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- Trump's Use of Truth Social's Pay-To-See-Posts-First Scheme Violates Americans' 1st Amendment Equal Access Rights | Electronic Frontier Foundation
I'm a long-time supporter of the EFF and I'm glad to see them here. This scheme to generate revenue for Truth Social off of access should be illegal. I continue to believe we need…
- Yikes, Encryption’s Y2K Moment is Coming Years Early | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- EFF is Leaving X | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda | Electronic Frontier Foundation
The EFF has long pursued projects that detect surveillance, increase encryption, etc. I’m hoping they will work on some advanced work to detect manipulated images and videos like…
- Report: ICE Using Palantir Tool That Feeds On Medicaid Data | Electronic Frontier Foundation
There are many reasons that the government is now allowed by law to combine certain databases together. These laws need to be enforced.
- EFF Statement on ICE and CBP Violence | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Happy to be a long-time supporter of the EFF. The EFF is also the organization the Weekly Thing Community Supporter program is raising funds for this year. 👏
- ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree | Electronic Frontier Foundation
This is an incredible amount of surveillance infrastructure and capability. A 2022 report by Georgetown Law's Center for Privacy and Technology found the following: ICE had…
- Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Hopefully this gets nowhere. The ability to manage our privacy and protect our communications should be fundamental.
- It's EFF's 35th Anniversary (And We're Just Getting Started) | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- California’s A.B. 412: A Bill That Could Crush Startups and Cement A Big Tech AI Monopoly | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Another case of regulation that many would argue is great but could then only help large, established companies continue to dominate. Privacy is filled with this stuff.
- EFF to Ninth Circuit: Young People Have a First Amendment Right to Use Social Media (and All of Its Features) | Electronic Frontier Foundation
This is filled with a lot of legalize but I think I may disagree with the EFF on this one. For sure young people should have the right to publish and "create" online. But limiting…
- Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Meta changed all their moderation policies in profound ways. A lot of folks are upset about this. You should get off of it if you are. There is a world without Facebook and…
- EFF Statement on Meta's Announcement of Revisions to Its Content Moderation Processes | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- EFF’s 2023 Annual Report Highlights a Year of Victories: 2024 in Review | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Australia Banning Kids from Social Media Does More Harm Than Good | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- What You Should Know When Joining Bluesky | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- EFF to Third Circuit: TikTok Has Section 230 Immunity for Video Recommendations | Electronic Frontier Foundation
I've been a long time supporter of the EFF and this may be an area where I diverge with their view. In this case, the Third Circuit panel erroneously held that since TikTok enjoys…
- FTC Report Confirms: Commercial Surveillance is Out of Control | Electronic Frontier Foundation
This should not surprise anyone but I suspect it will. We need privacy legislation in the US.
- Victory! Supreme Court Rules Platforms Have First Amendment Right to Decide What Speech to Carry, Free of State Mandates | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- How to Figure Out What Your Car Knows About You (and Opt Out of Sharing When You Can) | Electronic Frontier Foundation
First we had Smart TV manufacturers surveilling us and selling data. Now car companies are collecting our data and selling that too? We need privacy regulations in this country.…
- Privacy First and Competition | Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF on all the many ways that privacy legislation could help us. Privacy isn't dead . Far from it. For a quarter of a century, would-be tech monopolists have been insisting that…
- Defending Access to the Decentralized Web | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Interesting case where IPFS gateways, which operate as caching endpoints, are being targeted for content that they host. This at the same time that Section 230 is used by social…
- Privacy Isn't Dead. Far From It. | Electronic Frontier Foundation
A privacy recap from the EFF, focusing on the things to be optimistic about. I care deeply about privacy online and often people tell me they have given up on privacy online. That…
- The House Intelligence Committee's Surveillance 'Reform' Bill is a Farce | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- How To Turn Off Google’s “Privacy Sandbox” Ad Tracking—and Why You Should | Electronic Frontier Foundation
If you care about privacy you are probably not using Chrome, but Google has roled out their new form of surveillance that is buried deep in the heart of Chrome. EFF has a guide so…
- Celebrating Ten Years of Encrypting the Web with Let’s Encrypt | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- To Save the News, We Must Shatter Ad-Tech | Electronic Frontier Foundation
The "original sin" of the Internet is that it was built nearly exclusively on advertising revenue. In addition to creating a set of incentives that do not benefit people, it…
- How to Enable Advanced Data Protection on iOS, and Why You Should | Electronic Frontier Foundation
I’m glad to see the EFF call out this end-to-end encryption capability that Apple has added for their services. I’ve got this enabled and it just feels great to have it in place.…
- EFF Now Has Tor Onions | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Good to see EFF making sure it’s services are accessible everywhere! 🧅
- Smart Locks Endanger Tenants’ Privacy and Should Be Regulated | Electronic Frontier Foundation
I haven't adopted that much "smart home" infrastructure, in part because of the privacy concerns. I've thought several times that having a smart lock at our cabin would be great,…
- Leaving Twitter's Walled Garden | Electronic Frontier Foundation
There are a lot of posts lately guiding people through onboarding with Mastadon. I’m mostly sharing this one as I think it is well done, and I’m a longtime supporter of the EFF.…
- Honoring Peter Eckersley, Who Made the Internet a Safer Place for Everyone | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Even if you have never heard of Eckersley, you have benefited greatly from the work that he led with many others at the EFF and Let's Encrypt. I believe that Let's Encrypt should…
- How Ad Tech Became Cop Spy Tech
- Fog Revealed: A Guided Tour of How Cops Can Browse Your Location Data
- What is Fog Data Science? Why is the Surveillance Company so Dangerous?
