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The official in charge of President Trump's ceasefire plan for Gaza criticized Israel for its attacks on the Palestinian territory and warned that the alternative to the U.S. proposal is the next war.
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Nature, Published online: 28 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02733-9Nature talks to specialists about the changes coming to Facebook and Instagram, and whether thereās evidence they will help.
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The unpopular Paramount Warner Brothers merger should have been a perfect opportunity for Democrats to demonstrate they are finally serious about stuff like media consolidation, right wing propaganda, media reform, and antitrust after decades of policy incoherence. Instead, numerous prominent Califoā¦
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The country is continuing to reel from multiple infectious disease outbreaks in America, even as childhood vaccination rates continue to fall. Measles, cyclosporiasis, whooping cough: you donāt actually need me to go on. With RFK Jr. using his position as Secretary of HHS to further muddy the watersā¦
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Back in June, the Supreme Court ruled 6ā3 in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission that federal limits on coordinated expenditures by political parties violate the First Amendment. Which is every bit as stupid and corrupt as it sounds. Previously, under the Federal ā¦
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Compliant Technologies probably would have preferred to keep flying under the radar. But a gaudy new no-bid contract with ICE (worth up to $20 million!) made it impossible. Prior to ICEās big purchase, it may as well have never existed. It only had a few clients, and those few clients purchased a feā¦
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The SunFounder Raspberry Pi Pico With the Ultimate Starter Kit offers a rich IoT learning experience for beginners aged 8 and up. WithĀ over 450 components, 117 projects, and expert-led tutorials, this kit makes learning microcontroller programming and IoT engaging and accessible. It also features 27ā¦
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When Pete Hegseth declared Anthropic a national security risk because it wouldnāt agree to his dangerously unethical demands for what Claude should be able to do, Anthropic sued to challenge the directives. One of the challenges was brought in the Northern District of California, where Anthropic hasā¦
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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderationās Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice ā or go straight to the RSS feed. To get extended episodā¦
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Thereās stillĀ a massive effort afootĀ to implement statewide āright to repairā laws that try to make it cheaper, easier, and environmentally friendlier for you to repair the technology you own.Ā All fifty states have at least flirted with the idea, though only Massachusetts, New York, Texas, Minnesotaā¦
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Weāve been detailing the trademark bullying ways of Buc-eeās, famous gas station and convenience store chain in the American south and infamous IP bully, for over a year now. Buc-eeās seems to think that any semi-related business that has branding that involves a cartoon animal or in any way referenā¦
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Over the past two years, Belgium's anti-piracy blocklist has grown past 1,500 domains. This week the government's anti-piracy department expanded its effort, ordering domain registrars and a registry to hand over names, bank accounts, crypto wallets and connection logs linked to pirate site operatorā¦
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Session description:Ā The rise of the anti-rights movement is accelerating the criminalization of LGBTQ+ people and identity in Africa.Ā In Senegal, the governmentās amendment of Article 319 of Senegalās Penal
The post Resisting anti-rights attacks on the LGBTQ+ movement in the digital age appeared ā¦
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Australia has passed a law requiring major tech platforms such as Google and Meta to strike deals with Australian news publishers or pay a levy on their advertising revenue.
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EFF, Access Now, and Data Privacy Brasil are putting forward recommendations to strengthen robust privacy and data protection safeguards in the context of Brazil's elections. The recommendations stress the close relationship between violations of personal data protection and challenges to the integrā¦
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Meta has settled ā pending approval ā a case about the additcive features of its social media app that was first filed by 51 US States in 2023, for $18-billion. Now it is calling on TikTok and YouTube to also comply.
