EFF has joined seventy human rights and free speech organizations in calling on the Syrian government to release Mazen Darwish, Hani Al-Zitani and Hussein Ghrer, three free speech activists who were arrested on February 16, 2012 in a raid on the offices of the Syrian Center for Media...

Here at EFF we rely heavily on freely licensed software to run our websites, organization, and activism campaigns. Unlike proprietary software that restricts users from tinkering with the programs they run, free software carries with it the ability to modify, study, share, and improve a program's source code. From a...

Western economic sanctions aimed at Russia have had a disproportionately negative effect on Crimea's IT industry, writes Sergey Kozlovsky. The sanctions, imposed after Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region, have forced Visa and MasterCard to remove support for bank cards in the region, Apple to block apps from Crimean...