You share more personal data online than you realize, risking your privacy — and perhaps, your safety. EFF’s Hayley Tsukayama, @evacide, and @pluralistic join PBS'
NOVA for “Secrets in Your Data,” a look at how to thrive online without compromising personal privacy. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/secrets-in-your-data/
A reminder to Swifties and non-Swifties alike to regularly review your phone's location sharing settings.
Remember: the deepest privacy threat from mobile phones is the way that they announce your whereabouts all day (and all night) long.
Stalking your ex using phone location services isn’t cool. Neither is the way that governments and companies use your phone's data to determine where you've been. Learn more about protecting your privacy, and how EFF helps:
People used to think an encrypted web was impossible. But billions of HTTPS certificates later—and with help from EFF's Certbot!—it's a different story. Support fearless public interest technology today. https://supporters.eff.org/donate/support-work-on-certbot--s
Today, the EU Parliament endorsed the EU Media Freedom Act (EMFA), promising greater transparency about media ownership and protection against government surveillance. Yet, it lacks key safeguards and grants problematic content moderation privileges to media service providers. 1/
The EMFA addresses media capture threats but the protections against spying on journalists aren’t robust enough. EMFA also sets out a 24-hour content moderation exemption for media, which makes platforms host content by force. Here's why this is a bad idea 2/2
It's Sunshine Week, and that means it's time for The #Foilies! Each year EFF and Muckrock compile the previous year's worst and weirdest responses to public records requests.
We hope this year’s “awards” for the absolute worst in government transparency enrage you, and that you channel that rage into filing your own public records requests. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/foilies-2024
Los Angeles police bungled their own release of officers’ photos, blamed a journalist and anti-policing group for disclosing them, and then sued the groups to try to erase the images from the internet. It’s about as unconstitutional and futile as it sounds. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/foilies-2024#lapd
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita aggressively promoted his opposition to gender-affirming care in the media, but when American Oversight requested the documentation behind his claims, Rokita claimed opinions and speculation were exempt from disclosure. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/foilies-2024#rokita
Secret police may conjure images of Soviet-era totalitarian regimes or dystopian fiction. But a Virginia police agency is leaning into that theme hard by refusing to disclose the names of its officers in response to a public records request.
In Pennsylvania, a judge issued a ruling full of allusions to banned books in finding that a school district had "effectuated a cover-up" of the removal of books from library shelves. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/foilies-2024#literary
When police search people’s homes without knocking, it creates dangers for residents and the cops. Which is why it’s crucial the public know when and why police might deploy this tactic. Mississippi’s justice courts, however, can’t be bothered to make even basic details about these raids public. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/foilies-2024#blindfold
Ahmed was convicted in May 2018 to ten years in prison under the UAE’s draconian cybercrime law. To learn more about his case, visit https://www.eff.org/offline/ahmed-mansoor