It’s Time to Oppose the New San Francisco Policing Ballot Measure (www.eff.org)
crossposted from !socialism...
Young People May Be The Biggest Target for Online Censorship and Surveillance—and the Strongest Weapon Against Them (www.eff.org)
You Wanna Break Up With Your Bank? The CFPB Wants to Help You Do It. (www.eff.org)
GAO Report Shows the Government Uses Face Recognition with No Accountability, Transparency, or Training (www.eff.org)
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Apple and Google Are Introducing New Ways to Defeat Cell Site Simulators, But Is it Enough? (www.eff.org)
[EFF] California’s Middle Mile Network Must Bridge the Digital Divide, Not Reinforce It (www.eff.org)
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ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is. (www.eff.org)
Electronic Frontier Foundation to Present Annual EFF Awards to Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan, Library Freedom Project, and Signal Foundation (www.eff.org)
SAN FRANCISCO—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is honored to announce that Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan, Library Freedom Project, and Signal Foundation will receive the 2023 EFF Awards for their vital work in helping to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all...
FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users (www.eff.org)
FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users (www.eff.org)
The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide, the EFF says (www.eff.org)
FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users (www.eff.org)
We’re in an exciting time for users who want to take back control from major platforms like Twitter and Facebook. However, this new environment comes with challenges and risks for user privacy, so we need to get it right and make sure networks like the Fediverse and Bluesky are mindful of past...
Young People Should Oppose the Kids Online Safety Act (www.eff.org)
You Can Help Stop These Bad Internet Bills (www.eff.org)
Generative AI Policy Must Be Precise, Careful, and Practical: How to Cut Through the Hype and Spot Potential Risks in New Legislation (www.eff.org)
Anxiety about generative AI is growing almost as fast as the use of the technology itself. Some of these concerns are reasonable, and some are fueled primarily by dramatic rhetoric from prominent figures in tech, entertainment, and national security. Something, they suggest, must be done to stave off any number of catastrophes,...
Expanding Broadband in Portland, The Time Is Now (www.eff.org)
[EFF] User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer (www.eff.org)
I found this interesting and was wondering how some of the larger instances handle the issues they outline such as...
What Reddit Got Wrong (www.eff.org)
Victory! New Jersey Court Rules Police Must Give Defendant the Facial Recognition Algorithms Used to Identify Him (www.eff.org)
Does Less Consumer Tracking Lead to Less Fraud? (www.eff.org)
The highlight of the research is that Apple users were less likely to be victims of financial fraud after Apple implemented the App Tracking Transparency policy. The results showed a 10% increase in the share of Apple users in a particular ZIP code leads to roughly 3% reduction in financial fraud complaints....
Victory! Montana’s Unprecedented TikTok Ban is Unconstitutional (www.eff.org)
Debunking the Myth of “Anonymous” Data | Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org)
Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data (www.eff.org)
This is why I think gnu taler is a great company and project
The U.S. Government’s Database of Immigrant DNA Has Hit Scary, Astronomical Proportions (www.eff.org)
The Protecting Kids on Social Media Act is A Terrible Alternative to KOSA (www.eff.org)
A new bill sponsored by Sen. Schatz (D-HI), Sen. Cotton (R-AR), Sen. Murphy (D-CT), and Sen. Britt (R-AL) would combine some of the worst elements of various social media bills aimed at “protecting the children” into a single law.