Notices by Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social), page 48

Have you set up a username on Signal yet? Now’s as good a time as any. https://ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-use-signal#set-or-change-your-username

The intelligence community and the White House are playing “finders keepers” with our digital communications. It’s time for Congress to reform Section 702. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/white-house-wrong-section-702-needs-drastic-change #section702

See how EFF turns digital rights issues into stunning artwork at our semi-secret Members' Speakeasy on April 18 in San Francisco, CA! Current Bay Area members, check your email for an invite or send us a note at events@eff.org for an invitation. eff.org/speakeasy

Here's where #KOSA is likely to harm young people, in their own words. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/thousands-young-people-told-us-why-kids-online-safety-act-will-be-harmful-minors

Anti-scraping claims can be used to target researchers and critics. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/federal-court-dimisses-xs-anti-speech-lawsuit-against-watchdog

"infrastructure rarely draws direct attention [...] We aren’t trying to make this infrastructure beautiful, but we are trying to present it in a way that people will look at it more closely." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/infrastructures-control-qa-geographers-behind-university-arizonas-border

"The fact that art using the body is so suppressed online means that there’s a whole set of artists who just aren’t being seen" https://www.eff.org/pages/speaking-freely-emma-shapiro

You have the right to publish research critical of X. On X. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/federal-court-dimisses-xs-anti-speech-lawsuit-against-watchdog

“It’s I think impossible for one person to really have a concept of even how much their own data is spread around the world,” EFF’s @Thorin told @NatGeo. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/location-tracking-tech-data

EFF’s Tech Trivia Night is a great opportunity to connect with peers in the tech community, and to celebrate the movement for civil liberties and human rights online. Join us May 9th in San Francisco! #EFFTechTrivia https://www.eff.org/tt24m

Risk of socially engineered backdoors in critical software seems like an indictment of open-source projects, but it could happen anywhere, EFF’s Molly told @theintercept - in fact, this one was found only due to the project’s open nature.
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/03/linux-hack-xz-utils-backdoor/

Pro-surveillance forces are organizing and the White House is leading the charge. It’s time to make sure we get major reforms of Section 702. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/white-house-wrong-section-702-needs-drastic-change

“This is the clearest picture that we’ve gotten of how cell-site simulators are operated, installed, and sold to police in years,” EFF’s @cooperq told @HorizonMass. “There absolutely needs to be case law requiring a warrant for a simulator.”
https://horizonmass.news/2024/04/03/feature-follow-up-surreptitious-simulation/

Help protect security, privacy, and free expression for people all across the web for just a few bucks a month. I guarantee that's a better deal than your last streaming service. https://supporters.eff.org/donate/support-effs-work-certbot--s

We sat down with artist and activist Emma Shapiro to talk about the need for visual art to be a larger part of the wider discussion about free expression online. Read the full conversation, and other Speaking Freely interviews here: https://www.eff.org/pages/speaking-freely-emma-shapiro

EFF fights for your privacy and free expression in the courts and through legislation. But did you know we also maintain public interest technology like Certbot, which helps encrypt millions of sites across the web? 🤖 Support this important work today. https://supporters.eff.org/donate/support-work-on-certbot--s

Software developer Ola Bini was acquitted of a cybercrime charge last year—a court found the evidence failed to demonstrate a crime had occurred.

Prosecutors are now using the same evidence to try and overturn the ruling. The Ecuadorian appeals court should reject prosecutors' attempt to recycle evidence and uphold Bini's acquittal. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/ola-bini-faces-ecuadorian-prosecutors-seeking-overturn-acquittal-cybercrime-charge

Checking a box to access public Wi-Fi does not waive Fourth Amendment rights. We hope the Oregon Supreme Court will agree. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/eff-asks-oregon-supreme-court-not-limit-fourth-amendemtn-rights-based-terms

“We found that many California law enforcement agencies share this (automated license plate reader) data not just out of state but specifically with agencies in states that ban abortions,” EFF’s Jennifer Pinsof told the San Mateo Daily Journal. https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/license-plate-readers-to-increase-throughout-county/article_3af96c58-f0da-11ee-91f1-8b4e10075b4d.html

“This [proposal] turns the City of Atlanta into an open-air prison for everyone on electronic monitoring,” EFF’s @cooperq told the Atlanta Community Press Collective. https://atlpresscollective.com/2024/04/01/atlanta-police-foundation-pushed-unprecedented-surveillance-plan/