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• Ambulance Rides Still Aren’t Protected From Surprise Billing — and Subscriptions Do Little to Help

  By theintercept on August 8, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  When the EMS arrived at Bobbie Joseph’s home last December, an ambulance bill was the least of her worries. The 83-year-old was suffering from a flare-up of a painful chronic nerve condition called trigeminal neuralgia, which made it difficult to… Read More ›

• Why Is the UAE Detaining an American Lawyer Who Worked With Jamal Khashoggi?

  By theintercept on August 7, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Since the American lawyer Asim Ghafoor was arrested in July while trying to make a connecting flight in the United Arab Emirates, his supporters in Washington, D.C., have been speculating as to exactly why. Emirati authorities detained Ghafoor on accusations… Read More ›

• Should Doctors Break the Law?

  By theintercept on August 6, 2022 • ( 0 )

  The horrific stories are pouring in. A Texas woman’s water breaks at 18 weeks, leaving the fetus’s chance of survival “as close to zero as you’ll ever get in medicine,” according to one expert. Yet she must wait until she is hemorrhaging… Read More ›

• Victory! Federal Court Upholds First Amendment Protections for Student’s Off-Campus Social Media Post

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on August 5, 2022 • ( 0 )

  EFF intern Emma Plankey contributed to this blog post. Students should not have to fear expulsion for expressing themselves on social media after school and off-campus, but that is just what happened to the plaintiff in C1.G v. Siegfried. Last month,… Read More ›

• The UK Online Safety Bill Attacks Free Speech and Encryption

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on August 5, 2022 • ( 0 )

  The UK government has had more than a year to revise its Online Safety Bill into a proposal that wouldn’t harm users’ basic rights. It has failed to do so, and the bill should be scrapped. The current bill is… Read More ›

• FTX-Backed PACs Expand the Crypto Lobby in Congress

  By theintercept on August 5, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  As recent fluctuations in the cryptocurrency market have sent the industry’s major companies spiraling into bankruptcy, FTX owner Sam Bankman-Fried has emerged as something of a bailout king. The crypto exchange he runs has been buying up smaller companies, turning… Read More ›

• Progressives on U.S.-China Policy and Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit

  By theintercept on August 3, 2022 • ( 0 )

  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed in Taiwan on Tuesday, ending speculation about whether she would visit the island during her tour of east Asia. Political reactions in the U.S. have been divided, particularly among progressives. Tobita Chow of Justice is… Read More ›

• Arti 0.6.0 is released: bugfixes, error improvements, and preparation.

  By torblog on August 2, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Arti is our ongoing project to create a working embeddable Tor client in Rust. It’s not ready to replace the main Tor implementation in C, but we believe that it’s the future. Right now, our focus is on making Arti… Read More ›

• Help Smash Tor Bugs!

  By torblog on July 31, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Smashing Tor Bugs in 2022 Last year, your support of the Bug Smash Fund helped us solve 241 tickets related to Tor bugs and maintenance. From smashing bugs related to anti-censorship features for censored users, resolving issues in Tor Browser,… Read More ›

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