Notices by Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social), page 50

Almost all of us rely on Wi-Fi outside of our homes. That access should be protected against government surveillance. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/eff-asks-oregon-supreme-court-not-limit-fourth-amendemtn-rights-based-terms

AI does what we teach it to. It mimics the decisions it is taught to make either through hypothetical or historical data. This means that, yet again, we are not powerless to a coming AI doomsday. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/how-avoid-ai-apocalypse-one-easy-step

It should be your right to engage with public officials on social media if they use that account and platform for government business. The Supreme Court agrees—with several large caveats. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/us-supreme-court-does-not-go-far-enough-determining-when-government-officials-are

EFF has your back, no matter if you’re online or on the streets. That’s why we’re working on projects like Privacy Badger and our Surveillance Self-Defense guides. Help support our work by becoming a member today: https://eff.org/mjoin

Canada, let's get real: restricting access to devices like the Flipper Zero will hamper development of strong, secure technologies, and won't solve the problem of car hacking. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/restricting-flipper-zero-accountability-approach-security-canadian-government

Tech developers must consider not only how to solve the puzzle, but also the implications of how their tech will be used. On “How to Fix the Internet,” we discuss how face recognition endangers everyone’s privacy, even if that wasn’t the original intention. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/podcast-episode-about-face-recognition

“The fact that they have this data in the first place and are allowing people to share it is certainly disturbing,” EFF’s @evacide told @WIRED. “I just don’t know how many more of these stories we need to have in order to get strong privacy regulations.”
https://www.wired.com/story/jeffrey-epstein-island-visitors-data-broker-leak/

Read the NY Times' report: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/technology/israel-facial-recognition-gaza.html

Israel has deployed face recognition tech for mass surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza, the NY Times reports. Hear our new interview with @kashhill on how this tech’s rapid evolution may have outpaced ethics and regulations, & where we might go from here. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/podcast-episode-about-face-recognition

If you’re interested in content that an app displays in an embedded browser, “I'd recommend copying the link and pasting it into a dedicated browser, which has more granular privacy settings that can be toggled," EFF’s @legind told @theregister. https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/inapp_browsers/

Florida’s new law barring children from social media is vulnerable to a challenge for violating minors’ First Amendment rights, and perhaps also for violating the rights of adults who face age-verification requirements, EFF’s @davidgreene told @AJEnglish https://youtu.be/AUasC2P2pPc?feature=shared

Face recognition technology has outpaced its developers’ ethics and most regulatory efforts, journalist and author @kashhill tells EFF’s Cindy Cohn and @jgkelley on the new episode of “How to Fix the Internet.”
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/podcast-episode-about-face-recognition

In our latest Speaking Freely interview we sit down with Ugandan press freedom advocate Robert Ssempala to learn more about the current environment for freedom of expression in the country. Read the full interview, and the rest in the series, here: https://www.eff.org/pages/speaking-freely-robert-ssempala

“Platforms must not provide special services, like real-time access to the full stream of public-facing posts, to surveillance vendors who share this information with police departments,” EFF’s @Adam_D_Schwartz told @theintercept. https://theintercept.com/2024/03/25/elon-musk-x-dataminr-surveillance-privacy/

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NEW on “How to Fix the Internet” - Journalist and author @kashhill joins EFF’s Cindy Cohn and @jgkelley to discuss how face recognition technology threatens everyone’s privacy, and what we can do about it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/podcast-episode-about-face-recognition

EFF’s @davidgreene told the @washingtonpost he hopes this high-profile ruling against Elon Musk’s X will discourage others from trying to use frivolous lawsuits as a tool for intimidation and silencing critics. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/25/musk-x-lawsuit-slapp-center-digital-hate/

If Alexey Pertsev is convicted, authorities around the world might crack down on developers of privacy-enhancing tech, EFF’s @aaronmackey told DL News. “We’re going to see a lot of potential chilling effects.” https://www.dlnews.com/articles/regulation/tornado-cash-developer-alexey-pertsev-on-trial-this-week/

“We are living in a time when employers, schools, and universities are surveilling their employees and students at unprecedented levels,” EFF’s Matthew Guariglia told @USATODAY. “The concern here, as always, is mission creep.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2024/03/22/air-force-academy-social-media-monitoring-tool/73035142007/

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has been “productive in getting more & more of these agencies to get into compliance” with the law barring police from sharing automated license plate reader data with police in other states, EFF’s Jennifer Pinsof told the @sfchronicle.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/police-data-sharing-19257348.php