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  1. 37 minutes ago

    This may be the best chance we get for years to ban federal use of face surveillance and withhold some federal tax dollars from paying for this invasive and dangerous technology.

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  2. 2 hours ago

    “They’ve said they don’t have any plans to do worse things with this technology, but this just feels, at this point, naïvely optimistic.” - EFF Senior Staff Technologist

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  3. 3 hours ago

    The Minnesota Fusion Center, a federal-state law enforcement partnership, has been surveilling water protectors who are trying to protect their land and water sources from tar sands pipelines.

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  4. 4 hours ago

    To help visualize the problem of surveillance, we made this cross section from overhead to underground—to show how these technologies and legal authorities overlap and how they disproportionately impact the lives of marginalized communities.

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  5. 5 hours ago

    If Facebook doesn’t bless your project, it can sue you, deplatform you, and brick your devices. That is why we need to protect research and innovation with competitive compatibility.

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  6. 6 hours ago

    Tech companies monetize and weaponize our data. But forcing them to share it with competitors and governments, without user consent, would make the problems of the surveillance economy worse.

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  7. 8 hours ago

    This patent troll wants $8,500 from websites that use —if they pay immediately. If they fight back, the demand goes up to $70,000.

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  8. 21 hours ago

    Hasta una puerta trasera bien documentada, pensada cuidadosamente y con un alcance limitado sigue siendo una puerta trasera.

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  9. 23 hours ago

    The NYPD has a formerly secret surveillance slush fund which was uncovered by community groups, including , a member of the Electronic Frontier Alliance.

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  10. 24 hours ago

    In countries from the UK to Indonesia, it will be easy for governments to ask Apple to expand their message-scanning program—and hard for Apple to say no.

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  11. Aug 14

    Tech rights are workers rights. Doordash should let its workers know what it knows about orders and tips.

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  12. Aug 14

    Legislators around the country have proposed laws that would require tech companies to share sensitive personal information with governments and small businesses. Here’s why that’s misguided:

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  13. Aug 14

    Building new Captcha tests is a worthy endeavor. Sending out patent demand letters to get money from current Captcha users—not so much.

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  14. Aug 14

    EFF Director of Federal Affairs tells Gizmodo, “There is no way for outside groups like ours or anybody else—researchers—to look under the hood to see how well it’s working, is it accurate, is this doing what its supposed to be doing.”

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  15. Aug 14

    Facebook’s latest attack on researchers is built on a flimsy pretext that kills innovation.

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  16. Aug 14

    Local advocacy is essential to ensuring technology supports the intellectual freedom at the heart of a democratic society. Join the fight by connecting with our grassroots network, the Electronic Frontier Alliance.

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  17. Aug 14

    Tech giants need to be pushed to make it easy for users to leave, or to use other tools to interact with their data without leaving entirely. Tell your representatives to pass the ACCESS Act

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  18. Aug 14

    Sharing-economy companies spy on restaurants and us, but the solution is not to force them to share their data—it’s to protect user rights.

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  19. Aug 13

    EFF Director for International Freedom of Expression points out that Apple’s plan assumes “that every other culture has the same ideas about what constitutes nudity and sexuality as the US does.”

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  20. Aug 13

    Para los países inclinados a la censura de contenidos, el programa de escaneo de Apple es un buen comienzo; solo querrán algunos ajustes más.

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