The Council of Europe's committee Moneyval says Malta isn't seriously committed to fighting high-level money laundering, bribery, and corruption cases.

An updated version of the popular Ricochet anonymous contact service will offer users further protection from hackers and government trackers.

Three of four Australians are worried that Federal Police raids on journalists and a growing clampdown on reporters digging into alleged government wrongdoing and secrecy is a threat to press freedom.

Australia’s three largest media organizations teamed up to fight back after police raids. The organizations want journalists exempt from national security laws passed since 2012 that "would put them in jail for doing their jobs.”

Increasing its growing stranglehold on the media, and ignoring the concerns of the European Union, a court in Turkey has indicted 38 people, including two journalists from the financial news agency Bloomberg

An Australian Federal Police raid on the country's public broadcaster ABC after reports that military forces were being investigated for possible war crimes in Afghanistan was designed to silence the media, the network's chief said.

The journalists could be charged with holding classified information, including that provided by David McBride, a whistleblowing former military lawyer

Police entered the Sydney headquarters of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in on June 5, the day after authorities searched the Canberra home in the country's capital of Sunday Telegraph Political Editor Annika Smethurt over her 2018 story revealing a government plan to spy on citizens, outraging journalists and media advocates

In a statement, the AFP said the warrant was related “to the alleged publishing of information classified as an official secret, which is an extremely serious matter that has the potential to undermine Australia’s national security”

Blueprint joins a group of 47 technology giants and digital security organizations who have condemned a proposal that would silently add a law enforcement participant to a group chat or call

Despite a strong California shield law allowing journalists to protect their sources, San Francisco police used a sledgehammer to smash through the door of the home of a freelance journalist and confiscated his electronic equipment