Notices by Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social), page 4

Young people oppose KOSA, which will control what they can read and say online. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/kosa-internet-censorship-bill-just-passed-senate-its-our-last-chance-stop-it

KOSA, just passed by the Senate 91-3, will allow politicians and federal commissioners to decide what Americans should read and watch online. It’s a blatant attack on our free speech. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/kosa-internet-censorship-bill-just-passed-senate-its-our-last-chance-stop-it

Digital spaces enable LGBTQ+ people to engage with their gender and sexual orientation, but it can be daunting to give up any kind of privacy online while doing so. Here's a guide to protecting your identities online, from using a VPN to obscuring faces. 
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/beyond-pride-month-protecting-digital-identities-lgbtq-people

Google claims its “Privacy Sandbox” protects your privacy, but it really protects their profits. That's why Privacy Badger's latest update automatically opts you out. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/why-privacy-badger-opts-you-out-googles-privacy-sandbox

Still on X? Without notice, X has opted all users into training its "Grok" AI Model. To turn off this setting and stop your "posts, interactions, inputs, and results" from being used for training and fine-tuning Grok, visit https://x.com/settings/grok_settings and uncheck the checkbox.

REDALERT: The Senate is likely to vote on the Kids Online Safety Act (#KOSA) this week. This internet censorship bill will impact everyone who uses social media. Tell your representatives to vote no today. #THREAD https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/congress-amended-kosa-its-still-censorship-bill

Google no longer intends to drop support for third-party cookies in Chrome. "This is an extremely disappointing decision that really just highlights Google's commitment to their own profits over users' privacy," EFF’s Lena Cohen told @theregister. https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/23/google_cookies_third_party_continue/

DHS bought a dog-like robot that it modified with an antenna array to let law enforcement overload people’s home networks to disable any “internet of things” devices, according a transcript obtained by EFF’s Dave Maass and shared with @404mediaco. https://www.404media.co/dhs-has-a-ddos-robot-to-disable-internet-of-things-booby-traps-inside-homes/

Digital spaces enable LGBTQ+ people to engage with their gender and sexual orientation, but it can be daunting to give up any kind of privacy online while doing so. Here's a guide to protecting your identities online, from using a VPN to obscuring faces.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/beyond-pride-month-protecting-digital-identities-lgbtq-people

EFF submitted comments to the FCC demanding investigation of SS7 and Diameter security and transparency into how the telecoms handle the security of these networks. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/eff-fcc-ss7-vulnerable-and-telecoms-must-acknowledge

We are "stuck in a digital monoculture, where decades of anti-competitive practices have created it so that just one system is responsible for so much of what we rely on from everything from airlines to hospitals to schools," EFF’s @falsemirror told Mashable. https://mashable.com/article/crowdstrike-update-fail-explained

Just deleting a period-tracking app is “bad advice because, simply, this is not the data that is being used in these prosecutions right now,” EFF’s @evacide told USA TODAY. Worry more about Facebook messenger chats, Google searches, and location data.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/07/19/abortion-digital-privacy-tools-vpn/74365552007/

As a new burst of misinformation/disinformation floods the internet this week, hear @alicetiara discuss why seemingly ludicrous conspiracy theories get so many views and followers, and when fact-checking does and doesn’t work.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/podcast-episode-so-you-think-youre-critical-thinker

If data from Minnesota is indicative of what’s happening in the rest of the country, then police are using drones more and more (and spending a lot more money on them too). https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/police-are-using-drones-more-and-spending-more-them

Today marks EFF's 34th anniversary! Thank you to every person who has stood with EFF’s technologists, lawyers, researchers, and advocates since 1990. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/34-years-supporting-wild-and-weird-world-online

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) coined the term “enshittification:” a pattern in which online platforms trap us, then treat us more and more like commodities. He joins this season's final “How to Fix the Internet” episode to talk about breaking out of the downward spiral. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/podcast-episode-fighting-enshittification

@pluralistic joins EFF’s Cindy Cohn and @jgkelley on “How to Fix the Internet” to discuss why “intellectual property” is a misnomer, and how the law has been abused to eliminate protections for society.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/podcast-episode-fighting-enshittification

Interoperability makes good things great! We deserve the right to repair our devices and move from one platform to another. Jacques the Jackalope tells more here: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/m-jackalope

Instead of a handful of platforms trying to control your life online, people are reclaiming control by building more open and empowering approaches to social media. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/whats-difference-between-mastodon-bluesky-and-threads

Many social media age verification bills would restrict access to vital content, including education and resources that LGBTQ+ youth without local support often rely upon. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/global-suppression-online-lgbtq-speech-continues