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Ten Questions—And Answers—About the California Consumer Privacy Act | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 26 février 2020
You may have heard from a lot of businesses telling you that they’ve updated their privacy policies because of a new law called the California Consumer Privacy Act. But what’s actually changed for you ?
EFF has spent the past year defending this law in the California legislature, but we realize that not everyone (...)
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California Auditor Releases Damning Report About Law Enforcement’s Use of Automated License Plate Readers | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 22 février 2020
California police and sheriffs are failing to protect the privacy of drivers on city streets, the California State Auditor’s office determined after a seven-month investigation into the use of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) by the Los Angeles Police Department and three other local law enforcement (...)
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How To Protect Your Phone Number On Twitter | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 13 février 2020
The bad news is that Twitter has disclosed a failure to protect users’ phone numbers, again. The good news is that Twitter users can take steps to protect themselves.
Earlier this week, Twitter announced it had discovered and shut down “a large network of fake accounts” that were uploading large numbers of phone (...)
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Clearview’s Face Surveillance Shows Why We Need a Strong Federal Consumer Privacy Law | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 1er février 2020
The New York Times’ recent story on Clearview AI, maker of a secretive facial recognition app that markets its product to law enforcement, has raised critical questions about what can be done to protect our privacy online. Clearview claims to have amassed a dataset of over three billion face images by scraping (...)
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Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 29 janvier 2020
Ring isn’t just a product that allows users to surveil their neighbors. The company also uses it to surveil its customers.
An investigation by EFF of the Ring doorbell app for Android found it to be packed with third-party trackers sending out a plethora of customers’ personally identifiable information (PII). Four (...)
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Top Apps Invade User Privacy By Collecting and Sharing Personal Data, New Report Finds | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 18 janvier 2020
A new year often starts with good resolutions. Some resolve to change a certain habit, others resolve to abandon an undesired trait. Mobile app makers, too, claim to have user behavior and their preferences at their heart. From dating to health to music, their promise is to add convenience to consumers’ lives or to (...)
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EFF Report Shows FBI Is Failing to Address First Amendment Harms Caused By National Security Letters - 14 décembre 2019
EFF has long fought to end the FBI’s ability to impose gag orders via National Security Letters (NSLs). They violate the First Amendment and result in indefinite prohibitions on recipients’ ability to speak publicly about controversial government surveillance powers. Records and data released by the FBI earlier this (...)
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Help stop the sale of Public Interest Registry to a Private Equity Firm - 4 décembre 2019
A growing list of organizations is urging the Internet Society (ISOC) to stop the sale of the Public Interest Registry (PIR)—the organization that manages the .ORG top-level domain—to private equity firm Ethos Capital. Our message is clear : the NGO community should have a voice in decisions affecting the future of (...)
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Behind the One-Way Mirror : A Deep Dive Into the Technology of Corporate Surveillance - 4 décembre 2019
Trackers are hiding in nearly every corner of today’s Internet, which is to say nearly every corner of modern life. The average web page shares data with dozens of third-parties. The average mobile app does the same, and many apps collect highly sensitive information like location and call records even when they’re (...)
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DEEP DIVE : EFF to DHS : Stop Mass Collection of Social Media Information - 1er décembre 2019
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently released a proposed rule expanding the agency’s collection of social media information on key visa forms and immigration applications. Earlier this month, EFF joined over 40 civil society organizations that signed on to comments drafted by the Brennan Center for (...)
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About Face - 28 novembre 2019
Law enforcement use of face recognition technology poses a profound threat to personal privacy, political and religious expression, and the fundamental freedom to go about our lives without having our movements and associations covertly monitored and analyzed.
This technology can be used for identifying or (...)
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Victory : Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Police Can’t Force You to Tell Them Your Password - 25 novembre 2019
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a forceful opinion today holding that the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects individuals from being forced to disclose the passcode to their devices to the police. In a 4-3 decision in Commonwealth v. Davis, the court found that disclosing a password is (...)
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Congress, Remember the 4th Amendment ? It’s Time to Stop the U.S.-UK Agreement. - 6 novembre 2019
Unless Congress stops it, foreign police will soon be able to collect and search data on the servers of U.S. Internet companies. They’ll be able to do it without a probable cause warrant, or any oversight from a U.S. judge. This is all happening because of a new law enforcement deal between the U.S. and the United (...)
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The Ethics Board of One of the Largest Vendors of Police Tech Makes the Case Against ALPRs - 30 octobre 2019
Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs)"”a mass surveillance technology that allows law enforcement to record the location and travel patterns of nearly every driver on the road"”are poorly regulated, threaten privacy, and worsen the racial and economic inequalities already ingrained in our justice system.
That’s (...)
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The House Votes in Favor of Disastrous Copyright Bill - 26 octobre 2019
It’s Not Too Late : The Senate Can Still Stop the CASE Act
The House of Representatives has just voted in favor of the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act (CASE Act) by 410-6 (with 16 members not voting), moving forward a bill that Congress has had no hearings and no debates on so far this (...)
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Ready to Pay $30,000 for Sharing a Photo Online ? The House of Representatives Thinks You Are - 22 octobre 2019
Tomorrow the House of Representatives has scheduled to vote on what appears to be an unconstitutional copyright bill that carries with it life altering penalties. The bill would slap $30,000 fines on Internet users who share a copyrighted work they don’t own online.
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Today : Tell Congress Not to Pass Another Bad Copyright Law - 18 octobre 2019
Today, Congress is back in session after a two-week break. Now that they’re back, we’re asking you to take a few minutes to call and tell them not to pass the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement (CASE) Act. The CASE Act would create an obscure board inside the U.S. Copyright Office which would be (...)
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Secret Court Rules That the FBI’s "Backdoor Searches" of Americans Violated the Fourth Amendment - 16 octobre 2019
But the Court Misses the Larger Problem : Section 702’s Mass Surveillance is Inherently Unconstitutional
EFF has long maintained that it is impossible to conduct mass surveillance and still protect the privacy and constitutional rights of innocent Americans, much less the human rights of innocent people around the (...)
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China’s Global Reach : Surveillance and Censorship Beyond the Great Firewall - 16 octobre 2019
Those outside the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are accustomed to thinking of the Internet censorship practices of the Chinese state as primarily domestic, enacted through the so-called "Great Firewall""”a system of surveillance and blocking technology that prevents Chinese citizens from viewing websites outside (...)
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Tell HUD : Algorithms Shouldn’t Be an Excuse to Discriminate - 15 octobre 2019
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently released a proposed rule that will have grave consequences for the enforcement of fair housing laws. Under the Fair Housing Act, individuals can bring claims on the basis of a protected characteristic (like race, sex, or disability status) when (...)
