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We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
“Social media business models are extractive and exploitative. But we can’t fix our societies by fixing social media. I think that we have to deal with hate in the offline world.” -Read our latest Speaking Freely interview with South African human rights defender Anriette Esterhuysen here:
Many of the internet’s ills are based on widespread corporate surveillance online. This pervasive system, ran by corporations and governments, stifles our speech, and erodes our privacy. But together, we can dismantle it.
Location data, harvested from mobile apps, enables law enforcement to monitor individuals through data bought from brokers, often without warrants or oversight.
France’s arrest of Telegram’s CEO may relate to refusal to moderate or intercept end-to-end encrypted messages, or it may relate to hosting publicly accessible content. Both scenarios could be dangerous for users in the future.
Hey Resorts World Las Vegas: It's wrong to treat all hackers as dangerous, and to attempt to penalize people just for owning the tools of the trade. These tools have productive uses, as demonstrated by the massive convention of professional security researchers taking place. #DEFCON32