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Flock Safety has been on the wrong side of the press cycle ā if not the wrong side of history ā for most of the last couple of years. Flockās automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are more comprehensive than many of those previously deployed by law enforcement agencies. Not only do they capture plā¦
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The Essential MATLAB and LabVIEW Mega Bundle has 9 courses to help you improve your skills in programming and visualization. Youāll learn the basics of each and then go through hands-on courses building apps, learning about data analysis and visualization, and more. Itās on sale for $30. Note: The Tā¦
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Imagine a scenario where a documentary filmmaker, in the course of making the documentary, captures some damning footage of corporate malfeasance, which she wishes to share with an investigative reporting organization anonymously. Should we be concerned that mandates on AI watermarking might reveal ā¦
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The thing about raiding law offices is that they tend to be filled with people who actually know the law. A bunch of opportunistic ICE officers thought they might be able to talk their way into an illegal search, but that initiative (is that the word for this?) died out almost immediately when the iā¦
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Last year, as decades of work by RFK Jr. to undermine vaccines with false links to deaths and autism culminated in his appointment to lead HHS, America saw the largest resurgence of measles cases in something like three decades. Three people died, including two children, all unvaccinated. Kennedy moā¦
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As weāve been noting, billionaire Larry Ellisonās effort to dominate whatās left of corporate media is facing some headwinds after 12 states filed an antitrust lawsuit against his planned $111 billion merger between Paramount and Warner Brothers. As weāve also noted, this is a giant turd of a deal, ā¦
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Flock Safety is hurting. It spent the early part of its career pitching plate reader tech to people who honestly didnāt need it: HOA supervisors and gated communities. Then it realized there was far more money to be made by courting governments, rather than the richest parts of the private sector. Aā¦
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Flock CEO calls for ācompromiseā as surveillance company faces growing backlash
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Take your design skills to the next level with the 2026 Canva Creator Mastery Bundle, a powerful all-in-one course for modern creators and business owners. This program teaches you how to use Canva effectively to produce professional-quality visuals for any purpose. Youāll explore practical design tā¦
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Six years ago, when Trump first tried to force ByteDance to sell TikTokās US operations to his billionaire buddy Larry Ellison at Oracle, we wondered if this would finally get Oracle to change its tune on Section 230. While not as widely known outside of Silicon Valley, Oracle has been a driving forā¦
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Cineby has published a step-by-step schedule for shutting itself down in stages. The site started by redirecting its mirror sites Cineplay and Fmovies+, to then cut off its live streams a day later. The shutdown is expected to be completed by the end of next week. Why the operation is shutting down ā¦
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Since 2001, Apple has been warning its users when they may have been targeted by spyware, using email, iMessage, and banners in their accounts. But in September of this year,
The post Apple threat notifications and spyware: what everyone should know appeared first on Access Now.
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Earlier this month, Franceās top court struck down the countryās legislation that banned social media use for people under 15 years old, which had been scheduled to take effect in January 2027. This is a welcome win for free expression, as we face a wave of countries and U.S. states seeking to passā¦
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Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) build a searchable map of everywhere a driver goes, fed into databases that police, ICE, and private vendors can query after the fact. Networked across a city, ALPRs are purpose-built to track everyone regardless of suspicion. ALPRs are not a surveillance toolā¦
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StreamSkill has combined seven of their best Office 2021/365 courses to create this awesome Ultimate Microsoft Office 2021/365 Bundle. Whether youāre a student, an office professional, a business owner, a freelancer, or just someone who wants to get started with the most widely used Microsoft prograā¦
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Weāve been talking for a while now about how the rush (much of it driven by politiciansā obsession with Jonathan Haidtās mostly debunked book) to ban kids from social media is dangerously stupid. It misdiagnoses the problem and creates a solution that both does not work and makes actual problems worā¦
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Trump Threatens Think Tank With Libel Lawsuit For Telling The Truth About National Guard Deployments
Whenever Trump doesnāt like the facts, he calls it āfake newsā or does what heās doing here: tries to shoot the messenger by threatening them with a lawsuit. The administration has been sending National Guard troops to various US cities ever since it became clear its mass deportation efforts werenātā¦
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This article is republished fromĀ The ConversationĀ under a Creative Commons license. Read theĀ original article. Political action committees are responsible forĀ nearly two-thirds of all federal election funding, with about US$6.3 billion raised and $4.8 billion spent since January 2025. But their outsā¦
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If Sony thought that the outrage over its decision to make the next PlayStation entirely disc-less was going to dissipate quickly, it was wrong. There are actually multiple organic campaigns to protest Sonyās decision to ditch physical media now. We already talked about the plans for a purchase and ā¦
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Last March it was revealed that the Trump DOJ stabbed its antitrust lawsuit state partners in the back and struck a terrible settlement with Ticketmaster, scuttling a generational opportunity to break up one of the more glaring examples of modern monopoly power. Quite a curious choice for a Trump-adā¦
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Until just recently, Flock never felt it needed to rehabilitate its image, even when several cities were dumping contracts and cameras over persistent surveillance concerns. When cities shut down systems, Flock just kept running. In some cases, it even installed cameras that without proper permits oā¦
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Adult entertainment company FlavaWorks has elevated its legal campaign against the private torrent tracker Gay-Torrents. After the site already closed its doors, it filed a second complaint arguing civil RICO claims against 75 members of the site. The complaint lists a Virginia man as the first nameā¦
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Earlier this month I noted that Elon Muskās Starlink is giving very unsubtle indications that the company wants to jump into the wireless business. I also noted that thereās a very long list of reasons why this isnāt likely to go well for him, ranging from the extremely high cost of network build-ouā¦
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Weāve moved into a new era where the administrationās constant cruelty, violence, and actual murders simply arenāt enough to keep Trump appeased or entertained. ICE is now goosing its arrest numbers by arresting holders of expired visas at domestic airports. Now weāre being treated to additional abjā¦
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Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? 'Mutiny' tops the chart, followed by 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day.' 'The Odyssey' completes the top three.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
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When Anna's Archive suffered widespread downtime earlier this month, many users feared a legal crackdown. Instead, the site was reportedly targeted by a coordinated assault on its network infrastructure. Just as it did after facing $340 million in damages and losing several domains earlier this yearā¦
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This week, MrWilson takes both top spots on the insightful side. In first place, itās a comment about opportunistic ICE arrests: ICE keeps trying to find more victims to prove the false narrative of how many undocumented immigrants there are in the country, so individual agents probably want to makeā¦
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In response to a high-profile GTA 6 leak, Take-Two has requested broad DMCA subpoenas, targeting thousands of Discord users, as well as Microsoft data. The crackdown doesn't stop there. With two additional DMCA subpoenas, the gaming company expanded its information search to X and YouTube. Some of tā¦
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El lanzamiento de LatamGPT, un sistema de procesamiento de lenguaje natural hecho por y para AmĆ©rica Latina nos lleva a analizar dĆ³nde estamos y quĆ© pasos debemos priorizar en esta regiĆ³n en cuanto a innovaciĆ³n tĆ©cnica.
