Plus: DOJ repeals protections for journalist-source confidentiality

Plus: Journalist targeted by Trump 1.0 discusses threats from Trump 2.0

Dear Friend of Press Freedom,Here are this week’s top press freedom stories, plus updates on our work at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF).A series to spotlight public-records-based local journalismA major reason why politicians are able to attack the press without much resistance is that the public …

Plus: Attacks on legal services are attacks on the press

Plus: When the First Amendment fails, try the Fifth

Plus: Max Frankel’s press freedom legacy

Plus: Catch us on NPR while you still can

Plus: Indiana authorities must drop charges against photojournalist

Plus: Will Democrats make it so expensive to run a social media platform that only those loyal to Trump can stay in business?

Plus: Why Senate must not confirm Ed Martin

Plus: Trump hides migrant detention away at Gitmo

Plus: Hypocrisy as deep as the Gulf of Mexico

Plus: Judges must stop facilitating Trump’s extortionate settlements

Plus: A perfect setup to criminalize reporting of corporate secrets

Plus: Biden’s press freedom legacy

Plus: Biden must pardon Julian Assange

Plus: No, TikTok is not regulated like the radio

Plus: Journalist speaks out about arrest

Plus: Executioners find new ways to hide

Report shows need for PRESS Act

Plus: RFK Jr. says “We’re going to try to get as close as we can to total transparency.”

Plus: Excessive government secrecy might be bad for your investment portfolio

Plus: Tulsi Gabbard wants to declassify information that “serves the public interest.” But who is determining what’s in the public interest?

Plus: Which FOIA offices might be closed next

The White House isn’t complying with the Presidential Records Act (again)

Plus: Wired drops FOIA reporting paywall. Will other media outlets follow?

Plus: A judge ruled DOGE is likely subject to FOIA. But that doesn’t mean we’re guaranteed to see its records.

Plus: The government’s excuse for keeping a climate report hidden is easily disproved

Plus: Trump administration attacks the advisory committees that keep the government honest

Plus: Don’t be mad DOGE posted classified budget information. Intelligence agencies’ budgets should be public

Plus: Why the Federal Aviation Administration’s safety reports should be public

Plus: Why should the public have to wait until 2034 to file FOIA requests with DOGE?

Disappearing government data, transparency double-standards — another busy week tracking government secrecy

Plus: President Trump’s first week back in office was a busy one, with many orders worsening government secrecy

Plus: Will Trump keep trying to flush presidential records down the toilet?

Plus: Be skeptical when government says the sky is falling anytime classified documents enter public domain

Plus: Trump may fire the archivist. She can still fight secrecy

Plus: The CIA drugged unsuspecting Americans as part of its mind-control research programs.

Plus: a look back at 2024

Plus: U.S. government declassifies 1960 report stating Israeli nuclear site was for weapons

The lawsuit also reveals more about how NSO Group executed its attacks on WhatsApp users, including journalists.

Look, neither one of us wants this. But we’re going to have to keep talking about how defense officials are using Signal in unusual ways

Third-party cookie ad tracking in Chrome is here to stay. If you’re sticking with Chrome, let’s talk about some safer settings.

The Signalgate saga continues. This time, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sent operational Yemen missile strike details to his wife and brother. Fortunately you can learn from Hegseth’s mistakes.

If you’re like me, you’re thinking about whether to buy electronics ahead of potential tariffs, and how long those devices will receive updates

A transparency win in a case concerning backdoor requests to Apple 

Friends don’t let friends show the national security adviser is on their Venmo contact list

The editor-in-chief of The Atlantic is added to a Signal group chat discussing national security information — presumably by accident

If our digital security trainer were in charge of data broker services, he might keep his cards closer to the vest. But that’s just him

Browser extensions are powerful, but not all are trustworthy. Here’s how to scale back to the ones you trust

Google updates its “Results about you” tool to help users remove unwanted or outdated information about themselves

After government demands for global access to Apple’s end-to-end encrypted iCloud, the company disables the feature regionally

While X might be able to block links, it will have a tougher time blocking Signal usernames

The “snoopers’ charter” order for access to end-to-end encrypted iCloud accounts applies globally

Ever linked a new device to your Signal account, only to find you didn’t get your old messages? No longer!

In one of his first moves as president, Trump disbands cybersecurity board tasked with investigating Chinese attacks on U.S. telecoms

Let’s talk about protecting your well-being by prioritizing what security risks you want to address.

The New York Times reports media organizations are locking down their communications amid threats to the press.

Following CEO Pavel Durov’s arrest, the messaging app is giving more user IP addresses and phone numbers to U.S. authorities

Trump attorneys, incoming officials lay out intentions to use the legal system to bully media and investigate leaks

Canvas breach, Instagram account hijacking via chatbots, and more

A revamped digital security 101 module is coming soon!

Want to learn how to teach “digital security 101” in your J-school? Of course you do!

Check out the latest updates to our digital security 101, authentication, and malware modules.

We’ve made updates to our “Digital security 101” module, and more.

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 …