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• Google-Fitbit Merger Would Cement Google’s Data Empire

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on April 7, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Google buying another tech company isn’t new.  But Google’s proposed acquisition of Fitbit poses an extraordinary threat to competition and user privacy.  Users face having their Fitbit information added to Google’s already large and invasive data pool, and a world… Read More ›

• New Release: Tails 4.5

  By torblog on April 7, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  New Release: Tails 4.5 Tails April 07, 2020 The Tails team is happy to publish Tails 4.5, the first version of Tails to support Secure Boot. This release also fixes many security vulnerabilities. You should upgrade as soon as possible. New… Read More ›

• Facebook Tech Support Contractors Sent Into Work Question “Essential” Designation

  By theintercept on April 7, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Facebook information technology contractors have been told their physical presence is required to set up laptops for new hires and other remote employees, and have been given letters to carry on their commutes stating that they are helping to provide… Read More ›

• How to Protect Privacy When Aggregating Location Data to Fight COVID-19

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on April 6, 2020 • ( 0 )

  As governments, the private sector, NGOs, and others mobilize to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve seen calls to use location information—typically drawn from GPS and cell tower data—to inform public health efforts. Among the proposed uses of location data, one… Read More ›

• California Legislator Introduces Fiber Broadband for All Bill

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on April 6, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Senator Lena Gonzalez has introduced legislation (SB 1130), which would allow the California state government to actively promote the transition of the state’s legacy communications infrastructure into a multi-gigabit fiber network that is competitive, affordable, and available to all residents… Read More ›

• Misinformation Hampered Ebola Response. The Same Thing Could Happen With Coronavirus.

  By theintercept on April 6, 2020 • ( 0 )

  In late March, as cases of Covid-19 sped toward 1 million worldwide and deaths approached 50,000, the Democratic Republic of Congo quietly achieved a public health milestone: Forty days with no new cases of Ebola. Few noted that victory, but it holds… Read More ›

• April 6 Coronavirus Global News Roundup

  By democracynow on April 6, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Coronavirus Cases Surge in U.S., Surgeon General Warns of “Pearl Harbor Moment” The global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has topped 70,000 with over 1.3 million confirmed cases. The U.S. has by far the highest number of known cases,… Read More ›

• Untested Covid Treatment Trump Talks Up Can Have Fatal Side Effect, Cardiologists Warn

  By theintercept on April 6, 2020 • ( 0 )

  An experimental treatment for Covid-19 championed by President Donald Trump — in which patients are given doses of hydroxychloroquine, a drug used to treat malaria and lupus, along with the antibiotic azithromycin — raises the risk for some patients of… Read More ›

• FBI Opened Terrorism Investigations Into Nonviolent Palestinian Solidarity Group, Documents Reveal

  By theintercept on April 5, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  In 2006, St. Louis-based activist and academic Mark Chmiel received a message on his answering machine from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI wanted to talk to Chmiel about trip three years ago that he and other St. Louis… Read More ›

• How EFF Evaluates Government Demands for New Surveillance Powers

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on April 3, 2020 • ( 0 )

  The COVID-19 public health crisis has no precedent in living memory. But government demands for new high-tech surveillance powers are all too familiar. This includes well-meaning proposals to use various forms of data about disease transmission among people. Even in… Read More ›

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