Victims of human rights abuses enabled by powerful surveillance technologies must be able to seek redress through U.S. courts against both foreign and domestic corporations, we told the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/eff-ninth-circuit-dont-shield-foreign-spyware-company-human-rights-accountability
Google abandons its promise to block third-party cookies in Chrome, leaving billions vulnerable to online surveillance. We need strong privacy legislation to fight back. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/google-breaks-promise-block-third-party-cookies
Google abandons its promise to block third-party cookies in Chrome, leaving billions vulnerable to online surveillance. We need strong privacy legislation to fight back. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/google-breaks-promise-block-third-party-cookies
#chrome #privacy
What's Certbot? It's EFF's free, open source tool for automatically using Let’s Encrypt certificates on millions of domains across the web. It's also part of a growing number of EFF technology projects designed to protect your freedom online. Help support this work today! https://eff.org/support-certbot
Digital spaces enable LGBTQ+ people to engage with their gender and sexual orientation, but it can be daunting to give up any kind of privacy online while doing so. Here's a guide to protecting your identities online, from using a VPN to obscuring faces.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/beyond-pride-month-protecting-digital-identities-lgbtq-people
Still on X? Without notice, X has opted all users into training its "Grok" AI Model. To turn off this setting and stop your "posts, interactions, inputs, and results" from being used for training and fine-tuning Grok, visit https://x.com/settings/grok_settings and uncheck the checkbox.
Google no longer intends to drop support for third-party cookies in Chrome. "This is an extremely disappointing decision that really just highlights Google's commitment to their own profits over users' privacy," EFF’s Lena Cohen told nostr:npub1p4kx439znnv7pejldzr3zs4dxusjcu6n6r4vkr40rwxcrl8hp77qy9wfhv. https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/23/google_cookies_third_party_continue/
Instead of a handful of platforms trying to control your life online, people are reclaiming control by building more open and empowering approaches to social media. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/whats-difference-between-mastodon-bluesky-and-threads
A new approach to social media is emerging, so we broke down what we’re seeing so you can get involved. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/whats-difference-between-mastodon-bluesky-and-threads
It’s still early for ActivityPub and AT Protocol, but we broke down some current differences and what directions they might go in.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/whats-difference-between-mastodon-bluesky-and-threads
#fediverse #bluesky #interoperability
Thanks to new records spotted by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, we now know more about the current generation of cell-site simulators being used by law enforcement. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/next-generation-cell-site-simulators-here-heres-what-we-know
Facing a government-mandated click-through agreement before you can engage in basic internet use sounds like a dystopian novel. But it's an actual proposal before the EU Council. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/eu-council-presidents-last-ditch-effort-mass-scanning-must-be-rejected
Set it and forget it.
Start an annual or monthly recurring donation to EFF to show your support for free speech and privacy online. https://supporters.eff.org/donate/fight-surveillance-and-protect-free-speech--S
Protecting your electronic devices and digital assets before, during, and after a protest is vital to keeping yourself and your information safe, as well as getting your message out. Learn more:
If you change one setting in WhatsApp, it should be to enable end-to-end encrypted backups. https://ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-use-whatsapp#enable-end-to-end-encryption-on-backups
Net neutrality means that ISPs don’t get to speed up or slow down your web traffic based on what site you’re visiting. The FCC understood this in 2015, yet left the door open for the creation of fast lanes in their new rules. Tell them to fix this mistake. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/fcc-must-clarify-its-rules-prevent-loopholes-will-swallow-net-neutrality-whole
Have you set up a username on Signal yet? https://ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-use-signal#set-or-change-your-username
We need your help! Call your senators and tell them to vote NO on reauthorizing and expanding Section 702. https://eff.org/risaa
For our latest Speaking Freely interview, we spoke with the Executive Director of FORUM-Asia, longtime human rights advocate Mary-Aileen Diez Balasco. Read her interview, and the entire Speaking Freely series, here: https://www.eff.org/speaking-freely
MPs in Ghana have passed a draconian bill that will criminalize LGBTQ+ people, stifle free speech, and incite discrimination. EFF and 34 civil society organizations wrote to President Nana Akufo-Addo urging that he reject the bill. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/eff-and-34-civil-society-organizations-call-ghanas-president-reject-anti-lgbtq #ghana #lgbtq #freespeech