Notices by Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social), page 61

EFF & 100+ NGOs continue to urge UN Member States to protect human rights in the UN Cybercrime Treaty. It must have a narrow scope, no invasive surveillance powers, and robust safeguards. If these redlines can't be met, it must be rejected. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/eff-and-more-100-ngos-set-non-negotiable-redlines-ahead-un-cybercrime-treaty

In the battleground of history, archival work is cultural defense. Luckily, digital media can be quickly and cheaply duplicated and shared. #copyrightweek #twitter https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/save-your-twitter-account

Join EFF’s India McKinney, PEN America’s Jacqueline Allain and New Moon Network’s Melodie Garcia this Tuesday, Jan. 30 for Woodhull Freedom Foundation's “The Road Ahead: Navigating Legislative Censorship in 2024.” Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-road-ahead-navigating-legislative-censorship-in-2024-tickets-793192278457?aff=oddtdtcreator

If San Francisco’s Proposition E passes, we can expect the police to use untested and potentially dangerous surveillance technology on the public for a full year without oversight. We believe police should know how surveillance tech works before unleashing it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/san-francisco-vote-no-proposition-e-stop-police-testing-dangerous-surveillance

Thanks to public support, EFF is a leading voice for users’ rights online. By donating today, you can ensure that EFF’s team of public interest lawyers, tech developers, and activists remain a beacon for a brighter web. https://eff.org/join

VICTORY! Ring has announced it will no longer facilitate warrantless police requests for footage to Ring’s users. This comes after years of sustained pressure from EFF and other civil liberties and privacy advocates. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/ring-announces-it-will-no-longer-facilitate-police-requests-footage-users

The proliferation of DRM and walled-garden game vendors has eroded ownership rights over video games, and risks the same fragmented subscription frustrations we see with film. #copyrightweek #videogames https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/fragging-subscription-model-comes-gamers

“Ring hopefully will altogether be out of the business of platforming casual and warrantless police requests for footage to its users,” EFF’s Matthew Guariglia told @verge though we remain "deeply skeptical" about how police and Ring will cooperate.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/24/24049165/ring-police-neighbors-app-clips-search-warrant

The latest #UNCybercrimeTreaty draft “requires a complete overhaul towards a more focused, narrowly defined approach to tackle cybercrime,” EFF’s Katitza Rodriguez told The Record by Recorded Future News. “Human rights must be the treaty's cornerstone, not an afterthought.”
https://therecord.media/consensus-growing-around-cybercrime-treaty

The U.S. Senate has a chance to pass critical protections for journalists -- help us tell them this must be a priority. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-to-pass-the-press-act-now

The government surveillance of journalists over the years has chilled their ability to gather news. The PRESS Act would ban this wrongful surveillance. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/press-act-will-protect-journalists-when-they-need-it-most

Using AI to create a face from crime-scene DNA & then running it through face recognition tech isn’t only “junk science,” EFF’s Jennifer Lynch told @WIRED - “It’s very dangerous, because it puts people at risk of being a suspect for a crime they didn’t commit.”
https://www.wired.com/story/parabon-nanolabs-dna-face-models-police-facial-recognition/

“Whether material is legally ‘obscene’ or not is a determination for a jury that has considered evidence, not a machine applying blunt detection systems and making its own value judgments,” EFF’s @davidgreene told the Missouri Independent regarding Missouri's proposed law. https://missouriindependent.com/2024/01/22/missouri-legislature-weighs-age-verification-mandates-for-adult-websites/

Strong, unique passwords are a must, and it's not as hard to accomplish as you might think. https://ssd.eff.org/module/creating-strong-passwords

Research into adversarial watermarking for AI is just beginning, and while there’s no strong reason to believe it will succeed, there are some good reasons to believe it will ultimately fail. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/ai-watermarking-wont-curb-disinformation

Companies need to be working harder to discern real law enforcement warrants from fake ones.  https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/companies-make-it-too-easy-thieves-impersonate-police-and-steal-our-data

Since EFF was formed in 1990, we’ve been working hard to protect digital rights for all. And this year, here’s what we’d like to see a lot more of, and a lot less of. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/effs-2024-inout-list

We live in a culture where companies are too quick to fulfill police requests for personal data on users–and it’s a situation ripe for abuse. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/companies-make-it-too-easy-thieves-impersonate-police-and-steal-our-data

Missouri: EFA member MOKANCAN will be hosting their regular meeting at Grandview’s Mid-Continent Public Library to talk cybersecurity and privacy rights this Sunday. https://www.eff.org/event/missouri-mokancan-meet

The new “No AI FRAUD Act” would sweep everything from pictures of your kid to recordings of political events into a law that is meant to protect our likenesses from being used for false depictions. Congress should not even consider it.  https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/no-ai-fraud-act-creates-way-more-problems-it-solves