Privacy

The nation’s laws have fallen well behind the technological advances of the Internet Age, and, as a result, the privacy of every American has ...

Freedom of speech and assembly are not only for the bold. Timid citizens also have a right to speak and assemble, without putting their ...

NetChoice, LLC v. Bonta, argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on July 17, 2024.

Sometimes it's foolish to speak publicly and anonymity is warranted.

One of the few politically unifying events of the past year was the shared response to then-presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s plan to abolish anonymity on social ...

The Institute has just filed an appeal brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to challenge unconstitutional policies that chill ...

This month marked the 10th anniversary of the Tea Party scandal: The first public admission by then-Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner that the IRS had ...

Institute for Free Speech Chairman and Founder Bradley A. Smith discussed the fundamental importance of safeguarding Americans’ ability to speak freely at a House ...

Proposition 211 harms your right to join others to form groups to press for government reform. With the law’s forced disclosure of names and addresses, fewer ...

A new report says New York restricts more speech about government than any other state in the nation. The Institute for Free Speech, a ...