“Your driver's license contains a ton of somewhat immutable information about you” like your name, address, DOB, and face, EFF’s Lisa Femia told The Tennessean. It's not like a credit card number that can be replaced if it's leaked.
Age verification laws: protecting kids or restricting speech?
“GeoSpy has proven to not be very accurate in my experience and this tool could lead to false accusations and further harassment of innocent people,” EFF’s @npub1z2zl...5t0s warned @npub1psar...j5uh. “It’s also a powerful tool for stalking or other misuse by police.”
404 Media
LAPD Eyes ‘GeoSpy’, an AI Tool That Can Geolocate Photos in Seconds
Emails obtained by 404 Media show the LAPD was interested in GeoSpy, an AI tool that can quickly figure out where a photo was taken.
While police departments say the drones-as-first-responders technology will be used to reduce crime, it could be expanded to other situations such as policing homeless residents and surveilling communities, EFF’s Beryl Lipton told the Orange County Register.
In Huntington Beach, drones will soon be the first-response for some 911 calls – Orange County Register
Police say the unmanned aerial vehicles will slash response times, as they typically respond within two minutes.
Cell-site simulators (CSS, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers) are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower. Our tool, Rayhunter, can help you find them.
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Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying
Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of techni...
Everything you do online is tracked, saved, and shared for what feels like a lifetime. But there are some steps you can take to minimize what data is out there.
How to: Manage Your Digital Footprint
Search for your name in any search engine and you’ll likely encounter dozens of results, some of which might include personal information like ad...
“This is probably the worst thing in my view that has ever happened to our rights online,” EFF’s @npub1f03m...sn7d tells David Ruiz on Malwarebytes’ Lock and Code podcast, discussing the security and privacy risks of online age verification.
Malwarebytes
“The worst thing” for online rights: An age-restricted grey web (Lock and Code S06E16)
This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we speak with EFF Activism Director Jason Kelley about online age verification and the "grey web."
Using genAI instead of paying creatives? Beware: "It's pretty clear that if you create something that's substantially similar to a copyrighted work that an infringement has occurred, unless it's for a fair use purpose," EFF’s @npub1y6tq...20dd told The Register.
GenAI is a lawsuit waiting to happen to your business
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Privacy Badger
The UK’s Online Safety Act is being sold as a way to protect children. But instead, UK politicians are pushing sweeping censorship and forcing platforms to implement invasive age checks. This is not safety–it's surveillance.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say So
The UK is having a moment. In late July, new rules took effect that require all online services available in the UK to assess whether they host con...
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