Notices by Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social), page 51

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

The State of California is currently rolling out a “mobile driver’s license” (mDL), a form of digital identification that raises significant privacy and equity concerns. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/decoding-california-dmvs-mobile-drivers-license

The State of California is currently rolling out a “mobile driver’s license” (mDL), a form of digital identification that raises significant privacy and equity concerns. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/decoding-california-dmvs-mobile-drivers-license

Passcodes, biometrics, cloud storage... data encryption on your iPhone can get confusing. Here's everything you need to know. https://ssd.eff.org/module/how-encrypt-your-iphone

Speaking Freely is back with new interviews in 2024. https://www.eff.org/pages/speaking-freely-maryam-al-khawaja

When police are deployed based on a ShotSpotter alert, officers expect to find a person with a gun, which is dangerous for the often-innocent people at the scene of the alert. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/responding-shotspotter-police-shoot-child-lighting-fireworks

AI does what we teach it to do. Once you accept that, it becomes substantially easier to avoid doomsday scenarios. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/how-avoid-ai-apocalypse-one-easy-step

Police are using DNA to create hypothetical face renderings—then using these images as a clue to base investigations on.

If this wasn't bad enough, police in California ran one of these images through face recognition tech. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/cops-running-dna-manufactured-faces-through-face-recognition-tornado-bad-ideas

If your car was built in the last decade or so, it's probably collecting and potentially sharing all sorts of data about you. Here’s how to figure out what that might include. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/how-figure-out-what-your-car-knows-about-you-and-opt-out-sharing-when-you-can

While responding to a ShotSpotter alert, a Chicago police officer opened fire on an unarmed child in his backyard lighting fireworks. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/responding-shotspotter-police-shoot-child-lighting-fireworks

“If House members were really concerned about privacy, there wouldn’t be much of an obstacle to… having a (comprehensive data privacy) bill on the floor, being debated, being worked on," EFF’s @davidgreene told The National Desk. But that's not happening. https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/congress-is-focusing-on-the-wrong-problem-with-tiktok-bill-experts-warn-data-collection-bytedance-privacy-expert-data-bought-sold-corporations-freedon-of-expression-ccp-china-foreign-adversaries-third-party-brokers

Social media companies can marshal stronger tech solutions against doxxing than lawmakers stymied by bureaucracy, EFF’s @evacide told The Miami Hurricane. “Normalizing this behavior and treating it as a ‘fans will be fans’ kind of thing is quite dangerous.”
https://themiamihurricane.com/2024/03/21/how-a-vicious-spat-between-two-female-rap-stars-revealed-americas-feeble-framework-for-battling-doxxing/

“For 30 years, they’ve been complaining about problems at the border, and for 30 years, surveillance has been touted as the answer,” EFF’s Dave Maass told @themarkup “It’s been 30 years of nobody saying that it’s had any impact.” https://themarkup.org/news/2024/03/22/the-future-of-border-patrol-ai-is-always-watching

We told the California Appeal Court: if this trial court's ruling were to stand, Snapchat and similar platforms will be incentivized to remove features from their online services, resulting in bland—and potentially more privacy invasive—platforms. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/eff-california-appellate-court-reject-trial-judges-ruling-would-penalize

EFF seeks to shine light on the many sealed and heavily redacted filings in a recently settled telecommunications patent case in Texas involving Charter Communications and Entropic Communications. NextTV has the story.
https://www.nexttv.com/news/electronic-frontier-foundation-seeks-to-unseal-docsis-related-patent-beef-between-charter-and-entropic

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“The State Department has been highly critical of countries that have shut down services” the way that some in Congress now want to ban TikTok, EFF’s @davidgreene told @engadget. “Shutting down a whole service is essentially an anti-democratic thing.”
https://www.engadget.com/the-case-against-the-tiktok-ban-bill-161517973.html

“When we’re going to implement rules or understandings around freedom of expression it needs to be implemented equally. It needs to be implemented without double standards. Without picking and choosing who gets to have freedom of expression versus who doesn’t.”

For the latest in our Speaking Freely interview series, we sat down with Bahraini Woman Human Rights Defender Maryam Al-Khawaja. Read more at https://www.eff.org/pages/speaking-freely-maryam-al-khawaja

Age-verification laws not only create risk for the user’s privacy but also gate off content that should be perfectly legal for people to see—and legal for them to see anonymously, EFF’s @jgkelley told Slate. https://slate.com/technology/2024/03/texas-porn-pornhub-first-amendment-drivers-license.html

We’re proud to announce that EFF’s @zoracon is among “The Identity 25,” Okta Ventures’ initiative “that shines a spotlight on the trailblazers in the burgeoning field of digital identity.”