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• ShadowDragon: Inside the Social Media Surveillance Software That Can Watch Your Every Move

  By theintercept on September 21, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  A Michigan State Police contract, obtained by The Intercept, sheds new light on the growing use of little-known surveillance software that helps law enforcement agencies and corporations watch people’s social media and other website activity. The software, put out by… Read More ›

• HTTPS Is Actually Everywhere

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on September 21, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  For more than 10 years, EFF’s HTTPS Everywhere browser extension has provided a much-needed service to users: encrypting their browser communications with websites and making sure they benefit from the protection of HTTPS wherever possible. Since we started offering HTTPS… Read More ›

• Why EFF Flew a Plane Over Apple's Headquarters

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on September 21, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  For the last month, civil liberties and human rights organizations, researchers, and customers have demanded that Apple cancel its plan to install photo-scanning software onto devices. This software poses an enormous danger to privacy and security. Apple has heard the… Read More ›

• V3 onion services usage

  By torblog on September 21, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  V3 onion services usage Gus September 21, 2021 Guest post by Tobias Höller With the deprecation of V2 onion services right around the corner, it is a good time to talk about V3 onion services. This post will discuss the… Read More ›

• New Alpha Release: Tor 0.4.7.1-alpha

  By torblog on September 17, 2021 • ( 0 )

  New Alpha Release: Tor 0.4.7.1-alpha ahf September 17, 2021 There’s a new alpha release available for download. If you build Tor from source, you can download the source code for 0.4.7.1-alpha from the download page on the website. Packages should… Read More ›

• How California’s Broadband Infrastructure Law Promotes Local Choice

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on September 17, 2021 • ( 0 )

  The legislative session has ended and Governor Newsom is expected to sign into law S.B. 4 and A.B. 14. These bills stand as the final pieces of the state’s new broadband infrastructure program. With a now-estimated $7.5 billion assembled between… Read More ›

• Oil Company Official Overseeing Crackdown on Pipeline Resistance Cut Teeth at Amazon and Exxon

  By theintercept on September 17, 2021 • ( 0 )

  The head of security for the oil transport company Enbridge built his résumé managing Exxon Mobil’s response to community protests in Nigeria and helping oversee Amazon’s Global Security Operations Center, a division that has monitored environmental groups and union organizers…. Read More ›

• No, Tech Monopolies Don’t Serve National Security

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on September 16, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  In what appears to be a “throw spaghetti on the wall approach” to stopping antitrust reform targeting Big Tech, a few Members of Congress and a range of former military and intelligence officials wrote a letter asserting that these companies… Read More ›

• What’s Up with WhatsApp Encrypted Backups

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on September 16, 2021 • ( 0 )

  WhatsApp is rolling out an option for users to encrypt their message backups, and that is a big win for user privacy and security. The new feature is expected to be available for both iOS and Android “in the coming… Read More ›

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