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Claw Back Your Privacy Support free expression and fight the mass surveillance used for control and intimidation. https://eff.org/spring
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Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago
Cell-site simulators (CSS, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers) are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower. Our new tool, Rayhunter, can help you find them.
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Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying
Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of techni...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago
Being able to access information about abortion online is more vital than ever – and yet content is being taken down and advocates are having their accounts banned. It’s time for Big Tech to #StopCensoringAbortion.
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Stop Censoring Abortion: Documenting Social Media Suppression of Reproductive Health Information
When we launched Stop Censoring Abortion, our goals were to understand how social media platforms were silencing abortion-related content, gather d...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago
EFF’s @npub10pum...tcws joined Tech Policy Press’ Sunday Show to discuss the first systemic risk assessments and independent audit reports from Very Large Online Platforms and Search Engines produced in compliance with the EU's Digital Services Act.
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Evaluating the First Systemic Risk and Audit Reports Under the Digital Services Act
Tech Policy Press Associate Editor Ramsha Jahangir hosts a discussion featuring Hillary Ross, Magdalena Jozwiak, and Svea Windwehr.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago
“The UAE is an authoritarian state with a dismal human rights record and a history of using technology to spy on activists, journalists, and dissidents,” EFF’s @npub1dzv5...5v2p told @npub14lpy...ujhu, so it likely would optimize AI not for democracy but for police states.
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A Spymaster Sheikh Controls a $1.5 Trillion Fortune. He Wants to Use It to Dominate AI
Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan—the UAE’s chess-obsessed, jiujitsu-loving intelligence chief—controls vast sums of sovereign wealth. America’s ...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago
As the relationship between commercial AI and the national security state becomes closer, it’s important to ask: will government secrecy make these models even less transparent and accountable?
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The U.S. National Security State is Here to Make AI Even Less Transparent and Accountable
As the US national security state attempts to leverage powerful commercial AI to give it an edge, there are a number of questions that remain unans...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago
“This is extremely suspicious behavior that normal towers do not exhibit,” EFF’s @npub13whq...4444 told @npub14lpy...ujhu. “This is not 100 percent incontrovertible truth, but it’s strong evidence suggesting a cell-site simulator was deployed.”
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Secret Phone Surveillance Tech Was Likely Deployed at 2024 DNC
Data WIRED collected during the 2024 Democratic National Convention strongly suggests the use of a cell-site simulator, a controversial spy device ...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation 1 year ago
Now that Meta is actively rolling out its content policy changes, we are deeply concerned that they will harm vulnerable people. If the company truly values free speech—and its users—it’s moving in the wrong direction.
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Meta’s New Content Policy Will Harm Vulnerable Users. If It Really Valued Free Speech, It Would Make These Changes
Earlier this week, when Meta announced changes to their content moderation processes, we were hopeful that some of those changes—which we will ad...
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