Mastodawn

Client-side scanning is back in the conversation.

It sounds harmless, but scanning messages before they are sent breaks the promise of end-to-end encryption. Privacy should not depend on what is considered acceptable to scan.

Read link below.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/client-side-scanning-threatens-end-to-end-encryption

Should private messages ever be scanned at all?

#Privacy #Encryption #DigitalRights

Subconscious Proxy 1h ago

South Korea Gives Everyone Free Mobile Internet — Just Don't Expect More Than 400 Kbps
https://abit.ee/en/artificial-intelligence/south-korea-free-internet-mobile-internet-sk-telecom-kt-lg-uplus-5g-digital-rights-en
#SouthKorea #DigitalRights #UniversalAccess #PublicInfrastructure #NetNeutrality

Michael J Burgess 1h ago

EFF is right: schools and libraries should install Privacy Badger on managed devices. People using public and school computers should not be tracked by default. Privacy should be part of digital care, not an optional extra.

Should private browsing be the default on every shared device?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/libraries-schools-why-organizations-should-install-privacy-badger

#Privacy #PrivacyBadger #EFF #Libraries #Schools #StudentPrivacy #DigitalRights

From Libraries to Schools: Why Organizations Should Install Privacy Badger

In an era of pervasive online surveillance, organizations have an important role to play in protecting their communities’ privacy. Schools, libraries, and other organizations can make private browsing the norm by deploying Privacy Badger on their computers.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

MetaAdvisor– Tech, AI & Crypto 2h ago

We started tracking this on April 4 — just under 61,800 signatures.
As of April 10: 62,603 and still rising.

What’s happening here?

How many people feel they were wrongfully disabled?

#AIFailure #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #AIModeration #DigitalRights #EU #DSA #BigTech #Tech #SocialMedia #AccountBan #FreeSpeech #Algorithms #Fediverse

FYI: Not financial advice

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Scott Sand 4h ago

@itsfoss Just... Nope. The whole thing about OS age verification is simply preposterous, ludicrous and quite frankly unethical. How is it even enforceable? Madness! #Privacy #DigitalRights

Subconscious Proxy 4h ago

Dad stuck in support nightmare after teen lied about age on Discord - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/dad-stuck-in-support-nightmare-after-teen-lied-about-age-on-discord/

#TechPolicy #OnlineSafety #DigitalRights #ParentingTech #FediversePolicy

Digital Justice Society 4h ago

After 20 years the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is leaving Twitter/X and it’s a big moment.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x

Reflections in the article on when to stay in toxic spaces for the benefit of others and when it truely is time to call it and get the hell out.

Show the EFF your support for once again taking a stand, you can follow them here: @eff

#DigitalJustice #DigitalRights #Twitter #X #TimeToGo #EFF

EFF is Leaving X

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Yale Privacy Lab 7h ago

✊ #DigitalRights updates from #EFF https://eff.org

“Our continued presence on other platforms like Facebook and TikTok is not an endorsement. We stay because the people there deserve access to info, too. We stay because the fewer steps between you and the resources you ne...”

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