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La tecnología de realidad extendida (RX) puede ser la próxima frontera de la informática, pero podría recoger enormes cantidades de datos de nuestra vida privada. Aprendamos la lección del pasado y protejamos nuestros derechos humanos al desarrollar la RX.
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Not sure how to start improving your digital security? EFF's Surveillance Self Defense resources has you covered with our lesson playlists covering common security scenarios.
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The UK government's new ad campaign makes a ridiculous assertion: that privacy is just a cover for criminality. No one is buying it.
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Facebook vests fact-checkers with the power to label users’ posts, and it cannot merely step aside and force its users to debate those fact-checkers when disputes arise. Facebook must still provide, maintain, and administer its own appeals process.
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End-to-end encryption protects the privacy and security of all, including children.
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The Electronic Frontier Alliance is an information-sharing network comprised of grassroots groups around the country promoting digital rights in their respective communities.
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We're lucky to live in an era where so many good investigative journalists are on the tech and surveillance beat. The Global Investigative Journalism Network () and have named the 5 biggest surveillance investigations of 2021.
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Privacy is a team sport. That's why we put together a free resource to help make it easier to become a digital security educator.
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La EFF y exhortan a los gobiernos, las empresas y los defensores a abordar los derechos humanos en el contexto de la realidad extendida (RV y RA)
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Most systems are uniquely configured—and thus identifiable—even if you are using privacy-protective software. Learn more at Cover Your Tracks:
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The 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing begin on February 4, and one can anticipate a copyright-related cycle of outrage and misinformation. #DMCA #CopyrightWeek project-disco.org/intellectual-p
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Facebook may outsource its fact-checking to external partners, but it’s not acceptable to outsource its appeals process.
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Law enforcement leaders in the US and the UK are cynically using crimes against children as a reason to demand a world in which all of our messages are subject to government-approved scanners.
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State lawmakers across the country are hearing more from farmers, mechanics, independent repair shops, and everyday people: copyright restrictions shouldn’t stand in the way of the right to repair.
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If your local community-based group supports free expression, security, privacy, creativity, and access to knowledge consider joining the Electronic Frontier Alliance to connect with allies across the country.
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Help EFF spearhead our work on corporate threats to speech and privacy online! We're looking for a full-time advocate and researcher to join our Activism team as a Senior Speech and Privacy Activist.
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Since 2020, Zoom, Facebook, YouTube, and Eventbrite have all censored academic events universities at which Khaled was invited to appear. We’re suing to learn what role the federal government played in this censorship.
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If you can’t fix it, you don’t really own it. Copyright shouldn’t stand in the way of your right to repair.
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Police have yet to make a convincing argument that they need to regularly deploy surveillance drones in the field, and there are numbers that prove it.
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Si su organización comunitaria apoya la libre expresión, la seguridad, la privacidad, la creatividad y el acceso al conocimiento, considere la posibilidad de unirse a la Alianza de Fronteras Electrónicas para conectarse con aliados de todo el país.
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This week was #CopyrightWeek, where groups across the internet reflect on the affect copyright policy has. This year: the 10th anniversary of the Internet Blackout
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According to the Global Investigative Journalism Network () and , last year's investigation into the influence of Amazon Ring giveaways on the LAPD is one of the best tech investigations of the year.
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In Copyright and Disability, Prof. @blakereid highlights how copyright law subordinates the actual interests of people with disabilities who seek to access copyrighted works by prioritizing hypothetical interests of copyright holders in blocking access californialawreview.org/print/copyrigh
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People in both the US and the UK understand the importance of encryption and privacy. That’s why this ham-handed ad campaign will flop.
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The latest edition of our EFFector Newsletter is out now! Read or listen to the issue to learn about the latest in your digital rights. We cover our celebration of Copyright Week and much more.
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Happening now: The San Francisco Police Department illegally spied on Black-led protests against police violence in 2020. Watch and ask a court to hold SFPD accountable at a livestreamed hearing.
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We'll be in court this Friday asking a judge to rule that San Francisco police illegally spied on Black-led protesters in the wake of George Floyd’s 2020 murder. Don’t miss the livestreamed hearing.
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From our friends : "Individuals should have the power to decide whether surveillance tools are used in their communities and to impose limits on their use."
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Today, the stood up for a free internet and voted for a Digital Services Act that protects free speech and rejects a filternet, made in Europe. Check out our blog post for what more needs to be done for a successful final regulation.
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This week we're reflecting on copyright policy, and what that means for startups and the Internet users who depend on them. But what does balanced, innovation-friendly copyright policy look like? Our IP Counsel Abby Rives explains in a new blog:
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Facebook vests fact-checkers with the power to label users’ posts, and it cannot merely step aside and force its users to debate those fact-checkers when disputes arise. Facebook must still provide, maintain, and administer its own appeals process.
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This week on How to Fix the Internet, podcast guest explains how decades-old court cases have eroded financial privacy.
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