Gregory's ServerEFF is deeply concerned about the arrest last month of Alexey Soldatov, “father of the Russian internet,” and call for his immediate release https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/eff-calls-release-alexey-soldatov-father-russian-internet
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TONIGHT at 7:30 PM PT we're celebrating leaders in the digital rights movement at EFF Awards Ceremony! You can join us, along with special guest Elizabeth Minkel, from home here: https://livestream.eff.org The trend of building surveillance into all new smart TVs is "incredibly invasive and little understood,” EFF’s Jacob Hoffman-Andrews told @arstechnica. "Nobody wants a snooping and snitching television, but lately that's all you can buy.” https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/tv-industrys-ads-tracking-obsession-is-turning-your-living-room-into-a-store/
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@eff @arstechnica Setting aside the surveillance, smart TVs have become more cumbersome to use. They’re slow, constantly ask for updates (what am I agreeing to before I watch Jeopardy?), and mine is just buggy. User experience with the appliance itself is just bad. But on plus side, I watch TV less and spend more time on hobbies. @eff @arstechnica As others have said, buy a regular smart TV and just don't allow it on the internet. If it requires a connection in order to function (such as Google) don't buy that model of television. Lastly, I've had issues with mixing PiHole and TV boxes like Google TV and Apple. The PiHole seems to prevent them from remembering which episode I'm on. Anyone else experience this? This article is about TVs, but now I'm wondering if screen projectors for "home cinema" also spy on you? Join EFF Tech Trivia at @defcon with special guest judges Kate Bertash, @Kurt, and @eismc2. Find us in rooms 307-308 at the LVCC on Satuday, August 10 at 18:30 #EFFTechTrivia https://www.eff.org/techtrivia #defcon “Banning Flipper Zero devices is tantamount to banning a multi-tool because it can be used for vandalism, or banning markers because they can be used for graffiti,” EFF’s @legind told @Motherboard. https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a388g/flipper-zero-ban-canada-hacking-car-thefts
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People are pushing back on the overly-centralized social media platforms, and this year it led to an explosion of exciting projects in decentralization. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/taking-back-web-decentralization-2023-review  @eff ...and one open standard. Why are you pushing all these one-off projects? We need you advocating for the fediverse.  I want to emphasize here that I think the same must happen for e-commerce. Platforms like Amazon, Facebook, even eBay etc exercise despotic control over vendors and customers. From municipal web access, to hosting services, libraries streaming music or say a town e-commerce platform, to the growth of coop owned platforms, all which could federate a proper anti totalitarian model must evolve. The Bork anti-trust doctrine must be shredded as well. :thread: People are increasingly skeptical of big centralized intermediaries controlling our life online. Some new peer-to-peer projects may do away with intermediaries all together. We are #thankful for open source projects decentralizing the social web.   HTTPS encryption for EU residents is at risk, as the soon-to-be-passed Article 45 removes browsers’ control over security for their users.
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@daniel_freund Dear Daniel, is there anything the EuroParl can do to stop the Art.45 attack on civil liberties in the #eidas2 regulation? With several far-right/autocrat-leaning countries in the EU, how is this not a huge risk to EU citizens? Are the Greens onto it?  The take away is that when this passes, we should distrust all CA's and verify certificates on important servers another way.
BTW, this attack was already used against a Russian xmpp server at Hetzner. The trust model is fundamentally broken Today, so many people used EFF's Action Center to tell Congress not to pass the EARN IT Act and the STOP CSAM Act that it briefly took the system offline. It's back up, and you can take action here: https://act.eff.org/action/the-earn-it-act-is-back-seeking-to-scan-us-all https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-outlaw-encrypted-applications "Clearview is a private company that is making face prints of people based on their photos online without their consent," EFF’s Matthew Guariglia spoke with BBC News for a story about this "huge problem for civil liberties and civil rights" that absolutely needs to be banned." https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65057011 If you're in the UK, you can also watch the video interview discussing the problems with this controversial technology: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001km2c/our-world-facial-recognition-fighting-crime Worried about TikTok? Then pass comprehensive consumer data privacy legislation. By reducing the massive stores of personal data collected by all businesses, we will reduce opportunities for all governments to buy or steal this data. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/government-hasnt-justified-tiktok-ban  @eff We’re hiring for a Senior System Administrator. Join the team! https://www.eff.org/opportunities/jobs/senior-system-administrator EFF is proud to defend the @internetarchive in this case, and we will keep fighting for a robust and vibrant digital future.
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 The long-term impact of Russia’s new root certificate is not clear, but the digital security of Russian citizens is already splintered. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/you-should-not-trust-russias-new-trusted-root-ca Privacy Badger is EFF's free install-and-forget browser add-on that stops advertisers and trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web. Check it out today https://privacybadger.org Network effect let Facebook attract billions of users who joined to talk to people who were already there. Switching costs turned those users into hostages - blocking interoperability means users have to choose between friends and fleeing the platform. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/facebooks-secret-war-switching-costs |
