Mastodawn

With Rayhunter, we can find out how cell site simulators are being used, and protect ourselves and our communities from this form of surveillance. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying

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

Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators (CSS) around the world.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Alex Crosby 3d ago

Peter Riley 4d ago

https://airesistlist.org/

(Interview) Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/22/data_centers_and_ai

#Ai #datacenters #journalism #resist #techworkers

The AI Resist List

A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.

Alex Crosby 4d ago

Electronic Frontier Foundation 5d ago

The rampant data sharing fueled by online tracking has serious consequences. Privacy Badger blocks online tracking to prevent your browsing data from being used against you. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/online-tracking-out-control-privacy-badger-can-help-you-fight-back

Online Tracking is Out of Control—Privacy Badger Can Help You Fight Back

Every time you browse the web, you're being tracked. That’s why EFF created Privacy Badger, a free, open source browser extension used by millions to fight corporate surveillance and take back control of their data.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Alex Crosby 5d ago

Rik Viergever 5d ago

Pandora's iPhone, by Stuart Carlson, 2016. Still spot-on in 2026:

A backdoor for the good guys simply does not exist. Once you build it, hackers walk through, authoritarian governments walk through, and the rest follows.

The UK is pressuring for chat control right now. EU Chat Control initiatives keep popping up. We need to keep saying NO to this!

#encryption #privacy #ChatControl #DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #opensource #democracy #freedom #digital #tech

Alex Crosby 5d ago

Electronic Frontier Foundation 5d ago

Companies that build mass surveillance tools—like Amazon and Google with the Nimbus technologies they have sold to Israel—risk complicity in human rights abuses, and the public is watching. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/microsoft-took-step-toward-human-rights-accountability-google-and-amazon-and

Microsoft Took a Step Toward Human Rights Accountability. Google and Amazon (and Others) Should Pay Attention!

For years, civil society organizations, workers, journalists, and human rights experts have warned that major technology companies risk enabling grave human rights abuses when they provide cloud computing, AI, and surveillance infrastructure to governments implicated in violations of international...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Alex Crosby 6d ago

Electronic Frontier Foundation May 20

When security agencies harm rights in the name of "protection," they become the threat. Civil society, legal community, activists, oversight bodies: we must ramp up the fight against normalized surveillance abuses. EFF’s new guide is here to help. Join us. https://eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/we-must-not-normalize-digital-surveillance-abuses-effs-new-guide-underlines

We Must Not Normalize Digital Surveillance Abuses. EFF’s New Guide Underlines Concrete Steps to Fight Back.

Poor accountability, feeble control mechanisms, and insufficient legal frameworks have led to systematic human rights violations in the Americas, with no consistent remedy or reparation to victims. What's needed is to materialize essential guarantees and measures to combat repeated surveillance...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Alex Crosby May 20

knoppix May 20

Bitwarden replaced its CEO and CFO without announcements, raising scrutiny around governance at a widely used open-source password manager. 🔐
Bitwarden briefly removed “Always Free” and rewrote GRIT values, fueling concerns over transparency and long-term user control. 👀

🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/bitwarden-quiet-changes/

#TechNews #Bitwarden #OpenSource #PasswordManager #Privacy #FOSS #Cybersecurity #Security #Encryption #Transparency #SelfHosting #Linux #DataProtection #Infosec #DigitalRights #Password