Notices by Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social), page 20

Litigants must not be allowed to lock out the public. EFF will continue to take legal action to defend our system of open courts. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/eff-presses-federal-circuit-make-patent-case-filings-public

If an app or web service offers two-factor authentication, you should be using it. Here's how it works and what sorts of pitfalls to watch out for. https://ssd.eff.org/module/how-enable-two-factor-authentication

France’s arrest of Telegram’s CEO may relate to refusal to moderate or intercept end-to-end encrypted messages, or it may relate to hosting publicly accessible content. Both scenarios could be dangerous for users in the future. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/french-detention-why-were-watching-telegram-situation-closely

Equating surveillance with safety considers only a fraction of what “safety” for everyone looks like. You cannot protect people from harm if part of what you offer them is a different kind of harm, writes EFF's Matthew Guariglia for Slate. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/08/police-surveillance-wont-make-us-safer-broken-windows-on-steroids.html

Legislatures now have a clear road map as to how to protect consumers’ privacy—without trampling our first amendment rights. They should use it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/court-california-try-privacy-law-not-online-censorship

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Fingerprinting is done extensively by tracking companies, who use this information to target you with ads or sell that information to data brokers. Fighting against it can get tricky. https://ssd.eff.org/module/what-fingerprinting

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Meta and Snap should not be able to freely disclose the content of your communications to anyone. This bad opinion in California needs to be reversed. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/california-supreme-court-should-help-protect-your-stored-communications

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Surveillance technology will neither make people safer from the systematic harms they face, including police violence, nor patch up their rocky relationship with the police who are sworn to protect and serve them. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/08/police-surveillance-wont-make-us-safer-broken-windows-on-steroids.html

The UK’s Prime Minister should not only avoid expanding the use of face recognition technology at an already precarious time, but he should also ban government use of the technology altogether. https://bylinetimes.com/2024/08/16/uk-riots-police-facial-recognition-technology/

The arrest of Telegram’s CEO, Pavel Durov, marks an enormous escalation by a state’s authorities. We are monitoring the situation closely and will continue to do so. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/french-detention-why-were-watching-telegram-situation-closely

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Everyone interested in digital rights is welcome to join! You can even get discounted tickets for EFF members and students. Register today to celebrate this year's honorees, meet digital freedom leaders, and enjoy a variety of drinks and appetizers! www.eff.org/effawards

“If you have fewer instances in which 230 applies, then platforms will be exposed to more liability, & that ultimately harms the Internet user” as platforms conduct “preemptive censorship” to protect their bottom lines, EFF’s Sophia Cope told @motherjonesmag. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/08/federal-court-tiktok-230-liable-blackout-challenge-nylah-anderson-death/

Pavel Durov can’t be held legally responsible for what happens in Telegram users’ E2EE direct chats, EFF’s @evacide told DW News. And arresting a CEO for content moderation practices could threaten millions of users’ free speech and privacy rights. https://youtu.be/NlHGfQyL3BM?feature=shared

Axon’s Draft One—an AI tool for drafting police reports—seems like a time-saver, but it’s going into widespread use without adequate testing and could have dire consequences if the chatbot errs in serious cases, EFF’s Matthew Guariglia told @arstechnica. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/chatbots-offer-cops-the-ultimate-out-to-spin-police-reports-expert-says/

By enacting comprehensive data privacy laws, “we take a bite out of a whole host of problems.” EFF’s Cindy Cohn discusses privacy, competition, decentralization, AI and more with Mark Oppenheim on The Nonprofit Report. https://moppenheim.org/digital-privacy-with-electronic-frontier-foundation-nonprofit-report/

Automated license plate readers already can create a massive surveillance dragnet of people’s cars and driving patterns, EFF’s Dave Maass told @theintercept, but face recognition technology adds “a whole new dimension to the privacy invasion.”
https://theintercept.com/2024/08/27/face-recognition-border-surveillance-dhs/

The #UNCybercrimeTreaty received unanimous support despite jeopardizing human rights by expanding government surveillance without adequate safeguards, EFF’s Katitza Rodriguez wrote for Just Security. States must not adopt it without reforms to reduce its harms.
https://www.justsecurity.org/98738/cybercrime-convention-human-rights/