- How Law Enforcement Around the Country Buys Cell Phone Location Data Wholesale
- Inside Fog Data Science, the Secretive Company Selling Mass Surveillance to Local Police
- Fog Data Science Puts our Fourth Amendment Rights up for Sale
- Ban Online Behavioral Advertising
I believe this would make for a much better Internet for all of us. I think it would even help the companies in the end, since their customers could start to trust their motives.
- Telegram Harm Reduction for Users in Russia and Ukraine | Electronic Frontier Foundation
It is great to see the EFF sharing analysis on how you should use Telegram, a popular communication tool.
- Am I FLoCed? A New Site to Test Google's Invasive Experiment | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Remember how Google isn't doing 3rd party cookies anymore? That is because they have something even better. Add this to the long list of reasons I don't use Chrome.
- Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea | Electronic Frontier Foundation
While Google's PR team is busy making the most of their decision to not track you on websites and advertise based on that, they are introducing new technologies that can do the…
- Section 230 is Good, Actually | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Very good in depth look at Section 230 and what it really means. There have been some recent calls to repeal Section 230 to hold big platforms more accountable for things like…
- Facebook’s Election-Week War on Accountability is Wrong, Wrong, Wrong | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Facebook this week took legal action to try and limit access by researches to see the ads that politicians are targeting users with. But rather than embrace the Ad Observatory as…
- The Senate’s New Anti-Encryption Bill Is Even Worse Than EARN IT, and That’s Saying Something — Deeplinks
So some particularly sneaky senators have decided that the thing that they need to focus on in the midst of a global pandemic, record unemployment, and racial injustice is, wait…
- Harden Your Zoom Settings to Protect Your Privacy and Avoid Trolls | Electronic Frontier Foundation
A lot of people are suddenly being asked to be experts using Zoom. This article, from a very trusted source, has a great set of recommendations.
- Ninth Circuit: Private Social Media Platforms Are Not Bound by the First Amendment | Electronic Frontier Foundation
This is a good ruling, and highlights something I’m pretty vocal about, you have no right to free speech on any online service operated by a company. I think there is also a flip…
- Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Ring doesn't respect your privacy and even though you've paid for the service surveils you and shares your information with a variety of companies? An investigation by EFF of the…
- Encrypted DNS could help close the biggest privacy gap on the Internet. Why are some groups fighting against it? —Deeplinks
I've done a lot to protect my privacy using tools on my web browsers, but DNS is very hard to protect. Think of DNS like the phone book for the internet, and right now every time…
- Apple's New WebKit Policy Takes a Hard Line for User Privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Endorsement of WebKits new Tracking Policy from the very important EFF.
- In WSJ Op-Ed, Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Down to Users and Misses the Point | Electronic Frontier Foundation
I’m a proud supporter of the EFF. Zuckerberg ends his op-ed with a call for government regulation codifying the principles of "transparency, choice, and control." But in reality,…
- Can the Government Block Me on Twitter?: 2018 Year in Review | Electronic Frontier Foundation
I continue to find this topic interesting, and I wish it would be taken a level higher. Why is it okay for government to use a service like Facebook to share information with…
- New Documents Show That Facebook Has Never Deserved Your Trust | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Everything you ever thought Facebook might do with your data that you don't want them to, they are doing. The end of this article hits it right: No matter how Zuckerberg slices…
- The End of Trust (McSweeney's 54) | Electronic Frontier Foundation
This looks like a very cool book. Wish I could have got a copy of it ordered before they ran out.
