Notices by Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social), page 2

"The phone is a window into the soul," from a record of everyone you meet with to personal correspondence. "And so for many people, they might want to take precautions to keep that information secure," EFF’s @Adam_D_Schwartz told @cbcnews. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-us-border-phone-search-1.7502829

If you're heading out to a protest, there are a number of concepts to keep in mind to keep yourself—and your data—safe. https://ssd.eff.org/module/attending-protest

The time for debate is over: copyright should never block someone’s free access to the law. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/eff-urges-third-circuit-join-legal-chorus-no-one-owns-law

Congress is pushing website-blocking bills that would let private companies erase sites from the internet—based on nothing but a hollow promise not to abuse this new power. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-reviving-site-blocking-and-its-just-dangerous-ever

“For more than two decades, surveillance towers at the border have proven to be a boondoggle, and adding AI isn’t going to make it any less of a boondoggle — it will just be an AI-powered boondoggle,” EFF’s Dave Maass told @theintercept. https://theintercept.com/2025/04/03/google-cbp-ai-border-surveillance-ibm-equitus/

The Court added: “The complaint adequately pleads that the DOGE Defendants 'plainly and openly crossed a congressionally drawn line in the sand.'"

VICTORY: Judge Rejects Government’s Attempt to Dismiss EFF Lawsuit Against OPM, DOGE, and Musk https://www.eff.org/press/releases/judge-rejects-governments-attempt-dismiss-eff-lawsuit-against-opm-doge-and-musk

"The complaint plausibly alleges that actions by OPM were not representative of its ordinary day-to-day operations but were, in sharp contrast to its normal procedures, illegal, rushed, and dangerous,” the judge wrote. Read our original complaint: https://www.eff.org/document/afge-v-opm-complaint

EFF has been documenting DMCA takedown abuse for decades, EFF’s Corynne McSherry told Callan Quinn’s Scamurai. “A DMCA claim is one of the few and far too easy ways to use U.S. law to get material taken down quickly, with no prior judicial review." https://www.scamurai.io/p/the-dmca-censorship-tactic-scrubbing

“Unless you are using GPG (GNU Privacy Guard), email is not end-to-end encrypted, and the contents of a message can be intercepted and read at many points, including on Google’s email servers,” EFF’s @evacide told @washingtonpost. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/01/waltz-national-security-council-signal-gmail/

Breaking: Congress is trying to revive website blocking. EFF is fighting back–join us. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-no-to-internet-blacklists

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: No one owns the law. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/eff-urges-third-circuit-join-legal-chorus-no-one-owns-law

EFF’s “How to Fix the Internet” podcast is a nominee in the Webby Awards! Please help us out by casting your vote today. We’ve just recorded the first interview for Season 6 - episodes will start dropping in May! https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2025/podcasts/shows/technology

EFF’s Matthew Guariglia joined @CNN's Clare Duffy on the “Terms of Service” podcast to discuss home security doorbell cameras: where the footage is going and how it’s being used. https://www.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/terms-of-service-with-clare-duffy/episodes/95553956-96f3-11ef-80c1-4f3864ff6cc2

All surveillance tech should have a log showing who used it, when it was used, what the search parameters were, & why they used it so others can come back "and verify the person wasn’t using it to stalk their ex-wife,” EFF’s Dave Maass told @TexasObserver. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-arsenal-artificial-intelligence-lege/

23andMe should give every user a real choice to say “no” to a data transfer in this bankruptcy and ensure that any buyer makes real privacy commitments. If you're looking to delete your data and destroy your DNA sample, here's how. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/how-delete-your-23andme-data

Every face scan is a “unique opportunity” to assert your rights, EFF’s Saira Hussain told @huffingtonpost. If more people keep declining face scans, maybe TSA will think twice “about whether it’s actually effective to roll out programs like these.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tsa-facial-scan-opt-out_l_67e2f79fe4b075349cd175d6

California AB 412 imposes impossible copyright disclosure rules, crushing innovation & handing power to big tech. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/californias-ab-412-bill-could-crush-startups-and-cement-big-tech-ai-monopoly

Looking to protect your sensitive information from data brokers? Don’t want Big Tech monetizing your personal data? Privacy Badger is here to help! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/online-tracking-out-control-privacy-badger-can-help-you-fight-back

A mythical spike in organized retail theft led states to OK a taxpayer-funded police shopping spree for electronic surveillance technology - mission creep at its worst, EFF’s Matthew Guariglia told The Appeal. https://theappeal.org/shoplifting-panic-police-military-gear-license-plate-readers-facial-recognition/