The arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov has helped foster the mistaken notion that the app is a standard end-to-end encrypted messenger. Learn more on that and other updates from our team in this week’s digital security newsletter.
Freedom of the Press
Telegram misrepresented amid founder’s arrest
The arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov has helped foster the mistaken notion that the app is a standard end-to-end encrypted messenger.
Politicians think the pros of avoiding journalists outweigh the cons. The only people who can change that are journalists themselves, by explaining to readers how official stonewalling impacts the quality of the news they consume.
Freedom of the Press
Harris is just the latest internet-era politician to stonewall the press
Political candidates think the pros of avoiding journalists outweigh the cons. The only people who can change that are journalists themselves
The NSA has finally come around to what everyone else already knew, old file formats can’t be used as an excuse to ignore FOIA requirements, especially when another department might still have the equipment. Now, we just have to wonder how many other valid FOIA requests they’ve rejected using this bogus rationale?
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With a little help from the National Archives, NSA finally releases Grace Hopper lecture. Watch it here.
Admiral Grace Hopper was a pioneering figure in early computing, developing the first compiler and architecting early compiled programming language...
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Another day, another ridiculous reason to deny the public access to records. The NSA shouldn't be able to duck their FOIA obligations by throwing ...
The Chicago police said they didn’t need training on journalists’ rights at protests to prepare for the DNC. But their “abysmal failure” this week proves otherwise. Officers who threaten and arrest journalists for doing their jobs should lose their own.
Freedom of the Press
Chicago police ignore warnings about press freedom at DNC protests
We warned them, in print and on the radio, that dispersing law-abiding journalists violates the First Amendment. They did it anyway
Meta is killing CrowdTangle, a tool used for years by journalists to track and fight misinformation online. By shutting it down amid public outcry and an upcoming presidential election, the tech giant is undermining its transparency efforts.
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Meta kills off misinformation tracking tool CrowdTangle despite pleas from researchers, journalists
Facebook and Instagram parent Meta Platforms shut down CrowdTangle, a tool widely used by researchers, watchdog organizations and journalists to mo...
A year after Marion County Record raid, authorities keep ignoring press rights — By @npub1gz62...8v8g' Advocacy Director Seth Stern
Freedom of the Press
A year after Marion County Record raid, authorities keep ignoring press rights
Kansas raid was unusually dramatic, but smaller scale violations are a serious and persistent problem
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Further accountability needed in Marion
Special prosecutors this week finally released their report on last August’s police raid of the Marion County Record. The report recommends crimi...
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This is VERY alarming. Cops and prosecutors have dreamed up plenty of convoluted theories to criminalize journalism, but the NYPD charging a reporter with a hate crime for documenting news has to be one of the most outrageous yet.
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NYC journalist who documented pro-Palestinian vandalism arrested on felony hate crime charges
A New York City journalist has been arrested on felony hate crime charges after filming a pro-Palestinian protest earlier this summer in which acti...
This law prohibiting journalists and others from recording cops up close is blatantly unconstitutional, as Louisiana's previous governor recognized in vetoing it. Good to hear that it's being challenged.
NOLA.com
Louisiana media outlets sue over police buffer law, citing First Amendment violation
A new Louisiana law has "grave implications" for the First Amendment rights of reporters and news organizations, the lawsuit says.