Articles Tagged
Electronic Frontier Foundation
March 19, 2020
The EFF got in touch with the institutions that have the dataset. Some deleted it, while one refused and others didn't bother to respond.
March 02, 2020
Thanks to this flood of free certificates, the web is a lot more encrypted than it was a few years ago.
December 19, 2019
For years, organisations have been using a common tactic called the warrant canary to warn people that the government has secretly demanded access to their private information. Now, a proposed standard could make this tool easier to use.
March 26, 2019
The main disagreement: if consumers will be able to delete their data or whether the law would give companies ways to wiggle out.
September 26, 2018
Put down that “Bob Smith” fake account and back off, Facebook told the Memphis Police Department, waving its real-names policy in the air.
September 04, 2018
As the EFF puts it, the makers of buggy bots (there are two so far) are poster children for the failure of automated takedown processes.
June 11, 2018
It is something few Americans will have heard of, but the US Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) is catching the eye of privacy advocates - and not in a good way.
January 09, 2018
Your chances of being searched at a US border crossing are now at an all-time high. But the chances that border agents will be pulling data from your devices declined this past week - at least by a little.
March 16, 2017
Activists mull challenge to court's ruling that remote hacking can't be litigated in the US
