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LGBT Q&A: How Can I Wipe Online Data That Points To My Queer Identity?
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (206+ words) This Pride, we're answering all your digital rights questions in season two of our initiative, LGBT Q&A." You Asked: Is there a way for me to wipe data about me online that could point to my queer identity? EFF's Answer:…...
LGBT Q&A: What Data Are Companies in the UK Collecting When Verifying My Age?
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (445+ words) This Pride, we're answering all your digital rights questions in season two of our initiative, LGBT Q&A." You Asked: I live in the UK, and we have age verification now on a bunch of websites (including Reddit) and now on…...
EFF to Gov. Pritzker: Veto Illinois" HB 5511
4+ day, 45+ min ago (340+ words) Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF to Gov. Pritzker: Veto Illinois" HB 5511 The Illinois legislature recently passed House Bill 5511, which imposes a sweeping, device-level age-gating framework across nearly all internet-enabled hardware, operating systems, and online services. This well-intentioned but deeply flawed piece…...
Victory! Supreme Court Says Constitution Protects People's Location Data
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (342+ words) You have an expectation of privacy in location data that reveals your movements in the physical world, and even short-term surveillance of these movements is a search subject to the Fourth Amendment, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled today in Chatrie v. United…...
EFF to Grindr: This Pride Month, Put Safety and Privacy Over Profits
6+ day, 23+ hour 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…...
Lawmakers Must Act Now to Prevent Armed Police Drones
1+ week, 2+ hour 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…...
Hate "The Algorithm?" RSS Is One of the Tools You've Been Looking For
1+ week, 3+ 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…...
We Can Still Stop California's 3 D Printer Surveillance Scheme
1+ week, 4+ 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…...
Primed for Malware: Stop Selling Compromised Android Devices
1+ week, 17+ 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…...
Four Years After Dobbs, Anti-Abortion Lawmakers Keep Coming for Online Speech
1+ week, 22+ 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…...