Notices by Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social), page 41

EFF’s @evacide will be at the Computer History Museum tonight for a live/livestreamed “Secrets in Your Data” clips screening and panel discussion. Register now for this free event: https://computerhistory.org/events/nova-secrets-in-your-data/

You share more personal data online than you realize, risking your privacy — and perhaps, your safety. EFF’s Hayley Tsukayama, @evacide, and @pluralistic join PBS'
NOVA for “Secrets in Your Data,” a look at how to thrive online without compromising personal privacy. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/secrets-in-your-data/

The biggest investment in a public park should be for the community and childhood development, not an AI-powered border surveillance tower.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/coalition-calexico-think-twice-about-reapproving-border-surveillance-tower-next

Surveillance technology comes at a huge cost to both migrants crossing into the U.S. from Mexico and the communities on the border where surveillance is most concentrated, EFF’s Dave Maass and other privacy advocates told inewsource.
https://inewsource.org/2024/05/15/in-california-border-town-ai-raises-fresh-questions-over-decades-old-surveillance-tower/

“Enacting this legislation has undermined the U.S.’s longstanding championing of the free flow of information as a fundamental democratic principle,” EFF’s @BrendanGilligan told PCWorld. Instead, we need comprehensive data privacy legislation.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2317334/could-a-vpn-circumvent-the-tiktok-ban.html

"The real meaning of democracy cannot happen without freedom of speech."

Our latest Speaking Freely interview is here! This time, featuring IFEX’s Mohamed El Gohary: https://www.eff.org/pages/speaking-freely-mohamed-el-gohary

Customs & Border Protection wants Calexico to renew the lease for a surveillance tower overlooking a public park. Here’s why city leaders should think twice before approving it.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/coalition-calexico-think-twice-about-reapproving-border-surveillance-tower-next

Tell Congress: KOSA will censor the internet but won't help kids.
https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-kosa-will-censor-the-internet-but-won-t-help-kids

We must recognize and fight legislation like KOSA that’s pushing us to cede our power, privacy, and control over our health care and free expression, EFF’s @ericabp writes in TheAdvocate. https://www.advocate.com/voices/erica-portnoy-upholding-privacy

What’s a "tactile internet” and how does it help blind and low-vision users? We talk with @ChanceyFleet about the technology in the latest episode of “How to Fix the Internet.”
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/podcast-episode-building-tactile-internet

"If you bought a game, if you made a game, if you love a game, technology shouldn't get in the way of that game's ongoing existence,” EFF’s @pluralistic told @IGN — tech should preserve games for those who love them and for posterity.
https://www.ign.com/articles/how-stop-killing-games-ups-the-ante-in-the-fight-for-video-game-preservation

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“I haven’t heard of a lot of instances where a car was stolen outright (by hacking its key fob), but it’s not out of the question,” EFF’s @legind told @Gizmodo. “It really just depends on the model of car and how hackable it is.” https://gizmodo.com/why-your-cars-key-fob-is-so-hackable-1851455426

Inclusion in tech isn’t a destination — it’s a constant work in progress, non-visual tech education and design advocate @ChanceyFleet tells Cindy Cohn and @jgkelley on the new episode of EFF’s “How to Fix the Internet.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/podcast-episode-building-tactile-internet

Using AI to turn body-camera videos into police reports is worrisome given that some AI have been shown to "hallucinate" facts, or summarize events inaccurately, EFF’s Matthew Guariglia told Phoenix’s 12News. https://www.12news.com/article/tech/artificial-intelligence-police-reports/75-bab7ec96-5521-40fd-a716-6f4ea908f815

"It’s good that YouTube is being transparent to users with respect to how and why it’s restricting the video, but it’s important that companies don’t create too many barriers to restricting newsworthy content," EFF’s @jilliancyork told The New Arab. https://www.newarab.com/news/macklemore-pro-palestine-song-faces-youtube-shadow-ban

Non-visual tech education and design advocate @ChanceyFleet explains why AI-powered visual description apps will always need human auditing, on the new episode of EFF’s “How to Fix the Internet.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/podcast-episode-building-tactile-internet

In coalition with 19 other organizations, we told Meta to #StopSilencingPalestine. Read the company’s response and our statement here: https://stopsilencingpalestine.com/our-letter-and-meta-s-response/ 

Police must be transparent about how they use tools to pry data from our cell phones so that the public can decide whether it’s appropriate, EFF’s @legind told Louisville Public Media. https://www.lpm.org/investigate/2024-05-08/louisville-police-say-little-about-powerful-cell-phone-hacking-tool

Creating the best, most useful non-visual internet technology requires including blind and low-vision people in every step of development and deployment, @ChanceyFleet tells Cindy Cohn and @jgkelley on the new episode of EFF’s “How to Fix the Internet.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/podcast-episode-building-tactile-internet