Notices by Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social), page 45

The FCC’s draft rules are a great step toward net neutrality but create puzzling and serious loopholes. The FCC must clearly ban ISPs from creating fast lanes and refrain from blocking the states from passing more protective net neutrality laws as needed. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/fcc-must-clarify-its-rules-prevent-loopholes-will-swallow-net-neutrality-whole

Many of the internet’s ills are based on widespread corporate surveillance online. This pervasive system, ran by corporations and governments, stifles our speech and erodes our privacy. But together, we can dismantle it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/address-online-harms-we-must-first-do-privacy

You shouldn’t have to go to a second-rate online “reading room” just to read the laws we live by. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/congress-no-one-should-own-law

The US lacks a federal law forcing companies that create & use facial analysis software to delete the data processed by the technology. “We're kind of in the Wild West & we've got a bunch of corporate pinky promises,” EFF’s @Adam_D_Schwartz told Nextgov/FCW. https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2024/04/decoding-distinctions-biometrics/395862/

Until abortion access is fully legal, digital surveillance poses a significant threat. We’ve gotten better at answering questions about how to keep each other safe. Here’s what we’ve learned.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/two-years-post-roe-better-understanding-digital-threats #abortion #surveillance

“Even if it’s better than third-party cookies, the Privacy Sandbox is still tracking. It’s just done by the company that makes your browser instead of the company that runs the ads,” EFF’s @Thorin told the @WSJ. https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-cookies-replacement-not-enough-to-protect-uk-consumer-privacy-580d1b16

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Tell the U.S. Senate: RISAA does not reform mass surveillance — it greatly expands who can be surveilled and why. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-the-u-s-senate-stop-risaa-the-fisa-mass-surveillance-expansion

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-the-u-s-senate-stop-risaa-the-fisa-mass-surveillance-expansion

AG Merrick Garland’s pledge to narrowly interpret an amendment that vastly expands FISA Section 702 warrantless surveillance powers “isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on,” EFF’s Andrew Crocker told @theverge. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/18/24134196/senate-cloture-vote-fisa-section-702-surveillance

We need your help! Call your senators and tell them to vote NO on reauthorizing and expanding Section 702. https://eff.org/risaa

Tell the U.S. Senate: RISAA does not reform mass surveillance, it greatly expands who can be surveilled and why.

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-the-u-s-senate-stop-risaa-the-fisa-mass-surveillance-expansion

#section702 #surveillance

EFF’s @zoracon shared important tips with @CNN Underscored for securing your child’s tablet, including disabling ad-tracking settings, enabling 2FA, and avoiding third-party parental control apps that leak or sell your data. https://edition.cnn.com/cnn-underscored/electronics/best-tablets-for-kids

"Free speech has the power to democratize demanding accountability from countries and creating social change. And social media is providing a voice to more diverse people, elevating them and giving the public more control around narratives.”

Our latest Speaking Freely interview, featuring Lynn Hamadallah, is up now! Find it here: https://eff.org/speaking-freely

"I have a hard time believing that YouTube would be unable to keep business afloat without the revenue generated by behavioral-tracking advertisements,” EFF’s Daly Barnett told @theregister. “It’s a lazy and deliberately malicious move on their part."
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/16/youtube_ad_blocking/

Integrating AI into police tech “opens up law enforcement’s frame of surveillance in a way that we haven’t really previously had to deal with” but is now becoming a constant concern, EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @techreview. https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/16/1090846/ai-police-body-cams-cops-transparency/

Courts should interpret the 4th Amendment to mean the government can't buy data from data brokers if it would have needed a warrant to get it directly from a person or service provider, EFF’s @Adam_D_Schwartz told FedScoop. https://fedscoop.com/ice-pursuing-privacy-approvals-related-to-controversial-phone-location-data/

EFF’s Joe Mullin joins the Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons podcast to discuss why censorship bills like the Kids Online Safety Act will do more harm than good, and why comprehensive data privacy laws would be better for everyone. https://podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com/2024/04/15/protecting-kids-online/

Chula Vista’s use of police drones to respond to emergency calls “raises a number of really sort of tricky questions over the public's privacy and privacy of those who call 911 and request service,” EFF’s @aaronmackey told CBS 8 San Diego. https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/trial-court-decide-guidelines-releasing-chula-vista-police-drone-video/509-96f7033b-b534-4b20-8d27-cf27f4f13fb9

"I think with advertising we need a better deal ... We had one deal with Google in, let's say, 2010. If you go on Google now, it's an entirely different bargain," says antitrust expert Tim Wu. Hear more on the latest episode of "How to Fix the Internet." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/podcast-episode-antitrustpro-internet