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• Study of Electronic Monitoring Smartphone Apps Confirms Advocates’ Concerns of Privacy Harms

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on September 23, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Researchers at the University of Washington and Harvard Law School recently published a groundbreaking study analyzing the technical capabilities of 16 electronic monitoring (EM) smartphone apps used as “alternatives” to criminal and civil detention. The study, billed as the “first… Read More ›

• Is Crypto a Big Scam?

  By theintercept on September 23, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Last week, the White House released a proposed framework for the regulation of cryptocurrency. The document gives the green light to regulators to continue crafting rules around the industry, and even explores the creation of a “CBDC”: a central bank… Read More ›

• San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors Grants Police More Surveillance Powers

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on September 22, 2022 • ( 0 )

  In a 4-7 vote, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors passed a 15-month pilot program granting the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) more live surveillance powers. This was despite the objections of a diverse coalition of community groups and civil rights… Read More ›

• Lawsuit: SMUD and Sacramento Police Violate State Law and Utility Customers’ Privacy by Sharing Data Without a Warrant

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on September 22, 2022 • ( 0 )

  The public power utility and police racially profiled Asian communities in the illegal data-sharing scheme. SACRAMENTO—The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) searches entire zip codes’ worth of people’s private data and discloses it to police without a warrant or any… Read More ›

• Facebook Report Concludes Company Censorship Violated Palestinian Human Rights

  By theintercept on September 21, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Facebook and Instagram’s speech policies harmed fundamental human rights of Palestinian users during a conflagration that saw heavy Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip last May, according to a study commissioned by the social media sites’ parent company Meta. “Meta’s… Read More ›

• How to Ditch Facebook Without Losing Your Friends (Or Family, Customers or Communities)

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on September 19, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Today, we launch “How to Ditch Facebook Without Losing Your Friends” – a narrated slideshow and essay explaining how Facebook locks in its users, how interoperability can free them, and what it would feel like to use an “interoperable Facebook”… Read More ›

• Detroit Cops Want $7 Million in Covid Relief Money for Surveillance Microphones

  By theintercept on September 17, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Detroit’s city council will soon vote on whether to spend millions in federal cash meant to ease the economic pains of the coronavirus pandemic on ShotSpotter, a controversial surveillance technology critics say is invasive, discriminatory, and fundamentally broken. ShotSpotter purports… Read More ›

• Giving Big Corporations “Closed Generic” Top-Level Domain Names to Run as Private Kingdoms Is Still a Bad Idea

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on September 16, 2022 • ( 0 )

  No business can own the generic word for the product it sells. We would find it preposterous if a single airline claimed exclusive use of the word “air,” or a broadband service tried to stop its rivals from using the… Read More ›

• Fossil Fuel Industry Seeks to Expand Free Speech for Corporations and Limit It for Citizens

  By theintercept on September 16, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Reps. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Katie Porter, D-Calif., probably didn’t plan for their committee hearings to run at the exact same time this week, but the hearings sure were talking to each other. In her Committee on Natural Resources hearing,… Read More ›

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