Mastodawn

Section 702 should not be reauthorized without additional safeguards or oversights. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/congress-dropping-ball-clean-extension-fisa

Congress Is Dropping the Ball with a Clean Extension of FISA

Two years ago, Congress passed the “Reforming Intelligence and Securing America” Act (RISAA) that included nominal reforms to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The bill unfortunately included some problematic expansions of the law—but it also included a relatively big...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

James.notoknow 2d ago

#HumanityFirst Not lining pockets of Predators.

James.notoknow 2d ago

#MindoverMatter

James.notoknow Mar 22, 2025

jwz Mar 21, 2025

Reminder: Cloudflare is a Nazi company and under no circumstances do you "have to hand it to them".

James.notoknow Mar 21, 2025

Electronic Frontier Foundation Mar 14, 2025

In early 2006, Mark Klein walked into EFF’s office asking “Do you folks care about privacy?” We do. The documents he provided helped inform our class-action suit, known as Hepting v. AT&T, which made national news. https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/03/13/mark-klein-dead/

Mark Klein, AT&T technician who helped expose NSA spying, dies at 79

In 2006, he shared corporate documents showing how the National Security Agency was accessing internet data through a secret room in an AT&T office building.

The Washington Post

James.notoknow Mar 21, 2025

Electronic Frontier Foundation Mar 14, 2025

After a three-month trial, the Anchorage Police Department has decided to discontinue using Axon’s AI-generated police report technology because of a lack of time savings. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/anchorage-police-department-ai-generated-police-reports-dont-save-time

Anchorage Police Department: AI-Generated Police Reports Don’t Save Time

The Anchorage Police Department (APD) has concluded its three-month trial of Axon’s Draft One, an AI system that uses audio from body-worn cameras to write narrative police reports for officers—and has decided not to retain the technology. Axon touts this technology as “force multiplying,” claiming...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

James.notoknow Mar 21, 2025

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Electronic Frontier Foundation Mar 14, 2025

Your ability to explore the world freely and privately has never been more important. Isabela Bagueros defends for your rights to privacy, free speech, and anonymity as Executive Director of the Tor Project and as a longtime advocate for the open source community. #womenshistorymonth

James.notoknow Mar 21, 2025

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Electronic Frontier Foundation Mar 16, 2025

Chelsea E. Manning is a network security expert, whistleblower, and former U.S. Army intelligence analyst whose disclosure of classified Iraq war documents exposed human rights abuses and corruption the government kept hidden from the public. #womenshistorymonth

James.notoknow Mar 21, 2025

Electronic Frontier Foundation Mar 17, 2025

“You don’t know what information a data broker has on you, who they’re selling it to, and what the people who buy your data are doing with it,” EFF’s Lena Cohen told @Gizmodo. “There’s a real power/knowledge asymmetry.” https://gizmodo.com/data-broker-brags-about-having-highly-detailed-personal-information-on-nearly-all-internet-users-2000575762

Data Broker Brags About Having Highly Detailed Personal Information on Nearly All Internet Users

The advertising industry is immensely powerful, and disturbingly opaque.

Gizmodo