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Amazon's Ring Nation claims to be about “catching life’s most joyful moments by accident,’” EFF’s tells , but “for every funny moment they capture, they’re also capturing 4,000 moments you’d rather weren’t sitting on Amazon’s servers.”
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Drill music is a crucial mouthpiece of artistic and cultural expression. Yet, YouTube have spent the last four years working in partnership with London’s police force to censor the genre on the streaming platform, leading to more than 400 videos removed.
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Many online organizations don’t use anywhere near all the data that they collect on website visitors for any real insights. It’s simply a default. Here’s EFF’s guide to turning off the most blatant (and unnecessary) forms of tracking, and why to do so.
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When OFAC placed cryptocurrency mixer “Tornado Cash” on a sanctions list, GitHub removed the underlying code from their site. EFF is now representing who shared a fork of the source code for archival and educational purposes.
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Thanks again to the for its continuing support of EFF’s “How to Fix the Internet” podcast. Stand by for the next season, coming soon!
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How do we build a better digital world? @EFF has been trying to figure that out in its excellent podcast—How to Fix the Internet. impact.sloan.org/the-internet-i
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It is legitimately difficult for me to contemplate a situation where MPD would *want* to use drones, but *cant*, under these policies.
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How much power will MPD have with Drones??🤔 Justifications police can use to deploy drones👇🏾 1. emergency situation involves the risk of death/bodily 2. public event heightened risk to safety of participants or bystanders; 3. to counter the risk of a terrorist attack
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El bloqueo a internet no es nada nuevo y pone en jaque la libertad de expresión y la neutralidad de la red. Hoy el organizará una conversación sobre el tema. ¡Unete a nosotos para conocer más! en: bit.ly/IGFGT-AGO24
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Mandated monitoring of user content online has a chilling effect on the individual right to free speech and leads to a pernicious culture of self-censorship. Intermediaries should not be held liable if they choose not to remove content.
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When OFAC placed cryptocurrency mixer “Tornado Cash” on a sanctions list, GitHub removed the underlying code from their site. EFF is now representing who shared a fork of the source code for archival and educational purposes.
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The Net Neutrality and Broadband Justice Act sends a clear signal that it is time to reinstate net neutrality protections. But the FCC can’t make new rules without a fifth commissioner. We urge Congress to pass the bill and confirm Gigi Sohn.
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Cheers to all the players who made EFF's first poker tournament a big success! And many thanks to our hosts who made it sparkle and shine: , , and .
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It's another edition of Short Stacks courtesy of @PondHockey2 and this week Bob talks about a shooting in a casino, digital security experts playing poker for jelly beans and justice, and PokerStars losing an ambassador cardschat.com/news/short-sta
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Shotspotter "increases interactions between police and innocent civilians who just happen to be at the location of an alert," says Jacob Wourms w/ Campaign Zero. This "drastically increases the footprint of police ... in Black and Brown neighborhoods."
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The Supreme Court banned the practice of patenting basic social and cultural processes by just adding computer jargon into the patent application. This bill by would bring those patents back. Help us stop this bill.
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San Francisco: The SFPD is attempting to drastically expand the police’s ability to access live and historical footage from private surveillance cameras. Tell the Mayor and the Board of Supervisors to reject this surveillance overreach!!
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Electronic Frontier Alliance member is running an awesome Hacktoberfest this October in Durham. You’ve still got a few weeks to propose a talk.
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Hope everyone had an awesome Hacker Summer Camp! Now that the crew is back, we‘re going to be ramping things up around here. Save the date: 10/15 More announcements coming soon! Don’t forget our CFP is currently open. Submit your talk today! sessionize.com/bsidesrdu2022
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