It made me feel like I wasn’t human. It made me feel like a criminal.
Those are the words of 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, a smart young student who is also Muslim, and who was arrested just for bringing a home made clock to school to show to...

Next week the Department of Justice will likely decide whether to issue a grant to the Los Angeles Police Department to purchase 700 body-worn video cameras. Because LAPD’s body camera policy fails to ensure accountability and transparency and would, in fact, hide almost all camera footage from the public,...

A federal appeals court sided with EFF yesterday on several of the major questions at issue in the long-running Lenz v. Universal copyright case. Lenz—sometimes referred to as the “Dancing Baby” case because it centers on a 29-second home video of a toddler dancing with a song by...

Celebrating the First Certificate From Let’s Encrypt
Today we mark an important milestone in our march to encrypt all of the Web: the first-ever certificate issued by Let’s Encrypt.
Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, open-source certificate authority (CA). The goal is to revolutionize encryption on...

Trade secrets are seeing a resurgence of attention by policymakers at home and around the world. While there can be legitimate reasons to keep commercially valuable information secret, particularly amongst those with whom it has been shared in confidence, the latest trade secrets push goes further, potentially entangling whistleblowers and...

Popular Dating Site Has No Love for Strong Security
Back in 2012, EFF first called out OKCupid for failing to safeguard user data by not implementing HTTPS site-wide.
Three years later, OKCupid still hasn’t fixed the problem. For users who haven’t upgraded to paid accounts, their emails,...

Update September 15, 2015: The Kilton Library board has met and, after hearing from Tor supporters in the community and the 4,314 people who signed our petition, have unanimously opted to reinstate the library's relay. Congratulations to the activists from the Tor Project and the Library Freedom Project who've worked...