Around the globe, freedom of expression (or free speech) varies wildly in definition, scope, and level of access. The impact of the digital age on perceptions and censorship of speech has been felt across the political spectrum on a worldwide… Read More ›
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Speaking Freely: An Interview With Rima Sghaier
Around the globe, freedom of expression (or free speech) varies wildly in definition, scope, and level of access. The impact of the digital age on perceptions and censorship of speech has been felt across the political spectrum on a worldwide… Read More ›
Mint: Late-Stage Adversarial Interoperability Demonstrates What We Had (And What We Lost)
In 2006, Aaron Patzer founded Mint. Patzer had grown up in the city of Evansville, Indiana—a place he described as “small, without much economic opportunity”—but had created a successful business building websites. He kept up the business through college and… Read More ›
Five Senators Join the Fight to Learn Just How Bad Ring Really Is
Amid months of damaging investigative reporting and pressure by advocacy groups like EFF, senators are finally joining the fight to learn just how invasive and harmful Amazon’s Ring cameras are to the privacy of people in their vicinity. In September,… Read More ›
The Intelligence Community Took Months to Respond to a Key Question About Section 215, And It Still Doesn’t Have Any “Legal Conclusion”
Even with the looming expiration of Section 215 and other key provisions of the Patriot Act, it took the Intelligence Community almost four months to respond to a letter written by Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) seeking clarification on how the… Read More ›
alt.interoperability.adversarial
Today, we are told that the bigness of Big Tech giants was inevitable: the result of “network effects.” For example, once everyone you want to talk to is on Facebook, you can’t be convinced to use another, superior service, because… Read More ›
With a Raid on Javier Smaldone, Argentinian Authorities Have Restarted Their Harassment of E-Voting Critics
Javier Smaldone is a well-known figure in the Argentinian infosec community. As a security researcher, he’s worked to highlight the flaws in electronic voting in Argentina, despite the country’s local and federal attempts to move ahead with insecure software and… Read More ›
Virtual(ly) Private Network: NordVPN’s Breach and the Limitations of VPNs
UPDATE (11/8/2019): We have clarified that the NordVPN user credentials impacted were not in result of this breach. The popular VPN provider, NordVPN, recently announced a server breach at a third-party data center. NordVPN reassured users that its key services… Read More ›
Affordances: Science Fiction About Algorithmic Bias and Technological Resistance
Future Tense Fiction, a joint project of ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination and Slate, has just published Affordances, a new science fiction story by EFF Special Advisor Cory Doctorow. It’s a tale of algorithmic bias, facial recognition, and… Read More ›
Private Companies, Government Surveillance Software and Human Rights
It’s old news that governments around the world are misusing private company-sold digital surveillance software track and target people for human rights abuses. Recently, Amnesty International reported finding that two prominent Moroccan human rights defenders had been targeted using Israeli-based… Read More ›