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• EFF Sues U.S. Postal Service For Records About Covert Social Media Spying Program

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on July 27, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Service Looked Through People’s Posts Prior to Street Protests Washington D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service and its inspection agency seeking records about a covert program to secretly… Read More ›

• Help Tor Smash Bugs: August 1-31!

  By torblog on July 27, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Help Tor Smash Bugs: August 1-31! Al Smith July 27, 2021 The Bug Smash Fund is back for its third year! In 2019, we launched Tor’s Bug Smash Fund to raise money that would support our developers finding and fixing… Read More ›

• “Meant to Intimidate”: Months After Police Raids, Kashmir Human Rights Groups Remain Dormant

  By theintercept on July 26, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  SRINAGAR — On the morning of October 28, 2020, rights activist Parveena Ahanger was startled by the sound of revving engines outside her home in Srinagar, the biggest city in Indian-administered Kashmir. She closed the Quran she was reading from and… Read More ›

• Facing Years in Prison for Drone Leak, Daniel Hale Makes His Case Against U.S. Assassination Program

  By theintercept on July 24, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  The missiles that killed Salim bin Ahmed Ali Jaber and Walid bin Ali Jaber came in the night. Salim was a respected imam in the village of Khashamir, in southeastern Yemen, who had made a name for himself denouncing the… Read More ›

• EFF, ACLU Urge Appeals Court to Revive Challenge to Los Angeles’ Collection of Scooter Location Data

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on July 23, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Lower Court Improperly Dismissed Lawsuit Against Privacy-Invasive Data Collection Practice San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ACLU of Northern and Southern California today asked a federal appeals court to reinstate a lawsuit they filed on behalf of electric scooter… Read More ›

• Data Brokers are the Problem

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on July 23, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Why should you care about data brokers? Reporting this week about a Substack publication outing a priest with location data from Grindr shows once again how easy it is for anyone to take advantage of data brokers’ stores to cause… Read More ›

• Stuck in the Smoke as Billionaires Blast Off

  By theintercept on July 23, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Many people here think they are safe from climate change, the journalist from a German newspaper explained to me. They don’t see it as an immediate threat, like Covid-19. They see the Greens as scolds who want to take away… Read More ›

• “We Knew Who Was Going to Die”: Warnings About Lower-Income Heat Risk Went Unheeded

  By theintercept on July 23, 2021 • ( 0 )

  In the wake of an extreme heat event in the Pacific Northwest that killed at least 200 people, a scientist testified before Congress that the deaths could have been prevented. “Those who died lacked access to financial capital, social networks,… Read More ›

• The Coup That Wasn't

  By theintercept on July 23, 2021 • ( 0 )

    The assassination earlier this month of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is raising new questions about the threat posed by international mercenaries. It also casts a new light on a story The Intercept published last month that revealed the existence… Read More ›

• Council of Europe’s Actions Belie its Pledges to Involve Civil Society in Development of Cross Border Police Powers Treaty

  By electronicfrontierfoundation on July 22, 2021 • ( 0 )

  As the Council of Europe’s flawed cross border surveillance treaty moves through its final phases of approval, time is running out to ensure cross-border investigations occur with robust privacy and human rights safeguards in place. The innocuously named “Second Additional… Read More ›

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