—the humble hyperlink. Censoring or imposing costs or conditions on linking to information can be just as effective, and often easier, than controlling the information at its source. But without the freedom to link, the World Wide...

Ending the scourge of DRM has long been an important goal for EFF, and the need has only increased in recent years. As the evidence mounts that we're already deep into what EFF Special Consultant Cory Doctorow has dubbed the War On General Purpose Computing, efforts like the...

Update May 8, 2015: JPay has changed its terms of service and will no longer claim intellectual property rights over correspondence.
JPay, a company that provides digital communications systems to corrections facilities in at least 19 states, is charging inmates and their families an unusual fee to...

Tras el rechazo unánime en la Cámara de Diputados al proyecto de ley que pretende que compañías de telefonía e internet almacenen durante 12 meses los metadatos de todos los usuarios, la iniciativa volvió a los Senadores, quienes están de acuerdo con la desproporcional e innecesaria figura legal por lo...

The 2015 version of the USA Freedom Act, HR 2048/S.1123 passed out of the House Judiciary Committee this week, with a vote of 25 ayes and 2 noes. The Committee did not pass any amendments to the legislation. But the markup discussion revealed a lot about where...

The New Orleans Advocate recently published a shocking story that details the very real threats to privacy and civil liberties posed by law enforcement access to private genetic databases and familial DNA searching.In 1996, a young woman named Angie Dodge was murdered in her apartment in a small town...