Dear Friend of Press Freedom,Rümeysa Öztürk has been facing deportation for 234 days for co-writing an op-ed the government didn’t like. As we’ll discuss during an online panel Tuesday, the government hasn’t stopped targeting journalists for removal. Read on for news from Kansas, Ohio, and more.Kansas county …
Plus: Shutting down the government doesn’t shut down the First Amendment
Plus: Administration ignores flotilla abuses
Plus: Tell your lawmakers to strengthen presidential library transparency
Plus: Journalist Mario Guevara has been deported
Plus: How noncitizen journalists can prepare for ICE
Plus: CBS’s real bias monitor is Donald Trump
Plus: Will secret law prevail in drug boat massacre?
Plus: Stop congressional secrecy bill
Plus: Disbar anti-press prosecutor
Plus: Israel kills journalists in Gaza to silence reporting
Plus: FPF’s barrage of FOIAs seeks to combat secrecy
Plus: New Jersey prosecutors ignore Constitution
Plus: Exposing atrocities against Palestinian journalists
A billboard in New York City’s Times Square urges Paramount Global not to settle Trump’s frivolous lawsuit to pay for the administration’s approval of a merger.
Plus: FOIA requests we filed this week and why we’re sharing
Plus: The case for making public records-based reporting free
Plus: Tell Congress that FOIA must apply to ICE’s secret prisons
Plus: Secret law provides cover for more killings
Plus: There shouldn’t be secret law. Pam Bondi didn’t get the memo
Plus: How is the FBI responding to FPF’s FOIA requests? Not well.
Plus: New report shows classification mistakes are rampant
Plus: 9/11 records turn 25 next year. They should be automatically declassified.
Plus: The JD Vance meme is harmless. But detaining someone for 18 hours over it and denying having any information about the detainment isn’t
Plus: more updates from FPF’s FOIA trenches, and how news deserts enable government secrecy.
There are a lot of good reasons to hate John Bolton. This isn’t one of them
Plus: What we’re doing about Trump’s D.C. takeover
Plus: the Church Committee uncovered the CIA’s worst spying abuses. Some of the committee’s own records may soon be declassified
Plus: Our top 10 FOIA requests and how you can help
Plus: A good ruling in New York cuts down on police misconduct secrecy
Plus: Sen. Warren’s new anti-corruption bill targets Trump’s presidential library
Plus: Transparency isn’t a fireable offense. Tulsi Gabbard didn’t get the memo
Plus: Claims Paramount settlement money will go towards a library deserve heavy scrutiny
Plus: IRS joins growing list of agencies with gutted FOIA offices
Plus: Don’t miss FPF’s upcoming virtual FOIA event
The names, email addresses, and chat histories of over 17,000 employees and external business contacts in the company’s Slack system were exposed thanks to one infected computer.
Despite their growing presence, AI-powered browsers aren’t ready for prime time when it comes to security
Online scamming has become an industry.
State-sponsored hacking collectives are myriad, but let’s focus on one
If you are traveling to the U.S. soon, you can be forgiven if your mind starts racing and the words on your screen start blurring together
That unsettled feeling you get when you are served an all-too-accurate advertisement? Data brokers at work
With Windows dropping support for Windows 10, you’ll need to upgrade — or consider another operating system entirely!
Apple’s new phone series has a secret superpower that will make mercenary spyware much harder to deploy
For one industry mining your data alongside telecom providers, it’s all about location, location, location
Right now it’s on Android beta, iOS and desktop are on their way soon, too.
Targeted malware is the sharpest edge of the spear, but simple steps also do a great deal to lower your risk of attack
The rise in device searches at U.S. ports of entry is consistent with ongoing upward trend — but there are things you can do to prepare
ICE officers used unsecured text messages to communicate about a target marked for deportation. Then, they added a stranger
AT&T rolled out a new feature to help customers lock down their accounts. But it’s not just AT&T — your phone company may have their own version as well
Mozilla warns of phishing attacks targeting developers of Firefox add-ons
Research shows that in recent months, Apple has notified at least a dozen Iranian iPhone users of targeted spyware, including those in civil society
A security researcher found that by altering the ID attached to Meta AI prompts, he could get their chatbot to spit out someone else’s prompt and AI-generated responses
Journalistic skepticism is pretty normal. But now we need to question someone’s literal voice. That’s a bit new
Getting back to the basics can help you mitigate the impact of mass data breaches
The best time to patch your connected devices is all the time
Check out the new resource pack for our “Digital security 101 — Crossing the US-Mexico border” module.
On the heels of our new module focused on U.S. southern border journalism, we are happy to announce a range of additional updates to modernize the rest of the J-school curriculum.
We’re thrilled to announce a new module focused on U.S. southern border journalism
Well, at least there’s a lot of stuff to talk to your class about
We’ve added new slides to our Malware module to help instructors get started sharing the good word about Dangerzone.
Hello again!It’s Martin, principal researcher at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), with our regular update on the U.S. Journalism School Digital Security Curriculum.J-school security curriculum highlightsTo account for new username and privacy options in recent versions of Signal, we made some small changes to the …
Hello again!It’s Martin, principal researcher at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), with our regular update on the U.S. Journalism School Digital Security Curriculum.Before we jump in, I want to share that we’re hiring a Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) consultant to help us develop a …
Join our email list to stay up to date on the issues and learn how you can help protect journalists and sources everywhere.
Thanks for subscribing to Freedom of the Press Foundation's mailing list. We'll send you opportunities to take action on combating government secrecy, protesting mass surveillance, and protecting reporter's rights.
