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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
Want the latest news on your digital rights? Then you’ve come to the right place! Version 33, issue 7 of EFFector, our monthly-ish newsletter, is out now! Catch up on the latest EFF news, from how Apple is l […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
The Right to Repair movement got a boost this week, when Apple announced a new program, Self Service Repair, that will let people buy genuine Apple parts and tools to make some of their own repairs to limited […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
Judges cannot minimize the First Amendment rights of anonymous speakers who use an organization’s logo, especially when that use may be intended to send a message to the trademark owner, EFF told a federal a […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
Episodes Feature Innovators Seeking Creative Solutions to Build a Better Online WorldSan Francisco—Troubled when Twitter takes down posts of people or organizations you follow? Concerned about protecting y […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
It seems like everywhere we turn we see dystopian stories about technology’s impact on our lives and our futures—from tracking-based surveillance capitalism to street level government surveillance to the dom […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 101 of EFF’s How to Fix the Internet
If you get pulled over and a police officer asks for your phone, beware. Local police now have sophisticated tools that can download your location and browsing h […] -
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
In the U.S., we need better internet. We need oversight over Big Tech, ISPs, and other large companies. We need the federal agencies with the powers to advance competition, protect privacy, and empower consumers […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
Every year or so, a new Facebook scandal emerges. These blowups follow a fairly standard pattern, at least in the U.S. First, new information is revealed that the company misled users about an element of the […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
Police in Illinois Filmed Defendant’s Home Nonstop for 18 MonthsWashington, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today urged the Supreme Court today to review and reverse a lower court decision in Unit […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
Since August, EFF and others have been telling Apple to cancel its new child safety plans. Apple is now changing its tune about one component of its plans: the Messages app will no longer send notifications to […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
EFF invites everyone to participate this Saturday, Nov. 13, in this year’s (virtual) Aaron Swartz Day and International Hackathon—an annual event celebrating the life and continuing legacy of activist, p […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
It’s often impossible to find out who owns a United States patent.
Even people who get sued over patents often can’t figure out who is demanding money from them. That’s even more true when the lawsuit comes from […] -
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
Facebook needs to be reined in. Lawmakers and everyday users are mad, having heard former Facebook employee Frances Haugen explain how Facebook valued growth and engagement over everything else, even health and […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
Vendors of surveillance technology can make big money on the global market, frequently by enabling authoritarian governments to spy on journalists and activists. That’s why, for years, EFF has called for more a […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
EFF’s Certbot tool helps to automate TLS/SSL certificates for web servers—and we believe that should be a global right. Certbot is a free, open source software tool for automatically using Let’s Encrypt certi […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
The EU’s Digital Services Act is a chance to preserve what works and to fix what is broken. EFF and other civil society groups have advocated for new rules that protect fundamental rights online, while formulating […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
In the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, a location data broker called Veraset offered officials in Washington, DC full access to its proprietary database of “highly sensitive” device-level GPS data, col […]
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electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
This post is the second of two analyzing the risks of approving dangerous and disproportionate surveillance obligations in the Brazilian Fake News bill. You can read our first article here.
Following a series of […] -
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
This post is the first of two analyzing the risks of approving dangerous and disproportionate surveillance obligations in the Brazilian Fake News bill. You can read our second article here.
The revised text of […] -
electronicfrontierfoundation wrote a new post on the site americanpeacenik technology journal 2 years, 5 months ago
Led by a group of senators that spent much of 2019 trying to change U.S. patent law for the worse, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has agreed to study the “current state of patent jurisprudence.” The […]
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