If you think online age verification mandates are the key to holding Big Tech companies accountable, you need to see what’s happening in Mississippi.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms
If you live in Mississippi, you may have noticed that you are no longer able to log into your Bluesky or Dreamwidth accounts from within the state....
Federal agencies are sharing data even when they’re not supposed to, EFF’s Cooper Quintin told KQED News. “Even if you personally are not concerned about ICE… it should be concerning to anybody. This is going to be used to further dragnet surveillance.”
How ICE Is Using Your Data — and What You Can Do About It | KQED
ICE’s reach may get even wider due to a new partnership with a spyware company. But there have always been tools at the immigration agency’s di...
“Age verification laws threaten individual privacy by requiring individuals to submit highly sensitive personal data, such as government-issued IDs or biometric scans, to access material online,” EFF’s Rin Alajaji told WIRED - and VPNs aren’t a solution.
WIRED
VPNs Can Bypass Age-Verification Laws. Are They An Effective Solution?
Age-verification laws are on the rise around the world, and VPNs promise to get around them. But do they actually work?
Just because CSS don't appear to be used to spy on protests in the US right now doesn't mean that is true everywhere. We are interested in getting Rayhunter data from every country to help us understand the global use of CSS and to refine our signatures.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Rayhunter: What We Have Found So Far
Rayhunter is a program that runs on a variety of mobile hotspots and watches for cell-site simulators—a tool police use to locate or identify peo...
Libraries are among freedom’s most important tools, and the internet has radically expanded access to knowledge in ways earlier generations could only have dreamed. Hear @Brewster Kahle tell the @npub1umd6...wfr7's story on EFF's “How to Fix the Internet.”
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Podcast Episode: Building and Preserving the Library of Everything
All this season, “How to Fix the Internet” has been focusing on the tools and technology of freedom – and one of the most important tools of ...
Mario Trujillo presents the EFF Award for Protecting Americans’ Data to Erie Meyer: “Erie Meyer has spent her career doing the real work of modernization and innovation inside government—by working to protect consumers and building a bench of deep technical and policy expertise. image
It’s unsurprising that Eugene police have been crediting all their successes to license-plate readers, EFF’s Sarah Hamid told Lookout Eugene-Springfield; police often do that when Flock contracts are the subject of public outrage. “That is play-for-play from the playbook.”
Lookout Eugene-Springfield
Voices grow louder in debate over license-plate reader technology
Three dozen speakers opposed to Flock license-plate readers spoke at a recent Eugene City Council meeting, while Eugene police have touted use of t...
The government's requirement that visa applicants provide their social media accounts has “a great chilling effect … inhibiting freedom of speech,” EFF’s Sophia Cope told American Community Media, affecting not only applicants but their families and friends too.
American Community Media
Immigrant Data-Sharing Threatens Privacy of All Americans
The federal expansion of immigrant surveillance is increasing political targeting, identity theft and data breach risks for all Americans.
"Listeners should have control of their own data, which includes exporting it for their own use," EFF’s Jacob Hoffman-Andrews told @Ars Technica. "An individual's musical history is of use not just to Spotify but also to the individual who created it."
Ars Technica
Spotify peeved after 10,000 users sold data to build AI tools
Spotify sent a warning to stop data sales, but developers say they never got it.
Mississippi’s age verification law poses an “existential threat” to smaller platforms like Bluesky and Dreamwidth, which cannot afford to implement expensive AV systems or risk hefty fines.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms
If you live in Mississippi, you may have noticed that you are no longer able to log into your Bluesky or Dreamwidth accounts from within the state....