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• Why You Can’t Sue Your Broadband Monopoly

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on March 5, 2021 • ( 0 )

  EFF Legal Fellow Josh Srago co-wrote this blog post The relationship between the federal judiciary and the executive agencies is a complex one. While Congress makes the laws, they can grant the agencies rulemaking authority to interpret the law. So… Read More ›

• More Than $1 Trillion of the Pandemic Relief Bill Is Flying Under the Radar

  By theintercept on March 5, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Only the Democratic Party can put together a $1.9 trillion relief package and manage to get on the wrong side of public opinion for being too cheap. Yet that’s where we’ve arrived after two months of debating the party’s stimulus,… Read More ›

• New Release: Tor Browser 10.0.13 (Linux Only)

  By torblog on March 3, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  New Release: Tor Browser 10.0.13 (Linux Only) sysrqb March 03, 2021 Tor Browser 10.0.13 for Linux is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory. This version fixes instability on some Linux distributions. The… Read More ›

• Verizon’s NFL Covid-19 Screening Cameras Are Based on Bad Science and Questionable Chinese Hardware

  By theintercept on March 3, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Technology companies have spent the past year in a manic sprint to reimagine (or at least re-market) their wares as coronavirus response tools, with often less than stellar results. Next up is telecom mammoth Verizon, whose latest initiative cashes in… Read More ›

• Drug Lobby Asks Biden to Punish Foreign Countries Pushing for Low-Cost Vaccines

  By theintercept on March 3, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  President Joe Biden’s administration is being asked to punish Hungary, Colombia, Chile, and other countries for seeking to ramp up the production of Covid-19 vaccines and therapeutics without express permission from pharmaceutical companies. The sanctions are being urged by the drug industry,… Read More ›

• Donald Trump’s Gab Account Uses an Email Address Belonging to the Extremist Platform’s CEO

  By theintercept on March 3, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Gab, the far-right social network that’s known as a safe space for hate speech, QAnon believers, Trump election fraud conspiracists, and white supremacist terrorists, was hacked pretty badly. The site exploded in popularity after the January 6 insurrection when Amazon… Read More ›

• Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on March 3, 2021 • ( 0 )

  The third-party cookie is dying, and Google is trying to create its replacement.  No one should mourn the death of the cookie as we know it. For more than two decades, the third-party cookie has been the lynchpin in a… Read More ›

• The Life and Death of an Anti-Fascist

  By theintercept on March 3, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Few anti-fascists were as influential on Portland’s recent protest scene as Sean Kealiher. He rarely missed a protest, and he would have been front and center last summer when the insurrectionary activism he had long advocated for became a staple… Read More ›

• The Justice in Policing Act Does Not Do Enough to Rein in Body-Worn Cameras

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on March 2, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Reformers often tout police use of body-worn cameras (BWCs) as a way to prevent law enforcement misconduct. But, far too often, this technology becomes one more tool in a toolbox already overflowing with surveillance technology that spies on civilians. Worse,… Read More ›

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