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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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“It’s extremely important for people to do some threat modeling,” EFF’s tells the . “Think about what information Twitter has, who is likely to come asking for it and how they are likely to do so.”
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Hoy en #HablemosdePrivacidad compartimos un interesante debate sobre la Dimensión Política y Social de la Protección de Datos junto a de , Ricardo del y Farid Amed de con la conducción de
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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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The police declared him innocent, but Google decided otherwise.
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While we work on the new season, you can catch up on past episodes of 's "How to Fix the Internet!"
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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
Justifications police can use to deploy drones
1. emergency situation involves the risk of death/bodily
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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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Criminal punishment for defamation against public officials disproportionately limits freedom of expression. Indonesians deserve a better Criminal Code, one that complies with human rights standards.
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Google revisa las fotos de su familia y luego opta por desautorizar a la policía y aplicar sus propias sanciones.
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Desde USA hasta la UE, Los gobiernos quieren hurgar en nuestros dispositivos constantemente con la excusa de combatir el abuso de menores. Deberíamos estar preocupados.
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Sabemos poco sobre el enorme sistema de escaneo que usan las empresas tecnológicas buscando abusos a menores. Pero sí que sabemos que no siempre funcionan bien.
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From the US to the EU, governments want to constantly search our devices in the name of fighting child abuse. We should be worried.
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Last week's OFAC listing of "Tornado Cash" as a sanctioned entity has created much uncertainty. One thing is clear, if they government intended to list a piece of open source code, the First Amendment is implicated.
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Insistimos, junto a numerosas organizaciones, que el proceso legal contra Ola Bini carece de sustento técnico y legal, instamos a las cortes ecuatorianas a respetar la ley y los derechos fundamentales. 5/ eff.org/es/deeplinks/2
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Observaremos el juicio contra el experto informático Ola Bini. Haciendo seguimiento de un proceso falto de motivaciones técnicas o jurídicas y de garantías de derecho. 1/ eff.org/deeplinks/2021
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It also highlights the profits-before-user-privacy business model that we know has long existed at big social media platform companies and put users in danger.
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The Twitter whistleblower complaint raises questions about how well the company is managing security and employees' access to production systems handling user data.
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OFAC has legitimate concerns about ransomware payments and funds going to the DPRK, but the harm from fund transfers does not come from the creation, publication, and study of the Tornado Cash source code.
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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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Google reviews his family photos, then chose to second-guess the police and administer its own penalties.
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The police declared him innocent, but Google decided otherwise.
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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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After seven years, an act of legislation, and an EFF lawsuit, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has finally declassified 7 FISA court rulings that better illuminate how mass surveillance works.
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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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We know very little about the vast scanning systems tech companies run to hunt for child abuse. What we do know is that they don't always work right.
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Our meetup next month is with
about Technological Surveillance related to Abortion Criminalization, join us!
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Tech employees seek to build a better world, not the backbone of ICE’s deportation campaign. Find out what you can do about it at: stopspying.org/bigbadtech
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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
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We agree, it's time for cities to stop using ShotSpotter.
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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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“This is precisely the nightmare that we are all concerned about,” EFF’s tells ’ . “They’re going to scan my family album, and then I’m going to get into trouble.”
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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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