21+ hour, 30+ min ago  (284+ words) This Pride month, we're calling on the dating app Grindr to prioritize LGBTQ+ user safety by making privacy the default across its platform. That means no more sharing personal data with advertisers or training AI on private information without users…...

1+ day, 50+ min ago  (803+ words) Electronic Frontier Foundation Lawmakers Must Act Now to Prevent Armed Police Drones This is not science fiction. It's not premature. If towns, cities, states, or the federal government want to act to reign in the emergence of armed police drones…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (258+ words) RSS has been around since 1999, but its real publicity glow-up came from Google Reader, a newsreader service that Google offered between 2005 and 2013. Despite the alarm bells people rang at the time, the death of Google Reader wasn't the death of…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (243+ words) Starting with one silver lining, the current bill includes a carveout for the private resale of devices. The original bill would have made it a criminal offense for an individual to resell 3 D printers purchased before this mandated censorship and…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (1012+ words) Time and time again, researchers have found numerous compromised Android devices for sale at large online retailers like Amazon. When these devices get individually reported, we have seen some noted efforts to take them down. But this is a systemic…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (413+ words) The clearest tell that this is also a war on speech is that officials have aimed their efforts not just at abortion providers or the entities that prescribe and sell medication abortion, but also at websites that do nothing more…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (347+ words) This Rule Will Not Decrease Spam Calls" The FCC gives away the true reason for this proposal in their own comments: this is a move to shut down the very existence of anonymous phones, aka burner phones. FCC says in…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (728+ words) The package of cobbled-together bills is a mess, with different age-gating schemes for different services, using different standards. It's a lot of complexity, and a lot of legal risk. Faced with that, many companies will conclude that the safest option…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (50+ words) Sold to the public as a foreign surveillance tool, Section 702 is the law has let intelligence agencies spy on millions of Americans" private conversations without a warrant. Despite years of revelations about this law's misuse, Congress has repeatedly reauthorized Section…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (465+ words) This week, politicians in the UK pushed forward with plans to eviscerate privacy and free speech on the internet by announcing a ban on social media for users under 16 that is set to take effect in Spring 2027." The UK government…...