Notices by Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social), page 17

This isn’t about national security or innovation; it’s about a rent-seeker monopolizing access to a public resource.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/nextnavs-callous-band-grab-privatize-900-mhz #FCC

The transparency Apple promises in its Private Cloud Compute AI - so security researchers can verify its functionality and identify any issues - is “a good thing” but it’ll take time to determine how it’s working, EFF’s @Thorin told @USATODAY. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2024/09/13/apple-intelligence-ai-user-privacy/75149277007/

Part of the CFC community? Now's the time to pledge your support for EFF's lawyers, technologists, and activists in the fight for privacy and free expression online! https://eff.org/cfc

"Thank you EFF. I am truly honored to receive an award from an organization that pioneered the defense of human rights in the digital environment. This journey has never been easy, but one thing I am sure is that I have never felt alone."

"It goes without saying that this is not an individual achievement. For every public win there has been as many failures and a good number of silent successes....We almost always feel like we are swimming upstream. This recognition strengthens the quiet part that is less known.

Congratulations to 2024 EFF Awards Winner, Carolina Botero !

In over a decade as director of the Karisma Foundation, she transformed the organization into an outspoken voice fostering freedom of expression, privacy, access to knowledge, justice, and self-determination in our digital world.

“In 11 months, Connecting Humanity has managed to send four-hundred thousand donated eSIMs from all around the world to Gaza, which is equivalent to 10 million US dollars. And we are still connecting people, and we are still asking for eSim donations every day.”

Connecting Humanity’s founder, Mirna El Helbawi: “Connecting Humanity started from the people to the people, because asking today's leaders and governments for our right for a free and untouchable internet access is like asking your kidnapper to give you their phone so you can call the police.”

Congratulations to our 2024 EFF Awards Winner, Connecting Humanity!

Connecting Humanity collects and distributes embedded SIMs (eSIMs), a software version of the physical chip used to connect a phone to cellular networks and the internet. Connecting Humanity has collected hundreds of thousands of eSims from around the world and distributed them to people in Gaza, a crucial lifeline during Israel’s war on Hamas.

“I don’t have enough time to name all of the people that we’ve spoken to at the EFF, but you do such incredible work, and thank you so much for the work that you do. I know that Sam, Emanuel, and Joseph feel the same. Thank you so much.”

“We’re thankful to be one of a handful of journalist-owned, independent companies that have shown there is another way to do this, that are succeeding and doing important fun work for other people, and we’re really thankful that the EFF believes this work is important.”

Co-founder of 404 Media, Jason Koebler: “We believe that there is a huge demand for journalism written by humans, for other humans, and that real people do not want to read AI generated news stories that are written for search engine optimization algorithms and social media algorithms, and then jammed down our throats.”

Congratulations to our first 2024 EFF Awards Winner, @404mediaco !

As the media landscape in general and tech media in particular keeps shrinking, 404 Media, launched in August 2023, has forged ahead with incisive investigative reports, deep-dive features, blogs, and scoops.

EFF’s Executive Director, Cindy Cohn: “Here are just a few victories we celebrated this year:
* Certbot Is Now on 4M Servers, Maintaining Over 31M Websites 
* The FCC Closed Loopholes and Restored Net Neutrality 
* EFF Helped Resist an Unlawful Warrant and Gag Order Issued to Indybay, an Independent News Outlet 
* And Police Drone Footage is Not Categorically Exempt from California’s Public Records Law (that means they can’t abuse public records laws to shield drone footage from scrutiny.)"

It’s time for the EFF Awards! If you’d like to join us via livestream, you can do so on the Twitch chat at eff.org/livestream. If for any reason you find captions helpful, live captioning will be available at eff.org/livecaptions.

It’s time for the EFF Awards! If you’d like to join us via livestream, you can do so on the Twitch chat at eff.org/livestream. If for any reason you find captions helpful, live captioning will be available at eff.org/livecaptions.

TONIGHT at 7:30 PM PT we're celebrating leaders in the digital rights movement at EFF Awards Ceremony! You can join us, along with special guest Elizabeth Minkel, from home here: https://livestream.eff.org

he digital rights movement at EFF Awards Ceremony! You can join us, along with special guest Elizabeth Minkel, from home here: https://livestream.eff.org

Buffalo City Council must ensure there are clear policies and audit mechanisms around when and why police can use the various surveillance tools that will be part of the city’s real-time crime center, EFF’s Beryl Lipton told WGRZ NBC2.
https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/buffalo-police-looking-to-increase-tasers-boost-surveillance-capability/71-58fc6e67-e208-4d34-aab8-4455b9a33b60

Sharing abortion data without patients’ consent would be a serious privacy violation that could lead to unintended consequences including harassment, discrimination, or even legal action, EFF’s @htsuka warned @CALMatters.
https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/09/project2025-trump-california-abortion-surveillance/