Freedom of the Press Foundation

1 week ago | freedom.press | Martin Shelton

It’s the digital security training team at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), with security news that keeps you, your sources, and your devices safe. If someone shared this newsletter with you, please subscribe here. Last week, following a flight from Melbourne to Los Angeles, journalist Alistair Kitchen was detained and interrogated for 12 hours by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

3 weeks ago | freedom.press | Martin Shelton

It’s the digital security training team at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), with security news that keeps you, your sources, and your devices safe. If someone shared this newsletter with you, please subscribe here. 404 Media reports that an officer from the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office in Texas searched a nationwide database of more than 83,000 automated license plate reader cameras to monitor the whereabouts of a woman they said sought an abortion.

4 weeks ago | freedom.press | Max Abrams

As a reporter on the press freedom beat, Liam Scott chronicled abuses against journalists at home and abroad for Voice of America. But he was shocked when the experiences of those on the other side of the page became his own. In March, President Donald Trump signed an executive order suddenly gutting the United States Agency for Global Media, which oversees VOA.

4 weeks ago | freedom.press | Martin Shelton

It’s the digital security training team at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), with security news that keeps you, your sources, and your devices safe. If someone shared this newsletter with you, please subscribe here. In May 2024, Microsoft announced a new feature named Recall, which would take screenshots of Windows users’ activities every few seconds and retain them for later searches. Windows users could then use Microsoft’s Copilot AI to search through their previous activity.

1 month ago | freedom.press | Lauren Harper |Seth Stern

When the Trump administration quickly fulfilled our Freedom of Information Act request for a memo belying its own rationales both for mass deporting Venezuelans and for cracking down on leaks to the press, we had plenty of theories about why. Maybe someone in the FOIA office used our request as an opportunity to blow the whistle. Maybe it was some kind of mistake. But one possibility that never occurred to us was that administration higher-ups somehow thought that the memo made them look good.