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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, Deceptive Checkboxes Should Not Open Our Checkbooks, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 days, 6 hours ago

Last week, the New York Times highlighted the Trump 2020 campaign’s use of deceptive web designs to deceive supporters into donating far more money than they had intended. The campaign’s digital donation por […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, EFF Challenges Surreptitious Collection of DNA at Iowa Supreme Court, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 days, 10 hours ago

Last week, EFF, along with the ACLU and the ACLU of Iowa, filed an amicus brief in the Iowa Supreme Court challenging the surreptitious collection of DNA without a warrant. We argued this practice violates the […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, Am I FLoCed? A New Site to Test Google's Invasive Experiment, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 days, 10 hours ago

Today we’re launching Am I FLoCed, a new site that will tell you whether your Chrome browser has been turned into a guinea pig for Federated Learning of Cohorts or FLoC, Google’s latest targeted advertising exp […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, What Movie Studios Refuse to Understand About Streaming, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 4 days, 10 hours ago

The longer we live in the new digital world, the more we are seeing it replicate systemic issues we’ve been fighting for decades. In the case of movie studios, what we’ve seen in the last few years in str […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, Organizations Call on President Biden to Rescind President Trump’s Executive Order that Punished Online Social Media for Fact-Checking, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 4 days, 12 hours ago

President Joe Biden should rescind a dangerous and unconstitutional Executive Order issued by President Trump that continues to threaten internet users’ ability to obtain accurate and truthful information o […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, India’s Strict Rules For Online Intermediaries Undermine Freedom of Expression, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 4 days, 15 hours ago

India has introduced draconian changes to its rules for online intermediaries, tightening government control over the information ecosystem and what can be said online. It has created rules that seek to restrict […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, The EU Online Terrorism Regulation: a Bad Deal, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 4 days, 23 hours ago

On 12 September 2018, the European Commission presented a proposal for a regulation on preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online—dubbed the Terrorism Regulation, or TERREG for short—that con […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, Victory for Fair Use: The Supreme Court Reverses the Federal Circuit in Oracle v. Google, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 6 days, 5 hours ago

In a win for innovation, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that Google’s use of certain Java Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) is a lawful fair use. In doing so, the Court reversed the previous rulings by t […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, 553,000,000 Reasons Not to Let Facebook Make Decisions About Your Privacy, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 6 days, 6 hours ago

Another day, another horrific Facebook privacy scandal. We know what comes next: Facebook will argue that losing a lot of our data means bad third-party actors are the real problem that we should trust Facebook to […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, First Circuit Upholds First Amendment Right to Secretly Audio Record the Police, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 6 days, 8 hours ago

EFF applauds the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit for holding that the First Amendment protects individuals when they secretly audio record on-duty police officers. EFF filed an amicus brief in the […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, Maine Should Take this Chance to Defund the Local Intelligence Fusion Center, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 1 week, 2 days ago

Maine state representative Charlotte Warren has introduced LD1278 (HP938), or An Act To End the Maine Information and Analysis Center Program, a bill that would defund the Maine Information and Analysis Center […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, Ethos Capital Is Grabbing Power Over Domain Names Again, Risking Censorship-For-Profit. Will ICANN Intervene?, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 1 week, 3 days ago

Ethos Capital is at it again. In 2019, this secretive private equity firm that includes insiders from the domain name industry tried to buy the nonprofit that runs the .ORG domain. A huge coalition of nonprofits […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, Content Moderation Is A Losing Battle. Infrastructure Companies Should Refuse to Join the Fight, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 1 week, 3 days ago

It seems like every week there’s another Big Tech hearing accompanied by a flurry of mostly bad ideas for reform. Two events set last week’s hubbub apart, both involving Facebook. First, Mark Zuckerberg took a new […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, The FCC Wants Your Broadband Horror Stories: You Know What to Do, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 1 week, 3 days ago

At long last, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is asking for your broadband experiences. When you submit your experiences here, you will let the FCC know whether you have been adequately served by your […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, Tenth Circuit Misses Opportunity to Affirm the First Amendment Right to Record the Police, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 1 week, 3 days ago

We are disappointed that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit this week dodged a critical constitutional question: whether individuals have a First Amendment right to record on-duty police officers.
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, EFF to Court: Don’t Let Pseudo-IP Thwart Speech, Innovation, and Competition, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 1 week, 4 days ago

The threats to online expression and innovation keep coming. One that’s flown under the radar is a misguided effort to convince the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to allow claims based on the “right of pub […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, Schools Can’t Punish Students for Off-Campus Speech, Including Social Media Posts, EFF Tells Supreme Court, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 1 week, 4 days ago

Online Comments Made Outside School Are Fully Protected by the First AmendmentWashington, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the Supreme Court to rule that when students post on social media or s […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, Google Is Testing Its Controversial New Ad Targeting Tech in Millions of Browsers. Here’s What We Know., on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 1 week, 5 days ago

Today, Google launched an “origin trial” of Federated Learning of Cohorts (aka FLoC), its experimental new technology for targeting ads. A switch has silently been flipped in millions of instances of Google Chr […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, Crowdfunding Legal Fees Is Not a Crime, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 1 week, 5 days ago

A piece in USA Today describes how a number of Capitol Hill rioters are utilizing online fundraising platforms to raise funds to cover legal fees, only to find their accounts shut down. This is prompting an online […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, Local Franchising, Big Cities, and Fiber Broadband, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 1 week, 5 days ago

In 2005, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made a foundational decision on how broadband competition policy would work with the entry of fiber to the home. In short, the FCC concluded that competition […]
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