The post La receta para una inteligencia artificial con sabor latinoamericano apā¦
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A Citizen Lab investigation confirms evidence Russian authorities used Cellebrite tool to hack prominent Russian activist Andrey Pivovarov after the Cellebrite claimed to have ceased sales to Russia.
The post Russia used Cellebrite tool to jail activist after company claimed to have ended contract ā¦
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Warner Brothers CEO David Zaslav oversaw years of dysfunction during the last wave of pointless Warner Brothers AT&T and Discovery mergers, which included tens of thousands of brutal layoffs, consistent creative infighting, endlessly higher prices, cancelled programming, and endless chaos. Unlike moā¦
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Of all the things I thought the Trump administration would cause to enter the public lexicon, I certainly did not have screwworms on my list. If you somehow havenāt heard of this, screwworms are actually a fly that lays its eggs by burrowing into the flesh of other animals. Those animals are mostly ā¦
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Iāve spent the better part of a lifetime studying and writing about the way corrupted lawmakers and U.S. telecom giants work hand in hand to erode U.S. broadband standards and mapping so they can obscure the way corruption and monopoly result in limited broadband competition ā resulting in shitty, eā¦
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This news will come as no surprise to anyone. Those who have been following police misconduct revelations for years have seen this happen time and time and time and time again. Those who are in the business of engaging in police misconduct have known for years that itās easy to do and it seldom getsā¦
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The Plantum app is a digital tool that helps to identify plants, diagnose plant diseases, and improve plant care. The app can identify over 40,000 plant species, assess their health, and give specific care advice. Plantum offers a suite of digital tools that help users improve plant care by considerā¦
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Age verification (laws and regulations requiring platforms and websites to assure or estimate that a user seeking to use an online service is of a certain age) is everywhere. At the time of writing, about half the states in the US have some internet age verification law in place, and dangerous propoā¦
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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderationās Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice ā or go straight to the RSS feed. To get extended episodā¦
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Bricks & Minifigs Settles With The Mansells ā Gutting Its Own RICO Case Against āRecklessā Ben
Weāre not going to do a full rehash of the whole Reckless Ben / Bryan Mansell / Bricks & Minifigs saga here. Weāve already got a bunch of stories on it, and there are many other sources. But there is some news in the form of Bricks & Minifigs (BAM) āsettlingā with Mansell ā and [ā¦]
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As youāll recall, RFK Jr., who is totally not checked out of his job at HHS, has managed to sneak in hosting a government sponsored cooking show in between not doing anything about the countryās problems with measles, cyclosporiasis, whooping cough, and so on. Well, two episodes are now out, and theā¦
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A new academic study offers a detailed look inside Telegram's video piracy ecosystem, spotting more than 19,000 pirated titles linked in posts that were viewed more than 4 billion times. The researchers built an AI-powered tool that can spot pirate channels and bots, which were reported to Telegram ā¦
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Cineby, one of the biggest pirate streaming sites on the web, says it will shut its doors on August 26. The site was previously flagged as a notorious piracy operation by Hollywood and has been blocked by court order in several countries. If history is any guide, successors and copycats will line upā¦
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Germany doesn't have a hard benchmark for when a site is structurally infringing. However, the site-blocking clearinghouse CUII stated that illegal content clearly outweighs legal content when at least 81.5 percent of a site is infringing. After KinoGO was recently blocked with a floor of 82.4 perceā¦
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A federal copyright lawsuit targeting six of the most prominent private BitTorrent trackers, including PassThePopcorn, BroadcasTheNet, and HDBits, may be the work of an impostor. Attorneys representing two of the alleged operators told a federal judge they tracked down the real person behind the filā¦
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Nintendo has filed seven DMCA anti-circumvention notices at GitHub in a single day, wiping out more than 400 Switch emulator repositories in one coordinated campaign. The targets include copies of the Suyu emulator, several Yuzu forks, and Skyline, an emulator that shut itself down years ago. The taā¦
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A federal appeals court just made it harder for online services, big and small, to get lawsuits over user speech dismissed early. In California v. Meta, a Ninth Circuit three-judge panel held that the lower courtās denial of Section 230 immunity to Meta is not immediately appealable. The misguided rā¦
