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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, How California’s Broadband Infrastructure Law Promotes Local Choice, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 3 days, 2 hours ago

The legislative session has ended and Governor Newsom is expected to sign into law S.B. 4 and A.B. 14. These bills stand as the final pieces of the state’s new broadband infrastructure program. With a n […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, No, Tech Monopolies Don’t Serve National Security, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 3 days, 22 hours ago

In what appears to be a “throw spaghetti on the wall approach” to stopping antitrust reform targeting Big Tech, a few Members of Congress and a range of former military and intelligence officials wrote a let […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, What’s Up with WhatsApp Encrypted Backups, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 4 days, 1 hour ago

WhatsApp is rolling out an option for users to encrypt their message backups, and that is a big win for user privacy and security. The new feature is expected to be available for both iOS and Android “in the c […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance: Patents Aren't Products (Yet), on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 4 days, 19 hours ago

In EFF’s Catalog of Carceral Surveillance, we explore patents filed by or awarded to prison communication technology companies Securus and Global Tel*Link in the past five years. The dystopian technology the p […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, The Federal Government Just Can’t Get Enough of Your Face, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 4 days, 20 hours ago

There are more federal facial recognition technology (FRT) systems than there are federal agencies using them, according to the U.S. General Accounting Office. Its latest report on current and planned use of FRT […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, Texas’ Social Media Law is Not the Solution to Censorship, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 5 days, 1 hour ago

The big-name social media companies have all done a rather atrocious job of moderating user speech on their platforms. However, much like Florida’s similarly unconstitutional attempt to address the issue (S.B. 707 […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, Lessons From History: Afghanistan and the Dangerous Afterlives of Identifying Data, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 5 days, 2 hours ago

As the United States pulled its troops out of Afghanistan after a 20-year occupation, byproducts of the prolonged deployment took on new meaning and represented a new chapter of danger for the Afghan people. For […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, Surveillance Self-Defense Guides Now Available in Burmese, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 5 days, 2 hours ago

As part of our goal to expand the impact of our digital security guide, Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD), we recently translated the majority of its contents into Burmese. This repository of resources on […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, EFF and Allies Urge Council of Europe to Add Strong Human Rights Safeguards Before Final Adoption of Flawed Cross Border Surveillance Treaty, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 6 days ago

EFF, European Digital Rights (EDRi), the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC), and other civil society organizations have worked closely on recommendations to strengthen […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, Protestors Nationwide Rally to Tell Apple: "Don't Break Your Promise!", on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 6 days, 1 hour ago

Yesterday in San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, New York, and other cities across the U.S activists rallied in front of Apple stores demanding that the company fully cancel its plan to introduce surveillance software […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, Geofence Warrants Threaten Civil Liberties and Free Speech Rights in Kenosha and Nationwide, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 1 week, 3 days ago

In the days following the police shooting of Jacob Blake on August 23, 2020, hundreds of protestors marched in the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin. Federal law enforcement, it turns out, collected location data on […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, The Other 20-Year Anniversary: Freedom and Surveillance Post-9/11, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 1 week, 3 days ago

The twentieth anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2021 are a good time to reflect on the world we’ve built since then. Those attacks caused incalculable heartbreak, anger and fear. But by now it is clear t […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance: Voice Recognition and Surveillance, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 1 week, 3 days ago

Prison phone companies have been profiting off the desire for human connection for as long as they’ve been in business. Historically, there’s been one primary instrument for that connection — voice — and only on […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, Don’t Stop Now: Join EFF, Fight for the Future at Apple Protests Nationwide, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 1 week, 3 days ago

We’re winning—but we can’t let up the pressure. Apple has delayed their plan to install dangerous mass surveillance software onto their devices, but we need them to cancel the program entirely. Next week, just […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance: Prison Gaming and AR/VR Services, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 1 week, 4 days ago

No matter how many rights are taken away from people in prison, no matter how brutally they are treated by the prison industrial complex, there is one right so fundamental, so essential, that even controversial […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, EFF Activists To Lead Protest Demanding Apple Cancel iPhone Scanning Program and Keep Its Privacy Promises To Customers, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 1 week, 4 days ago

Demonstrations Planned at Apple Stores in San Francisco, Boston, Portland, and AtlantaSan Francisco—Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) activists will lead a protest on Monday, September 13, at 6 pm PT, d […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, EFF to Court: FOIA Requires ICE to Release Arrest and Deportation Database Records With Privacy Protections, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 1 week, 5 days ago

The Freedom of Information Act requires U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to disclose deidentified data that would enable greater public oversight of the agency while protecting the privacy of […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, EFF to Council of Europe: Cross Border Police Surveillance Treaty Must Have Ironclad Safeguards to Protect Individual Rights and Users’ Data, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 1 week, 5 days ago

This is the third post in a series about recommendations EFF, European Digital Rights, the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic, and other civil society organizations have submitted […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance – Mobile Correctional Facility Robots, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 1 week, 5 days ago

There are too many people in U.S. prisons. Their guards are overworked, underpaid, and prone to human errors. Some have taken this as a sign that we need to rework our criminal justice system. Prison technology […]
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post, The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance: Exploring the Future of Incarceration Technology, on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 1 week, 6 days ago

Prison technology and telecom companies such as Securus and Global Tel*Link are already notorious for their ongoing efforts to extract every last penny and destroy any last shred of privacy afforded to […]
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