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This heavy-handed plan to cut federal funding to any school that doesn’t block all social media platforms may have good intentions—like ensuring kids are able to focus on school work when they’re behind a desk—but the ramifications of such a bill would be bleak, and it’s not clear that it would solve any actual problem.
Senators who believe that children and teens must be shielded from social media have updated the problematic Protecting Kids on Social Media Act , though it remains an unconstitutional bill that replaces parents’ choices about what their children can do online with a government-mandated prohibition. As we wrote in August, the original bill (S. 1291) contained a host of problems . A recent draft of the amended bill gets rid of some of the most flagrantly unconstitutional provisions: It no...
In this report, we outline how many of the internet's ills have one thing in common: they're based on the business model of widespread corporate surveillance online. Dismantling this system would not only be a huge step forward to our digital privacy, it would raise the floor for serious discussions about the internet's future.
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Surveillance Self-Defense
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Surveillance Self-Defense is EFF's online guide to defending yourself and your friends from surveillance by using secure technology and developing careful practices.
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Privacy Badger
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Privacy Badger is an install-and-forget browser add-on that stops advertisers and trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web.
