It's a critical moment in the global debate over privacy, security, and “backdoors” in encryption technology. Despite all that attention, President Obama has yet to come to a public position on backdoors—i.e., the government mandating, coercing, or pressuring companies to design their systems to give it special access to our...

Apple's recently-announced support for adblockers on iOS 9 provoked dramatic debate between those who were celebrating the news, and those who were angry over what they see as the company undermining the primary business model for online publishing and journalism.
While both sides of the debate have good points...

This summer, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse introduced an amendment to the flawed Cyber Information Sharing Act (CISA) that would make it even worse, by expanding the broken Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). EFF has proposed common sense changes to this federal anti-hacking law, many of...

Writing a letter with a pen has an odd feeling in a digital age. You pick your words carefully, without a delete key. You urge your hands to recall their best handwriting. You ponder about forms of address and how much space to leave; should I fill...

Patent trolls are a tax on innovation. The classic troll model doesn’t include transferring technology to create new products. Rather, trolls identify operating companies and demand payment for what companies are already doing. Data from Unified Patents shows that, for the first half of this year, patent trolls...

"Cyber-bullying" and other forms of online harassment are a serious problem. But as we have explained in the past, it is a challenge to craft laws or policies that address the harms caused by online harassment without unduly restricting speech or invading people’s privacy. New York tried and ...