Category: eff

How to protect your identity while protesting police brutality

Post author By Randall
Post date June 5, 2020
Categories In dea, dsa, eff, feature, gear, george floyd, ismi, nypd, protests, Safety, signal, stingray, Tech

[ad_1] While there isn’t a whole lot you can do against a cop with a can of mace and an itchy trigger finger, there are plenty of ways to protect your safety, identity and personal data when you’re out exercising your First Amendment rights. You’ll have to do more than follow the Wu-Tang’s advice to […]

Federal judge rules suspicionless device searches at the border are illegal

Post author By Randall
Post date November 12, 2019
Categories In aclu, border, cbp, civil liberties, constitution, customs and border protection, department of homeland security, eff, fourth amendment, gear, government, homeland security, ice, immigration and customs enforcement, law, Politics, Privacy, Security, Tech

[ad_1] Casper also rejected the government’s claim that suspicionless searches would cause minimal harm, noting that agents could both look at past searches and were more likely to search people if there had already been a search before. The ACLU and EFF filed the lawsuit on behalf of 11 travelers (all but one of which […]

Google, Reddit execs to speak at House hearing on internet moderation

Post author By Randall
Post date October 11, 2019
Categories In censorship, communications decency act, congress, eff, electronic frontier foundation, gear, Google, government, house of representatives, Internet, Politics, Reddit, safe harbor, section 230, Tech

[ad_1] The hearing will also include experts from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Alliance to Counter Crime Online, Boston University and UC Berkeley. There’s no guarantee this will lead to legislation. However, it’s entirely possible that existing laws will face a challenge from both sides of the aisle. Democrats like Beto O’Rourke have argued that internet […]

Can the police make me unlock my smartphone?

Post author By Randall
Post date June 29, 2019
Categories In aclu, ask engadget, askengadget, eff, gear, Law Enforcement, lawenforcement, Mobile, Tech, thebuyersguide

[ad_1] Terrence O’BrienManaging Editor Although I’m not a lawyer, I was able to find some information courtesy of the ACLU and the EFF. (Note that this information pertains to US citizens specifically.) If you’re at the border, police are permitted to search your computer and portable devices, regardless of whether they have a warrant. Other […]

Something’s wrong with the war on sex trafficking

Post author By Randall
Post date May 31, 2019
Categories In bad password, badpassword, business, eff, exploitation, Facebook, fosta, fosta-sesta, Google, Internet, Law Enforcement, opinion, palantir, Privacy, safer, Security, services, sex, sex trafficking, spotlight, Tech, thorn, Twitter

[ad_1] Thorn offers internet companies its content moderation tool “Safer,” and for law enforcement, its separate data-mining and user-profiling tool “Spotlight.” Both use data sources and AI to automate policing of sex content. Of Thorn’s 31 nonprofit partners, 27 target adults and vow to abolish consensual sex work under the banner of saving children from […]

Starz apologizes for pushing Twitter to remove tweets on online piracy

Post author By Randall
Post date April 15, 2019
Categories In copyrightinfringement, dmca, dmca takedown, eff, Entertainment, Internet, services, starz, Tech

[ad_1] Techdirt reported that an article from the piracy news site was shared by several accounts over the weekend, including the Columbia Journalism Review‘s Mathew Ingram, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and copyright professor Annemarie Bridy. Twitter, acting on behalf of Starz, then served the accounts with a DMCA takedown despite no links to actual pirated […]