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The Internet Still Works: Reddit Empowers Community Moderation
2+ hour, 49+ min ago (1178+ words) Joe Mullin: When we talk about user rights and Section 230, what rights are most at stake on a platform like Reddit?" Ben Lee: Reddit, we often say, is the most human place on the internet. What's often missing from the…...
How Push Notifications Can Betray Your Privacy (and What to Do About It)
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (303+ words) Then, once the notifications land on your phone, depending on your settings, the notification content may be visible on your lock screen without needing to unlock the device. This can be dangerous if you lose your device, someone steals it,…...
EU Parliament Blocks Mass-Scanning of Our Chats'What's Next?
1+ week, 6+ day ago (816+ words) The EU's so-called Chat Control plan, which would mandate mass scanning and other encryption breaking measures, has had some good news lately. The most controversial idea, the forced requirement to scan encrypted messages, was given up by EU member states....
Triple Header for Privacy's Defender in New York
2+ week, 3+ day ago (289+ words) You're invited on a journey inside the privacy battles that shaped the internet. EFF's Executive Director Cindy Cohn has tangled with the feds, fought for your data security, and argued before judges to protect our access to science and knowledge…...
Supreme Court Agrees With EFF: ISPs Don't Have To Be Copyright Enforcers
3+ week, 4+ day ago (274+ words) Last fall, EFF filed an amicus brief urging the U. S. Supreme Court to reject an expansive theory of secondary copyright liability that threatened to impose massive damages on internet service providers and other technology companies simply for offering widely used services....
Bonus Podcast Episode: Privacy's Defender - Cindy Cohn with Cory Doctorow
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (327+ words) Electronic Frontier Foundation Bonus Podcast Episode: Privacy's Defender - Cindy Cohn with Cory Doctorow While How to Fix the Internet is on hiatus, we wanted to share a great conversation with you from last week. EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn spoke…...
Blocking the Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web's Historical Record
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (180+ words) Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper." But in recent months The New York Times began blocking the Archive"from crawling its website, using technical measures that go beyond the…...
Certbot and Let's Encrypt Now Support IP Address Certificates
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (149+ words) If you want to try getting an IP address certificate using Certbot, install version 5. 4 or higher (for webroot support with IP addresses), and run this command: Two things of note: As of right now, Certbot only supports getting IP address…...
A. B. 1043s Internet Age Gates Hurt Everyone
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1051+ words) Electronic Frontier Foundation A. B. 1043s Internet Age Gates Hurt Everyone EFF has long warned against age-gating the internet. Such mandates strike at the foundation of the free and open internet. They create unnecessary and unconstitutional barriers for adults and young people to…...
The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. Here's What We Need to Do.
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (483+ words) We've all had the unsettling experience of seeing an ad online that reveals just how much advertisers know about our lives. You're right to be disturbed. Those very same online ad systems have been used by the government to warrantlessly…...