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With the election nearing and fears of disinformation and conspiracy theories on the rise, we’re re-releasing our March 2023 “How to Fix the Internet” podcast episode with Alice Marwick, “So You Think You’re a Critical Thinker?” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/podcast-episode-rerelease-so-you-think-youre-critical-thinker

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If 23andMe tries to sell your genetic data along with its business, many of you have the right to say “no.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/sale-23andmes-data-would-be-bad-privacy-heres-what-customers-can-do

"The data broker industry is the wild west of unregulated surveillance...a vast, interconnected, opaque industry with hundreds of companies people have never heard of" making billions per year selling your personal data, EFF’s Lena Cohen told @theregister. https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/09/national_public_data_bankrupt/

“People should have an expectation of privacy and the police shouldn’t be able to tap into private cameras in order to surveil the public at large,” EFF’s Saira Hussain told Nashville’s WKRN News 2.
https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/nashville/mnpd-requests-access-surveillance-video-fusus/

Companies like Apple want "the reputation that they protect users' data and they will do so at the expense of their relationship with law enforcement,” but they also want to tap the multi-billion-dollar police tech market, EFF’s Matthew Guariglia told @forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2024/10/09/apple-sells-privacy-to-consumers-but-its-quietly-helping-police-use-iphones-for-surveillance/

“There’s a genuine distrust in this (AI) stuff” in consumer tech, “but other than that, it’s a design problem,” EFF’s @Thorin told @nytimes. “It’s just ugly and in the way.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/technology/personaltech/turn-off-ai-overviews-google-meta.html

23andMe’s potential sale should prod lawmakers to pass stronger genetic privacy laws. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/sale-23andmes-data-would-be-bad-privacy-heres-what-customers-can-do

The Salt Typhoon hack shows us, again: we must demand real privacy and security. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/salt-typhoon-hack-shows-theres-no-security-backdoor-thats-only-good-guys

Parents and minors—not states—should decide when and how young people use TikTok, EFF’s @aaronmackey told @Engadget after state attorneys general sued the platform.
https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/more-than-a-dozen-states-sue-tiktok-alleging-that-its-designed-to-addict-kids-151242893.html

“People watch TV in the privacy of their own homes & have a reasonable expectation that no one is watching them watch,” EFF’s Jacob Hoffman-Andrews told TechNewsWorld. “Nobody wants a snooping & snitching television, but lately, that’s all you can buy.”
https://www.technewsworld.com/story/streaming-tv-industry-snooping-on-viewers-at-grand-scale-report-179410.html

The idea that only authorized government agencies would ever use backdoor channels for getting user data was always risky and flawed. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/salt-typhoon-hack-shows-theres-no-security-backdoor-thats-only-good-guys

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“Your phone is a window to your soul,” EFF’s @Adam_D_Schwartz told @WashPost — so know your rights and use your judgment if police ask to search it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/10/08/can-police-search-your-phone/

South Korea has banned deepfake porn, but “a similar law in the United States would be a complete nonstarter under the First Amendment,” EFF’s @cmcsherr told GZERO Media. Current U.S. law should protect Americans from some harms.
https://www.gzeromedia.com/gzero-ai/south-korea-banned-deepfakes-is-that-a-realistic-solution-for-the-us

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The FBI has strict guidelines for collecting and indexing DNA in its database, EFF’s Saira Hussain told Washington's Cascadia Daily News. Rapid DNA results collected by local law enforcement agencies don’t meet those FBI standards, resulting in local “rogue databases.”
https://www.cascadiadaily.com/2024/oct/07/new-rapid-dna-machine-could-speed-up-crime-investigations-at-whatcom-sheriffs-office/

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