Notices by Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social), page 8

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EFF applauds CFPB's move to subject employers' use of AI and algorithmic scores to the Fair Credit Reporting act, giving workers more transparency and control over the opaque and unaccountable systems that affect their workplace conditions. https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-takes-action-to-curb-unchecked-worker-surveillance/

Freeze! In your weakest moment, you may encounter the Three-Eyed Beast. Its third eye cracks open and a magical gaze illuminates your every move as it squeals in delight. When the eye closes once more, leaving you in the shadows, you realize its gaze was the last to ever find you. https://eff.org/SLSpooky

Location data, harvested from mobile apps, enables law enforcement to monitor individuals through data bought from brokers, often without warrants or oversight.

Careful where you look. Around any corner may loom the Face Stealer, an arachnid mimic that captures your likeness. Everywhere you go people recoil, convinced you’re something monstrous. Survival means adapting to a world where your face is a lure for the horror that claimed it. https://eff.org/SLSpooky

Apply your legal knowledge to real-world digital rights challenges! EFF's legal internship is now accepting applications. https://www.eff.org/about/opportunities/interns

The scariest monsters you’ll see trick-or-treating this Halloween aren’t just for decoration. Year-round monsters of street level surveillance are all too real, plague our communities, worsen societal inequalities, and chill free expression. https://eff.org/SLSpooky

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"You need to create internet policy and tech policy around the issues of tomorrow rather than the issues of just today," EFF’s @zoracon said at this week’s Global Encryption Coalition Summit. "You don't know who's going to be in power tomorrow."
https://www.techradar.com/computing/computing-security/i-attended-the-2024-encryption-summit-here-are-my-5-takeaways

A tool that lets police track phone location data raises concerns “about fishing expeditions, about dragnet surveillance of people crossing state lines in order to go to neighboring states in order to get abortion care,” EFF’s @evacide told @404mediaco. https://www.404media.co/inside-the-u-s-government-bought-tool-that-can-track-phones-at-abortion-clinics/

Surveillance tech like Fusus “gives police the ability to surreptitiously spy on and track people of no real or alleged criminal concern. It creates caches of sensitive, personal information that can be retained indefinitely,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told Sacramento's ABC10.
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/crime/sacramento-public-safety-camera-network/103-e94b0a6d-1696-48bd-893a-29f53515d384

David Burnham - the @nytimes reporter whose investigations were the basis for “Serpico” and “Silkwood” - was among the first to recognize the dangerous impact of the NSA’s capabilities in the emerging digital landscape. He died this month at age 91. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/appreciation-david-burnham

Surveillance towers at the U.S.-Mexico border have been a snafu for decades. "These cameras are largely political theater; the technology dazzles publicly, then fizzles quietly," EFF’s @maassive says in @PCMag. https://www.pcmag.com/news/gop-demands-answers-about-broken-surveillance-cameras-at-the-border

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“If Meta wishes to behave ethically, it must ensure that Palestinians also have a seat at the table,” EFF’s @jilliancyork told @theintercept. https://theintercept.com/2024/10/21/instagram-israel-palestine-censorship-sjp/

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Today, Big Tech wants Congress to preempt state data privacy laws. Twenty years ago, Big Tobacco wanted Congress to preempt state smoking laws for very similar (bad) reasons. Read more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/preemption-playbook-big-techs-blueprint-comes-straight-big-tobacco