- Google Chrome’s Users Take a Back Seat to Its Bottom Line | Electronic Frontier Foundation
This article is the biggest part of why I won’t use Chrome. Google is the biggest browser company in the world. It’s also the biggest search engine, mobile operating system, video…
- Privacy Badger Now Fights More Sneaky Google Tracking | Electronic Frontier Foundation
"Don't be evil." Wait, there is an HTML attribute just to spy on people now? What is this ping !
- We’re in the Uncanny Valley of Targeted Advertising | Electronic Frontier Foundation
The EFF calls out Facebooks use of AI in it’s targeting systems. It’s notable that everything written here could be applied to Google as well. The concern that you’re being…
- Let's Encrypt Hits 50 Million Active Certificates and Counting | Electronic Frontier Foundation
The web has * 50 million more secure HTTPS endpoints now in part thanks to Let's Encrypt. I continue to believe Let's Encrypt is one of the best things to happen online in the…
- A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace | Electronic Frontier Foundation
I’m shocked that I had never read this article. Sadly John Perry Barlow , the founder of the EFF and the author of this declaration recently passed away. Cory Doctorow has a very…
- California Legislature to Hear EFF’s License Plate Cover Bill | Electronic Frontier Foundation
What? Across the country, private companies are deploying vehicles mounted with automated license plate readers (ALPRs) to drive up and down streets to document the travel…
- Apple does right by users and advertisers are displeased —EFF Updates
Happy to see the EFF express their opinion on this. Also gives me even more confidence that this approach has been vetted by more people. Intelligent Tracking Prevention looks…
- An open letter to the W3C Director, CEO, team and membership | Electronic Frontier Foundation
I linked to this W3C DRM decision and now we see the EFF reaction to endorse "Encrypted Media Extensions", to make DRM possible, on the web. You have to search long and hard to…
- List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Turns out your printer is making it possible to track you as well? Where is the ethics in tech!
- How to Opt Out of Twitter's New Privacy Settings — EFF Updates
Contrary to the inviting “Sounds good” button to accept the new policy and get to tweeting, the changes Twitter has made around user tracking and data personalization do not sound…
- Deep Dive: EFF's new wordlists for random passphrases
Randomly-generated passphrases offer a major security upgrade over user-chosen passwords. Estimating the difficulty of guessing or cracking a human-chosen password is very…
- When You Work in the Open, Everyone Can Be a Collaborator
Open access is the practice of making research available online, for free, ideally under licenses that permit widespread dissemination. This year’s theme for Open Access Week is…
- Privacy Badger | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- A Way Forward: Bruce Schneier’s Data and Goliath Explains Where Our Privacy is Now, and How We Fix It
- Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Today EFF is pleased to announce Let’s Encrypt, a new certificate authority (CA) initiative that we have put together with Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, IdenTrust, and researchers at…
- Secure Messaging Scorecard | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Lawrence Lessig Settles Fair Use Lawsuit Over Phoenix Music Snippets
Prof. Lawrence Lessig has settled his lawsuit against an Australian record label over the use of clips of a popular song by the band Phoenix in a lecture that was later posted…
- The Crypto Wars: Governments Working to Undermine Encryption | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- EFF's Reading List: Books of 2013
At the end of each year, EFF puts together a list of some of the interesting and noteworthy books that have been published in the past 12 months or so. We don't endorse all of…
- How Dozens of Companies Know You're Reading About Those NSA Leaks - Electronic Frontier Foundation
- EFF and Facebook Stand Up for User Privacy and Control in California Case
EFF and Facebook? Made me do a double-take. EFF filed an amicus brief (PDF) in support of Facebook in California state appellate court yesterday, urging the court to protect the…
- Do Not Track: Are Weak Protections Worse Than None At All? - Electronic Frontier Foundation
This was obvious from the outset. DNT was the minimal necessary for an overly invasive industry to say they are complying with privacy requirements while knowing that it would…
- The Disconcerting Details: How Facebook Teams Up With Data Brokers to Show You Targeted Ads - Electronic Frontier Foundation
- How To Opt Out of Receiving Facebook Ads Based on Your Real-Life Shopping Activity
Facebook has announced that its teaming up with four of the worlds largest corporate data brokers to enhance the ad experience for users. Datalogix, Epsilon, Acxiom, and BlueKai…
- Instagram's New Terms of Service to Sell Your Photos
What a mess. Glad I bailed on Instagram after about 100 photos. Facebook subsidiary Instagram recently revised their terms of service, adding a few controversial new terms that…
