Kids are often the involuntary early adopters of controlling, abusive technology, whether that’s spying school laptops, location tracking phones apps, or teenager-repelling buzzers that emit tones that adult ears can’t hear. If you want to see your future, look at… Read More ›
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Catalog of Missing Devices: Artificial Pancreas Triptych 1, SugarSafe
As we move from having computers in our pockets to computers on our skin to computers inside our body, whether we use computers becomes less voluntary, and who gets to control those computers gets more critical. visit original source at… Read More ›
Mashup Maker: another entry for the Catalog of Missing Devices from an EFF supporter
EFF supporter Benjamin McLean was kind enough to send along his “Mashup Maker” as a new entry to our Catalog of Missing Devices, a tour through some of the legitimate, useful and missing gadgets, tools and services that don’t exist… Read More ›
Catalog of Missing Devices: Fonts on e-readers
In today’s world, your ability to choose something as everyday as a typeface depends on the permission of the company that made your device and the software that runs on it. Choosing your typeface may seem like a novelty, but… Read More ›
Entries for the Catalog of Missing Devices, courtesy of EFF supporters like you
The Catalog of Missing Devices is a tour through some of the legitimate, useful and missing gadgets, tools and services that don’t exist but should. They’re technologies whose chance to exist was snuffed out by Section 1201 of the Digital… Read More ›
To do in LA, April 24: come hear EFF and friends on the Right to Repair, freedom to tinker and the right to know
A law intended to stop people from making off-brand DVD players now means that security researchers can’t warn you about dangers from the cameras in your bedroom; that mechanics can’t fix your car; and that your printer won’t take third… Read More ›
Data Privacy Policy Must Empower Users and Innovation
As the details continue to emerge regarding Facebook’s failure to protect its users’ data from third-party misuse, a growing chorus is calling for new regulations. Mark Zuckerberg will appear in Washington to answer to Congress next week, and we expect… Read More ›
Catalog of Missing Devices: Ad Free Youtube Kids
Since the invention of the remote control, rightsholders and audience have fought a war over ads. The market for tools to skip, mask or mute ads holds publishers and marketers to account: they know that if their ads get too… Read More ›
Catalog of Missing Devices: Meme-Making DVR
The Supreme Court says that copyright requires “escape valves” like fair use to comply with the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of expression. Fair use — and its non-US cousin, Fair Dealing — allows people to make new works from… Read More ›
Catalog of Missing Devices: Physics Barbie
Savvy parents know that every cloud-connected electronic gadget they buy for their kids is a potential hole in their network, a sneaky listening device that hangs around some of the most sensitive and personal moments of you kids’ lives and… Read More ›