A Win for Encryption: France Rejects Backdoor Mandate

#privacy #endtoendencryption #electronicfrontierfoundation #eff #digitalrights #digitalprivacy
posted by pod_feeder_v2

A Win for Encryption: France Rejects Backdoor Mandate

In a moment of clarity after initially moving forward a deeply flawed piece of legislation, the French National Assembly has done the right thing: it rejected a dangerous proposal that would have gutted end-to-end encryption in the name of fighting d…

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Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying

#celltracking #electronicfrontierfoundation #eff #digitalrights #digitalprivacy
posted by pod_feeder_v2

Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying

At EFF we spend a lot of time thinking about Street Level Surveillance technologies—the technologies used by police and other authorities to spy on you while you are going about your everyday life—such as automated license plate readers, facial recog…

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Utah Bill Aims to Make Officers Disclose AI-Written Police Reports

#electronicfrontierfoundation #eff #digitalrights #digitalprivacy
posted by pod_feeder_v2

Utah Bill Aims to Make Officers Disclose AI-Written Police Reports

A bill headed to the Senate floor in Utah would require officers to disclose if a police report was written by generative AI. The bill, S.B. 180, requires a department to have a policy governing the use of AI.

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Closing the Gap in Encryption on Mobile

#mobiledevices #encryptingtheweb #securityeducation #electronicfrontierfoundation #eff #digitalrights #digitalprivacy
posted by pod_feeder_v2

Closing the Gap in Encryption on Mobile

It’s time to expand encryption on Android and iPhone. With governments around the world engaging in constant attacks on user’s digital rights and access to the internet, removing glaring and potentially dangerous targets off of people’s backs when th…

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Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data

#privacy #socialmediasurveillance #onlinebehavioraltracking #electronicfrontierfoundation #eff #digitalrights #digitalprivacy
posted by pod_feeder_v2

Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data

If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data.

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Deepening Government Use of AI and E-Government Transition in Latin America: 2024 in Review

#artificialintelligencemachinelearning #electronicfrontierfoundation #eff #digitalrights #digitalprivacy
posted by pod_feeder_v2

Deepening Government Use of AI and E-Government Transition in Latin America: 2024 in Review

Policies aimed at fostering digital government processes are gaining traction in Latin America, at local and regional levels.

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Firefox survey

When using Firefox which of the following do you do?

See Esther's post for article about Firefox being at only 2.2% use per Google Analytics for US government sites:

https://mastodon.social/@estherschindler@hachyderm.io/111536411958417952

Feel free to boost for visibility

#Firefox #InternetPrivacy #WebPrivacy #DigitalPrivacy #GoogleAnalytics #InherentlyBoostable

• use a DNS blackhole to block Google Analytics (31%, 49 votes)
• use browser add on to block Google Analytics, ad b (86%, 133 votes)
• don't block Google Analytics in any way (4%, 7 votes)
• Pepper&Carrot ( see results w/o participating ) (5%, 8 votes)