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Put down the razor (and gather your EFF donations). The @defcon Beard and Mustache Contest is back this Saturday at 10 am. Clean-shaven people welcome.
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Have you registered for this year's Benefit Poker Tournament at #defcon? Join us at the Planet Hollywood Poker Room this Friday at high noon! Register *now*
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The EFF Benefit Poker Tournament is back for DEF CON 33! Your buy-in is paired with a donation to support EFF’s mission to protect online privacy and free expression for all. Play for glory. Play for
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Tech journalist/critic @KaraSwisher explains why it’s so important that tech workers speak out individually and create companies that elevate best practices, on the new episode of EFF’s “How to Fix the Internet.”
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Many of the internet’s thorniest problems can be attributed to the concentration of power in a few corporate hands: the surveillance capitalism that makes it profitable to invade our privacy, the
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Amazon Ring se beneficia del autoritarismo tecnolĂłgico y la vigilancia masiva. AsĂ es como su modelo de negocio pone en riesgo tu privacidad. #SurveillanceCapitalism
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El fundador de Ring, Jamie Siminoff, ha vuelto a ponerse al frente de la empresa de videoporteros de vigilancia, y con él ha regresado el enfoque de «la vigilancia ante todo, la privacidad después»
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When your video channel is removed, is it because of a person, a robot, or the law?
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Want to fight for digital rights in your local school or community, but not sure how? Our Electronic Frontier Alliance toolkits can help you get started.
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The Electronic Frontier Alliance (EFA) is a grassroots network made up of independent community organizations. Allies across the United States work to support digital rights and empower their local...
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Yes, VPNs can help you get around certain types of geographic restrictions, but it’s very important you do your due diligence before downloading one.
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VPN stands for “Virtual Private Network.” When you connect to a VPN, all data that you send (such as the requests to servers when browsing the web) appears to originate from the VPN itself, rather...
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EFF has filed an amicus brief asking the Third Circuit to clarify that this case is about violations to policy, not hacking.
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The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) is supposed to be about attacks on computer systems. It is not, as a federal district court suggested in Ryanair v. Booking.com, applicable when someone uses
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SabĂas que algunos paĂses exigen hacer tus redes sociales pĂşblicas para obtener una visa? Esto es un ataque a la privacidad y aquĂ te explicamos por quĂ©. #LibertadDigital #Privacidad
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La administración Trump continúa con su peligrosa campaña para vigilar y reprimir la actividad de los estudiantes extranjeros en las redes sociales. El Departamento de Estado anunció recientemente un
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Zero‑Knowledge Proofs let users prove they are over 18 without exact birth dates, but they don’t stop verifiers from collecting information like your IP address. These alone aren’t enough to protect privacy and shouldn’t be pushed forward without proper protections in place.
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Canadá abre las puertas a la vigilancia masiva de EE.UU. con el Bill C-2. Qué significa y cómo afecta tu privacidad. #Vigilancia #PrivacidadDigital
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El gobierno canadiense se está preparando para entregar la vida digital de los canadienses a la policĂa estadounidense, a la administraciĂłn de Donald Trump y, posiblemente, a agencias de espionaje
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Why does content disappear from YouTube? EFF’s Katharine Trendacosta and David Greene explain why to Letterhack.
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See how EFA member TechEd Collab is building community in Arizona around tech awareness.
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Earlier this year, EFF welcomed Technology Education Collaborative (TEC) into the Electronic Frontier Alliance (EFA). TEC empowers everyday people to become informed users of today's extraordinary
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Logging into a public website with valid credentials, even if you scrape the data once you’re logged in, is not computer hacking.
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The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) is supposed to be about attacks on computer systems. It is not, as a federal district court suggested in Ryanair v. Booking.com, applicable when someone uses
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Tu medidor de luz podrĂa ser la prĂłxima herramienta de vigilancia masiva. CĂłmo los gobiernos y empresas rastrean más de lo que imaginas. #Vigilancia #DatosPersonales
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Sacramento’s power company and law enforcement agencies have been running an illegal mass surveillance scheme for years, using our power meters as home-mounted spies. The Electronic Frontier
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The Florida AG is now fishing for personal data about everyone who attended or performed at a Pride drag show. This should set off every civil liberties alarm bell we have.
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EFF has long warned about this kind of mission creep: where a law or policy supposedly aimed at public safety is turned into a tool for political retaliation or mass surveillance. Going to a drag
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Dating apps often simplify connections—but consent is anything but simple. These platforms must not sidestep user rights when building and powering their AI tools. Consent must be provided by design and not through nagging pop-ups or bundled terms.
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Staying safe whilst dating online should not be the responsibility of users—dating apps should be prioritizing our privacy by default, and laws should require companies to prioritize user privacy
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Dead & Co are playing for free in SF this weekend, so now is as good a time as any to revisit the contributions of Deadheads to the early development of the internet:
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Before the internet took over the world, psychedelic rock band The Grateful Dead were among the first – and most influential – forces at the dawn of online communication.
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The more pressure platforms and websites face to age-gate services, the more radically it could change people's relationships with the internet, EFF’s David Greene told @arstechnica.
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Any YouTuber wrongly labeled a teen must provide an ID, credit card, or selfie.
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“We’re seeing that regardless of where you implement these laws and these measures, users are still frustrated,” EFF's @CollingsPaige told @Politico.
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