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Protect Your Privacy with California's DROP Tool
9+ hour, 24+ min ago (589+ words) Are you a California resident? Then we've got exciting news for you: there's a tool just for you that lets you take a single, relatively easy step to protect your privacy. It's called a DROP request. (That's Delete Request and…...
“Stealth Crawlers” Are Not a Threat to the Open Web. Bills Targeting Them Would Be.
12+ hour, 2+ min ago (392+ words) There’s a new boogeyman in the battles over AI: so-called “stealth crawlers.” We’ll admit it—the term “stealth crawlers” sounds quite nefarious. In reality, they’re anything but. “Stealth crawlers” are simply automated tools to access and collect public web data…...
🚫 Don't Let Congress Age-Gate the Internet | EFFector 38.13
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (56+ words) The effort to age gate the internet is back in Washington—and now it has a new name. Recently passed by the House of Representatives, the KIDS Act is a sprawling package of proposals to control what we can see…...
European Commission Chooses to Keep EU Users Locked Up Behind Big Tech’s Gates
1+ week, 4+ day ago (381+ words) Users are always seeking more control over their social networking experience to make it better, whether to improve privacy or enhance flexibility. Interoperability between social networking platforms like Facebook and TikTok has so many benefits that solve those issues. This…...
EFF to Grindr: This Pride Month, Put Safety and Privacy Over Profits
3+ week, 3+ day ago (284+ words) This Pride month, we’re calling on the dating app Grindr to prioritize LGBTQ+ user safety by making privacy the default across its platform. That means no more sharing personal data with advertisers or training AI on private information without users…...
Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For
3+ week, 3+ day ago (258+ words) RSS has been around since 1999, but its real publicity glow-up came from Google Reader, a newsreader service that Google offered between 2005 and 2013. Despite the alarm bells people rang at the time, the death of Google Reader wasn’t the death of…...
The FCC’s Spam Call Proposal Is Just a Data Collection Scheme
3+ week, 4+ day ago (347+ words) This Rule Will Not Decrease Spam Calls The FCC gives away the true reason for this proposal in their own comments: this is a move to shut down the very existence of anonymous phones, aka burner phones. FCC says in…...
The Free and Open Web Is Under Attack at the IETF
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (1172+ words) The ability to access publicly available information using automated tools is a central value and benefit of a free and open internet. Automated access—often called crawling or scraping—powers important, useful tools for locating, preserving, and analyzing online information....
Internet Age-Gates Are a Growing Global Threat
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (786+ words) Electronic Frontier Foundation Internet Age-Gates Are a Growing Global Threat The internet is an essential resource for young people and adults to access information, explore community, and find themselves—both inside countries and across continents. Yet governments around the world…...
🔒 A Win for Encrypted Messaging | EFFector 38.10
2+ mon, 16+ hour ago (50+ words) When it comes to keeping our texts, chats, and other digital messages safe from prying eyes, we have a powerful tool: end-to-end encryption. Used correctly, end-to-end encryption turns our conversations online into secret messages that can only be decoded by…...