By Aaron Mackey Copyright law cannot be used as a shortcut around the First Amendment’s strong protections for anonymous internet users, a federal trial court…
By Aaron Mackey The City of Fullerton, California has abandoned a lawsuit against two bloggers and a local website. The suit dangerously sought to expand…
By Aaron Mackey and David Greene President Joe Biden on Friday rescinded a dangerous and unconstitutional Executive Order issued by President Trump that threatened internet…
By Aaron Mackey, India McKinney, and Jason Kelley Section 230, a key law protecting free speech online since its passage in 1996, has been the…
By Aaron Mackey At a time when the federal government is collecting and creating massive amounts of digital data that can implicate people’s privacy and…
By Aaron Mackey Federal law enforcement in Seattle sought an average of one court order a day to disclose people’s sensitive information such as calling…
By Andrew Crocker and Aaron Mackey EFF has long fought to end the FBI’s ability to impose gag orders via National Security Letters (NSLs). They…
By Aaron Mackey The FBI must delete its memo documenting a journalist’s First Amendment activities, a federal appellate court ruled this week in a decision…
By Aaron Mackey A Motherboard investigation revealed in January how any cellphone users’ real-time location could be obtained for $300. The pervasiveness of the practice,…
By Andrew Crocker and Aaron Mackey A federal district court in San Francisco has ruled strongly in favor of our Freedom of Information Act lawsuit…
By Aaron Mackey EFF’s case challenging NSA spying, Jewel v. NSA, has come further than any case trying to end the government’s mass surveillance programs….
By Aaron Mackey A federal court’s ruling earlier this week has blunted a key provision of the surveillance reform law that required the government to…
By Dave Maass, Hayley Tsukayama, Camille Fischer, and Aaron Mackey The cause of government transparency finally broke through to the popular zeitgeist this year. It…
By Aaron Mackey The public will learn how often federal investigators in Seattle obtain private details about your communications, such as who you called and…