The Internet: How does it work? It's not a question that the Utah state government bothered to ask before attempting to enact its Online Age Verification law (Bill 73). Not asking this question could prove to be a massive digital autonomy and privacy issue for all of us, down the line. — Read the rest
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On the sixth floor of an AT&T building on Folsom Street in San Francisco, a locked room labeled 641A held the hardware that gave the NSA a copy of every byte of internet traffic passing through. The man who figured this out was a retired AT&T technician named Mark Klein, and in January 2006 he walked into the lobby of the Electronic Frontier Foundation a few blocks away and started talking. —…
Today's links A free, open visual identity for enshittification: No mere poop emoji! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: RIAA v little girl; Portal turret Easter egg; Atari v indie games; Chabon's Phantom Tollbooth intro; The 0.1%; Well-labeled inns; "More Everything Forever." Upcoming appearances: London, Berlin, NYC, Barcelona, Hay-on-Wye, London, NYC. Recent…
The government’s reliance on grand juries to bring charges against activists, protesters, and the president’s personal enemies has been misplaced. Increasingly, grand juries are refusing to give the government what it wants: rubber-stamped indictments that will allow it to move forward with vindictive prosecutions. But there’s still something grand juries offer that regular courts can’t: […]
After nearly 20 years on the platform, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says it is leaving X. "This isn't a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue," the digital rights group said. "The math hasn't worked out for a while now." From the report: We posted to Twitter (now known as X) five to ten times a day in 2018. Those tweets garnered somewhere between 50 and 100 million…
Today's links Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender": The history of digital rights, from the very beginning to this very moment. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Tariffs and monopolies; Paperclip dodecahedron; Class war comix; Glenn Beck's brain; Iceland v Pirates; Dashers v apps; Leaked NYPD goon squad manual. Upcoming appearances: Montreal, Toronto, San Francisco, London,…
EFF announced last week that it has stepped in to defend yet another anonymous Jehovah’s Witness critic from having their identity exposed through bogus copyright claims. The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society — the organizational arm of the Jehovah’s Witnesses — has sent DMCA subpoenas to both Google and Cloudflare seeking information to unmask […]
Federal agents at a California border crossing pulled aside a grandmother and demanded to know why she kept visiting local casinos. She is a lawful permanent resident of the Imperial Valley who'd committed no crime — but her driving habits had been logged by a covert network of over 40 license plate cameras hidden along Southern California's border highways, a CalMatters investigation by Wendy…
Google möchte das Android-Ökosystem mehr unter seine Kontrolle bringen. (Symbolbild) – Gemeinfrei-ähnlich freigegeben durch unsplash.com Madeline LiuNach Meinung großer Digitalorganisationen aus der ganzen Welt versucht Google mit einer neuen Registrierungspflicht für Android-Entwickler:innen, seine Marktposition im Mobile-Bereich auszubauen. Das gehe zu Lasten der Freiheit all derer, die beim…