- Why We Have An Open Wireless Movement
Last year, we wrote a post titled "Why We Need An Open Wireless Movement." Today,EFF is proud to announce the launch of the Open Wireless Movementlocated at openwireless.orga…
- With New Privacy Policy, Twitter Commits to Respecting Do Not Track
I applaud Twitter for supporting DNT in a real way (not just window dressing). Under a new policy announced today, Twitter will be suggesting accounts for Twitter users to follow…
- Cybersecurity Bill FAQ: The Disturbing Privacy Dangers in CISPA and How To Stop It
This week, EFFalong with a host of other civil liberties groupsare protesting the dangerous new cybersecurity bill known as CISPA that will be voted on in the House on April 23.…
- International Reactions to Google’s New Privacy Policy | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Legal Censorship: PayPal Makes a Habit of Deciding What Users Can Read | Electronic Frontier Foundation
PayPal has instituted a new policy aimed at censoring what digital denizens can and can’t read, and they’re doing it in a way that leaves us with little recourse to challenge…
- EFF Calls on Websites to Implement HTTPS As Part of Data Privacy Day
January 28th is Data Privacy Day, also known as International Privacy Day. To celebrate, EFF is calling on users to protect online privacy by in three ways: download HTTPS…
- EFF's Reading List from 2011 | Electronic Frontier Foundation
We’ve compiled a list of notable books from the past year that stuck out to us. Even if we don’t necessarily endorse the arguments being made in them, we’ve included them for…
- Privacy Loses in Twitter/Wikileaks Records Battle
Ruling Allows U.S. Government Warrantless Access to Users' Data San Francisco - A district court judge in Virginia ruled against online privacy today, allowing U.S federal…
- Facebooks Hotel California: Cross-Site Tracking and the Potential Impact on Digital Privacy Legislation
- Listen to EFF's Courtroom Arguments Against Warrantless Wiretapping
Update:The court has just released video of the arguments: Jewel and Hepting. Yesterday, EFF lawyers urged the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle to allow our two…
- Randi Zuckerberg Runs in the Wrong Direction on Pseudonymity Online
- Why We Need An Open Wireless Movement
If you sometimes find yourself needing an open wireless network in order to check your email from a car, a street corner, or a park, you may have noticed that they're getting…
- Reader Privacy Bill Passed Through California Senate Judiciary Committee
Good!
- What is Traitorware?
Your digital camera may embed metadata into photographs with the camera's serial number or your location. Your printer may be incorporating a secret code on every page it prints…
- What does the "Track" in "Do Not Track" mean?
- MasterCard’s Support for COICA Threatens A Free And Open Internet
- House Subcommittee Revives Mandatory Data Retention Debate...With a Surprise Attack on EFF
This morning, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security held a hearing on mandatory Internet data retention, once again reviving the debate over…
- Mozilla Leads the Way on Do Not Track
- Social Media and Law Enforcement: Who Gets What Data and When? | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- The Best of Cablegate: Instances Where Public Discourse Benefited from the Leaks
Regardless of the heated debate over the propriety of Wikileaks’ actions, some of the cables have contributed significantly to public and political conversations all around the…
- New EFF Member Cards
I want my member card!
- Commerce Department's Online Privacy Report a Positive Step, But Self-Regulation Isn't Enough
Online privacy continues to be a hot topic in Washington, D.C. A few weeks ago, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a staff report calling for greater protection of online…
- Knowledge is Power: Facebook's Exceptional Approach to Vulnerability Disclosure | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Lawmakers and Legal Experts Call For Restraint in Wikileaks Hearing | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Appeals Court Holds That Email Privacy Protected by Fourth Amendment
Good news!
- Breaking News on EFF Victory: Appeals Court Holds that Email Privacy Protected by Fourth Amendment | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Join EFF in Standing up Against Internet Censorship
- 2010: E-Book Buyer's Guide to E-Book Privacy
Good overview of the state of privacy on eReading platforms.
- U.S. Government Seizes 82 Websites: A Glimpse at the Draconian Future of Copyright Enforcement?
- EFF Discusses the Future of Internet Privacy at UN Internet Governance Forum
EFF recently participated in the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Vilnius, Lithuania, advocating for the respect of citizens' fundamental rights online. The IGF is an…
- A Review of Verizon and Google's Net Neutrality Proposal
On Monday, Google and Verizon proposed a new legislative framework for net neutrality. Reaction to the proposal has been swift and, for the most part, highly critical. While we…
- The Wall Street Journal Asks: What Do Online Advertisers Know About You?
- Opt-Out Required to Prevent Your Yahoo Mail Contacts From Being Used for Social Network