Notices by Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social), page 55

It’s here! Signal finally gets the long-requested username feature, making it possible to share your contact info without giving out your phone number. We've updated our SSD guide with directions to set it up. https://ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-use-signal

“You can't sort of make these cosmetic changes around the edges of what is fundamentally an age-verification scheme that is completely at odds with the First Amendment,” EFF’s @aaronmackey told Florida's WUSF Public Media. https://www.wusf.org/politics-issues/2024-03-05/critics-say-floridas-proposed-social-media-ban-for-children-is-unconstitutional

"Just removing traditional identifiers such as name or SSN from a dataset isn't nearly enough,” EFF’s @legind told @theregister “In fact, unique IDs which are assigned to an individual may be more identifying than a person's name." https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/05/us_europe_capitalism/

“The cameras are everywhere,” EFF’s @Adam_D_Schwartz told @nbcnews “They are networked. The footage can be searched with automated tools. This raises profound concerns.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jennifer-dulos-fotis-michelle-traconis-murder-video-rcna141049

Join us in celebrating 15 years of Surveillance Self-Defense, our guide to protecting yourself and your friends from online spying. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/celebrating-15-years-surveillance-self-defense

Virtual reality can be a powerful tool to investigate and explore actual reality. Learn how EFF's @maassive leads VR tours of surveillance tech at the US-Mexico border in this interview with @themarkup's @moniqueomadan. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/virtual-reality-tour-surveillance-tech-border-conversation-dave-maass-electronic

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

For data brokers dealing with our personal information, our data can either be useful for their profit-making or truly anonymous, but not both. Our privacy rights online must not be sacrificed so corporations can fill their pockets. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/debunking-myth-anonymous-data

Decentralized web technologies have the potential to make the internet more robust and efficient, supporting a new wave of innovation. However, the fundamental technologies and services that make it work are already being hit with overreaching legal threats. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/defending-access-decentralized-web

Laws that let governments pressure online intermediaries to moderate user speech clearly interfere with their editorial freedom. That’s like requiring news outlets to let law enforcement listen in on editorial board meetings. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/eff-urges-ninth-circuit-reinstate-xs-legal-challenge-unconstitutional-california

Taiwan Digital Minister @au joins “How to Fix the Internet” with EFF’s Cindy Cohn and Jason Kelley to discuss using technology including AI to help surface our areas of agreement, rather than to identify and exacerbate our differences.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/podcast-episode-open-source-beats-authoritarianism

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It's wrong to dodge Congress to continue often-abused, unconstitutional surveillance, EFF’s @BrendanGilligan told @theregister. "Congress must significantly reform the law, or it must sunset— those are the only two options to protect Americans' rights." https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/29/fisa_section_702_wyden/

Prop E reduces Police Commission oversight, lets SFPD abuse surveillance tech like facial recognition and drones without oversight for a year, allows more dangerous car chases, and more, EFF's Saira Hussain told CBS San Francisco - a kitchen sink of bad ideas. #NOPEonE
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/video/eff-opposes-san-franciscos-proposition-e/

MPs in Ghana have voted to pass the country’s draconian “Family Values Bill.” It creates severe consequences not just for LGBTQ+ people in Ghana, but for the very principle of free expression online and off. President Nana Akufo-Addo must reject it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/ghanas-president-must-refuse-sign-anti-lgbtq-bill

Yes, we flew a plane over San Francisco to fight Proposition E. Here's why: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/yes-we-flew-plane-over-san-francisco-fight-proposition-eheres-why

“This is how any new surveillance method starts out: The government says we’re only going to use this in the most extreme cases,” EFF’s @cooperq told the @washingtonpost. “But these things always end up rolling downhill.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/29/push-notification-surveillance-fbi/

As many other cultures & governments have locked up data, Taiwan has shown that openness not only works but can win against more authoritarian competition, Taiwan Digital Minister @au tells EFF’s Cindy Cohn and @jgkelley on “How to Fix the Internet.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/podcast-episode-open-source-beats-authoritarianism

Beware of trademark-protection tech that mass-blocks domain registrations, EFF’s Kit Walsh told @BleepingComputer. ”Domain names are themselves a form of speech that we don't want to see constrained by overzealous attempts at brand enforcement." https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/registrars-can-now-block-all-domains-that-resemble-brand-names/

As Taiwan’s Digital Minister, @au has taken the best of open source and open culture, and successfully used them to help reform her country’s government. Hear how on “How to Fix the Internet” with EFF’s Cindy Cohn and Jason Kelley.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/podcast-episode-open-source-beats-authoritarianism