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Top Mental Health and Prayer Apps Fail at Privacy, Security (2022)
Despite dealing with issues like depression, suicide, domestic violence, and PTSD, these apps share data freely and raise many security concerns
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Toronto-Based VPN Provider Plans to Quit Canada over Lawful-Access Bill
Psiphon, a software company that helps internet users under oppressive regimes evade online censorship, plans to leave Canada if the lawful-access bill passes.
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The weaponization of travel blacklists
[A Federal Air Marshal (FAM) tasked with surveillance of an airline passenger targeted by Quiet Skies lists and/or rules followed the traveler out to the curb and recorded the license plate number of the vehicle in which she left the airport, so that her airline reservations could be integrated with license plate…
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Protecting Net Neutrality and the Open Internet
(Updated May 6 with additional notes; see below.) In January, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) order that prevented Internet Service Providers (ISPs) ...
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A Step Toward Protecting Fair Use on YouTube
Posted by Fred von Lohmann, Copyright Legal Director More than 400 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Some of those upl...
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OpenWrt Joins Software Freedom Conservancy
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Cloudflare’s Transparency Report for Second Half 2016 and a Disclosure for 2013
Cloudflare is publishing today its seventh transparency report, covering the second half of 2016. For the first time, we are able to present information on a previously undisclosed National Security Letter (NSL) Cloudflare received in the 2013 reporting period.
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Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls
Among adults who have not paid for news in the past year, the most common reason they cite is that they can find plenty of other news articles for free.
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Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism
Humans are the only primates with a population-wide hand preference. A new Oxford-led study, 'Bipedalism and brain expansion explain human handedness', published in PLOS Biology, traces it back to bipedalism and brain expansion.
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The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X
The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X. The platform never aligned with our values and no longer serves as a space for communication....
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It’s Time to Reaffirm Our First Amendment Right to Boycott
The Supreme Court must affirm that politically-motivated consumer boycotts are protected by the Constitution.
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Apple Has Removed Airfoil Speakers Touch From The iOS App Store
Visit the Rogue Amoeba blog to read more.
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Why Thieves Steal Soap
Stealing soap is almost as good as stealing cash.
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Apple's Crystal Prison and the Future of Open Platforms
Two weeks ago, Steve Wozniak made a public call for Apple to open its platforms for those who wish to tinker, tweak and innovate with their internals. EFF supports Wozniak's position: while Apple's products have many virtues, they are marred by an ugly set of restrictions on what users and...
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In China, Your Credit Score Is Affected by Your Political Opinions
China's social score system is full of rumor and speculation. We clear up the misconceptions and explain how the credit system really works.
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Retire This Idea: Scientific Knowledge Structured as “Literature”
In my view, what's most outmoded within science, most badly in need of retirement, is the way we structure and organize scientific knowledge itself. Academic literature, even as it moves online, is a relic of the era of typesetting, modeled on static, irrevocable, toothpaste-out-of-the-tube publication. Just as the…
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Illinois General Assembly passes bill to ban citizens from recording police
The Illinois General Assembly just passed a bill that would prevent citizens from recording the police.
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EFF Dismayed by House's Gutted USA Freedom Act
EFF and Other Civil Liberties Organizations Call on Congress to Support Uncompromising Reform Since the introduction of the USA FREEDOM Act, a bill that has over 140 cosponsors, Congress has been clear about its intent: ending the mass collection of Americans' calling records. Many members of...
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EFF Challenges National Security Letter Statute in Landmark Lawsuit
Since the first national security letter statute was passed in 1986, the FBI has issued hundreds of thousands of such letters seeking private telecommunications and financial records of Americans without any prior approval from courts. Indeed, for the period between 2003 and 2006 alone, almost 200,...
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EFF to Court: Government Must Inform People That It’s Accessing Their Data
Seattle, Washington—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) told a federal court today that the government is violating the U.S. Constitution when it fails to notify people that it has accessed or examined their private communications stored by Internet providers in the cloud. EFF is supporting...
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Magnet Ban Cleared
It seems like just the other day that magnet spheres were regulated more restrictively than cars, cigarettes or alcohol in the US. A week ago there was no acceptable warning, no acceptable age, no sales restriction nor waiver that allowed production of magnets like Zen Magnets, Buckyballs, Neoballs, Magnicube or…
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Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale?
In their own words, we see that Snap Inc’s design choices expose millions of kids to harm
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Mealworms can compost styrofoam
Within our living systems, we have been raising several types of mealworms in order to compost polystyrene (styrofoam). We recently came across the study by 2015 Standard University that confirms our suspicions that they are indeed turning styrofoam into usable organic matter! Their notes are not m
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