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The Playpen Cases: Mass Hacking by U.S. Law Enforcement

In December 2014, the FBI received a tip from a foreign law enforcement agency that a Tor Hidden Service site called “Playpen” was hosting child pornography. The site's actual IP address was publicly available and appeared to resolve to a location within the U.S. After some additional investigation, the FBI...

The FCC Can't Save Community Broadband -- But We Can

Last year, while most of us were focused on the FCC’s Open Internet Order to protect net neutrality, the FCC quietly did one more thing: it voted to override certain state regulations that inhibit the development and expansion of community broadband projects. The net neutrality rules have since been ...

We Shouldn’t Wait Another Fifteen Years for a Conversation About Government Hacking

With high-profile hacks in the headlines and government officials trying to reopen a long-settled debate about encryption, information security has become a mainstream issue. But we feel that one element of digital security hasn’t received enough critical attention: the role of government in acquiring and exploiting vulnerabilities and hacking for...

Free Bassel Picnic

Bassel Khartabil is a technologist and free culture advocate who has been unjustly detained by the Syrian authorities since the beginning of the civil war. His many friends, colleagues and connected organizations, including EFF, have been calling for information on his whereabouts and his release.
Friends and supporters of...

Hollywood Forces Publishers Worldwide to California Court

San Francisco - Texas resident Matthew Pavlovich yesterday for a second time asked the California Supreme Court to reverse a lower court decision requiring him to defend a trade secret case in a California court. Pavlovich, who did not reside in or have any contact with California, has resisted being...

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