For years, Tunisians suffered in relative media silence as the Ben Ali regime curtailed digital rights, blocking websites and surveilling citizens. Then, thanks to the hard work of Tunisian free expression advocates who for many years worked to raise awareness of the country’s pervasive Internet controls, censorship fell...

UPDATE: We held a very successful Boot Camp on Sept. 9! Thanks very much to our panelists and everyone who participated. We've recorded the panel, which you can access here. Continue to watch this space for additional resources for app developers and other innovators who have been the target...

Some bad ideas just won't die. In 2008, the Brazilian Senate passed a cybercrime bill that would have limited freedom of expression and threatened privacy online. Strong public opposition, including a speech by then-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in which he denounced the bill, prevented it...

More than five years ago, EFF filed the first lawsuit aimed at stopping the government's illegal mass surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans' private communications. Whistleblower evidence combined with news reports and Congressional admissions revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) was tapped into AT&T’s domestic...

Current EFF members and donors are invited to join Senior Staff Attorneys Marcia Hofmann and Kurt Opsahl for drinks at a secret Seattle location on Wednesday, August 31st, to discuss that day's hearings on EFF's warrantless wiretapping cases before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The court...

We've watched this year as Amazon, Google, and Apple have raced to roll out cloud-based music locker services. Each of these company's services signals something in common: an apparent fear of liability for de-duplicating files uploaded by their customers. (De-duplicating means that the service does not store multiple...

On Tuesday, we reported that Argentina's National Telecommunications Commission (CNC) had issued a directive to local ISPs to block two websites--leakymails.com and leakymails.blogspot.com--in response to an order from a federal judge.
Today, on Google's Latin America blog (in Spanish), Senior Policy Counsel Pedro Less Andrade writes that...