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Defending your civil liberties in the digital world.
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Award-winning Egyptian journalist Wael Abbas has been censored by YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo—and his story demonstrates the dire need for platforms to institute transparent practices.
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We break down the latest amendments to Europe's proposed link tax and upload filtering law. The bottom line: they're just as bad as before, and we need your help to fight them.
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Yesterday, we delivered a petition asking the U.S. Copyright Office to
keep roadblocks away from safe harbors
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The Ethiopian government needs to release Eskinder Nega, without forcing him to sign a false confession:
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Oregon is the latest state to introduce net neutrality legislation in the wake of the FCC's order in December
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EFF's Ernesto Falcon testified in front of the New Jersey General Assembly on ISP privacy today:

"Just last year half of all Americans had their personal information disclosed by the company Equifax. Yahoo had close to 1 billion email accounts breached. As ISPs begin to exploit personal information to the fullest extent the law will allow them, they too will become targets.

Will a company have the information it collects and stores be breached is no longer the relevant question.

The question we should ask is what laws did we have in place to constrain their desire to monetize everything we do online with 3rd parties when that breach occurs.”
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"I've always been something of a psychic canary in the cosmic coal mine - and thus particularly susceptible to invisible turbulence - and I'm telling you one thing about the present: Surf's up!" - John Perry Barlow
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A new piece of U.S. legislation threatens the data privacy of the entire world. The CLOUD Act is a terrible solution to how law enforcement agencies get their hands on data stored outside their borders.
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A pernicious American law, Section 1201 of the DMCA, stands between the Internet of Defective Things and your right to know about those defects and remediate them.
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When kids apply for the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, they fully transfer the copyright for their submission to Scholastic—even if they don't win—and often without realizing it.
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