North Dakota needs to immediately drop its outrageous charges against journalist Amy Goodman

It's blatantly unconstitutional to prosecute reporters for doing their job.  

When The News Reads You Back: Why Journalists Need to Stand Up for Reader Privacy

When you are reading the news, it is reading you back. According to new research out of the University of Pennsylvania visiting news websites exposes you to more than twice …

Our statement on Congress passing the USA Freedom Act, the NSA 'reform' bill

Today the Senate passed a version of the USA Freedom Act, a bill touted by its authors as surveillance reform that will end the NSA’s mass, suspicionless collection of …

Our brief in support of Twitter's lawsuit against the US government for violating the First Amendment

Yesterday, NYU Technology Law & Policy Clinic filed a legal brief on behalf of Freedom of the Press Foundation in Twitter's important lawsuit against the government for violating their First …

Our brief in support of Twitter's lawsuit against the US government for violating the First Amendment

Yesterday, NYU Technology Law & Policy Clinic filed a legal brief on behalf of Freedom of the Press Foundation in Twitter's important lawsuit against the government for violating their First …

British spy agency intercepted emails of journalists, considers them 'threats' alongside terrorists and hackers

Newly disclosed documents from Edward Snowden, revealed today by the Guardian, show that the British spy agency (and close NSA partner) GCHQ intercepted emails from many of the US …

Dangerous Law In Australia Could Criminalize Basic Reporting and Gut Internet Freedom

Earlier today, the Australian Senate passed a sweeping new ‘anti-terror’ law that will allow the Australian government to conduct mass surveillance on all of its citizens, will make whistleblowing on …

It’s Time for a Real Debate on Reader Privacy

Last week longtime local publisher Howard Owens, founder of the online news site the Batavian, launched a new publication covering Wyoming County in upstate New York. Buried in a parenthetical …

Judge Orders FBI to Conduct New Search for Documents on Internet Activist Aaron Swartz

A federal court judge on Monday ordered the FBI to conduct a new search for documents on Aaron Swartz, the late Internet activist who was being aggressively prosecuted by the …

Why It's Vital For Users to Fund Open-Source Encryption Tools

We’ve been crowd-funding donations for several open-source encryption tools for two months now. We've discussed before why these tools are so important from a press freedom perspective, but we’ve …