Amazon Data Centers In Mississippi Have Already Raised Electricity Rates for Local Customers, Report Suggests

Flock Leaked Cops’ License Plate Searches via DuckDuckGo, Bing

Flock's accidental exposure of police license plate searches and investigation reasons via search engines demonstrates how surveillance… [more]

Afghanistan: Taliban Use Excessive Force against Protesters

Taliban's violent suppression of protesters and mass detention of women for dress code violations exemplifies authoritarian governance,… [more]

EU Asylum Pact Threatens Rights of People with Disabilities

EU asylum policy systematically excludes disability protections, creating conditions of state-enforced marginalization and rights… [more]

Amazon Data Centers In Mississippi Have Already Raised Electricity Rates for Local Customers, Report Suggests

Amazon data centers impose hidden electricity costs on local residents while operating under secretive contracts shielded from public… [more]

Flock Leaked Cops’ License Plate Searches via DuckDuckGo, Bing

Flock's accidental exposure of police license plate searches and investigation reasons via search engines demonstrates how surveillance… [more]

Afghanistan: Taliban Use Excessive Force against Protesters

Taliban's violent suppression of protesters and mass detention of women for dress code violations exemplifies authoritarian governance,… [more]

EU Asylum Pact Threatens Rights of People with Disabilities

EU asylum policy systematically excludes disability protections, creating conditions of state-enforced marginalization and rights… [more]

Israeli Displacement and Killings of Civilians in Lebanon Rage On

Documents systematic displacement and killing of civilians during armed conflict, demonstrating state violence and humanitarian… [more]

Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know Why

Documents how LLMs autonomously generate and amplify specific fictional narratives that flood digital spaces, demonstrating algorithmic… [more]

Indonesian Authorities Intensify Crackdown on Documentary

Indonesian authorities' apparent enforced disappearance of indigenous activist Yasinta Moiwend following her prominence in a documentary… [more]

Authorities Strip Citizenship from Dozens of Bahrainis

Mass revocation of citizenship targeting a religious minority group, rendering dozens stateless including infants, exemplifies… [more]

Tunisian journalist Khaoula Boukrim sentenced in absentia to 4 years in prison

State weaponization of vague cybercrime laws to prosecute and silence independent journalists through in absentia trials without due… [more]

Chicken heads sent to Indonesian news outlet after threats over coverage of Papua documentary

State or corporate actors use systematic intimidation and physical threats against journalists covering environmental destruction and… [more]

Gulf States: Repression of Migrant Workers During Conflict

Documents systematic repression of migrant workers and suppression of fundamental freedoms (expression, association, assembly) by Gulf… [more]

Gulf States: Phone searches, arrests exacerbate existing restrictions on trade unions, expression

Gulf states intensifying surveillance of migrant workers' communications, arrests, and restrictions on freedom of expression and assembly… [more]

CPJ calls on EU to support press freedom reform in Hungary

Documents systematic state censorship and media capture under Orbán regime where press became propaganda apparatus, exemplifying… [more]

ICE Defied Direct Order From Federal Judge and Re-Detained Elderly Palestinian

ICE deliberately violated a federal judge's direct order to re-detain an elderly man, demonstrating authoritarian disregard for judicial… [more]

Global: Risk profiling systems used to identify potential offenders are in breach of international law and must be banned – new report

Documents widespread use of AI-based risk profiling systems by governments in law enforcement, social services, and migration that violate… [more]

Momentum Builds to Rein In Domestic Spying Law — Whether or Not Bill Pulte Survives as Intel Chief

Article documents real efforts to reform mass domestic surveillance law (FISA 702) amid concerns about potential abuse by unqualified… [more]

The 702 Ultimatum: Warrant Requirement or Bust

Documents real-world mass surveillance authority enabling warrantless collection of Americans' digital communications, representing… [more]

Azerbaijani prosecutors seek up to 16 years in prison for defendants in Toplum TV case

State persecution of independent journalists through harsh criminal charges and imprisonment represents systematic censorship and… [more]

🔊 Mass Surveillance for… Loud Music? | EFFector 38.11

Documents widespread deployment of ALPR surveillance networks originally justified for safety but increasingly repurposed for low-level… [more]

In Comoros, journalist arrested for report on jailed ex-president’s health

State authorities arrest journalists and newspaper leadership for reporting on a jailed former president's health, exemplifying… [more]

Podcast: Google Employees Meme About How Bad Their AI Is

Documents Microsoft's intentional design of addictive AI systems and reveals corporate manipulation of AI search results, demonstrating… [more]

Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People

Documents systemic abuse of automated license plate reader technology by law enforcement for illegal personal stalking, exemplifying… [more]

Afghanistan: New code enabling child marriage compounds dismal situation for women’s and girls’ rights

Taliban decree legalizing child marriage represents state-enforced authoritarianism that eliminates consent and autonomy, qualifying as… [more]

“This World Cup has disenfranchised LGBT+ fans like no other”

Documents systematic persecution and exclusion of LGBT+ citizens from public spaces and cultural participation due to authoritarian state… [more]