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Your location isn't just a pin on a mapāit can expose some of the most intimate details about your life. The value of this information to advertisers and others has turned the location data business into a multi-billion dollar industry. In our latest EFFector newsletter, we're covering aĀ new EFF repā¦
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In a handful of known cases, large social media companies have privately pushed back against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) subpoenas when the agency tried to unmask anonymous users who tracked immigration activities or criticized the government. As ICE engages in a pattern of illegal andā¦
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Brazil's new internet intermediary liability regime is underway. The implementation of changes established by the Supreme Court includes notice and takedown mechanismsĀ and duty of care obligations. Caution is crucial as these measures can create problematicĀ incentives for enforcement overreach and oā¦
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This week, EFF, along with Big Brother Watch, Defend Digital Me, Liberty, Open Rights Group, Race Equality First, Statewatch, and Stopwatch, wrote to Nottinghamshire Police ForceĀ in the UK raising concern about the proposed roll-out of live facial recognition technology (LFR), and called for its immā¦
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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderationās Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice ā or go straight to the RSS feed. To get extended episodā¦
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We, the undersigned civil society organizations, condemn in the strongest possible terms the cyberattack on the World Food Programme (WFP) that took place on May 14, 2026, exposing the personal data of 600,000 Palestinian households in Gaza.
The post Surveilled, targeted, and now hacked: WFP must prā¦
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The easiest way to tell that Flock Safety doesnāt really care that its massive network of ALPR (automatic license plate reader) cameras is being abused by cops to stalk their exes and harass residents is to judge it by its actions. When confronted with court case after court case detailing these allā¦
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If youāre looking for a career in cloud computing, thereās no better place to start than with the AWS certification. Whether you want to be an Architect or a Developer, these certifications open doors to incredible opportunities. But how do you get one? You need to use realistic exam simulators thatā¦
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It still amazes me that there are people out there who think that Donald Trump is a supporter of free speech. It has never been true. Anyone who looks will note that the Trump administration regularly engages in clearly unconstitutional attempts to suppress speech. But because he and his supporters ā¦
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The administration has no legitimate justification for this action. Itās all about inflicting as much literal pain as possible on anyone ICE officers happen to encounter. ImmigrationĀ and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks intended ā¦
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This article is republished fromĀ The ConversationĀ under a Creative Commons license. Read theĀ original article. For decades, terrorism researchers have generally distinguished terrorism from other forms of violence by one defining feature:Ā the intentionĀ toĀ intimidate a wider audienceĀ beyond immediateā¦
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As expected, this didnāt take very long. Earlier this week we pointed out that Donald Trump supplanted RFK Jr. as the worldās most infamous anti-vaxxer when he vomited out a bonkers executive order that reduced the recommended childhood vaccination schedule for American children, pared down which diā¦
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Itās always the same routine. Before each giant merger the companies promise that the new combined entity will deliver the sea, moon, and stars. Weāre told the consolidation will result in untold synergies, massive job growth, and incredible new innovation. Yet in a country too corrupt to have functā¦
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You may have seen news of the recent Fifth Circuit decision, with an opinion written by Judge Andrew Oldham, overturning a lower court ruling, and reinstating highly questionable ID requirements for mail-in ballots. We can debate how this decision blends two great MAGA obsessions, mail-in ballots anā¦
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The Ultimate Unity Game Development Bundle has 44+ hourse of video training designed for aspiring developers. Dive deep into Unity Engine and C# fundamentals, master player physics, and polish your creations with pro-level animations and post-processing. With multi-platform deployment training, itāsā¦
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This is why having a case dismissed with prejudice is important. Trumpās cronies/donors ā who were paid millions to do a job theyād never done before ā failed to bring the Lincoln Reflecting Pool up to spec by July 4th, preventing Trump from taking sole credit for everyone elseās hard work while turā¦
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Sharing instructions on how to bypass court-ordered ISP blocks can be enough to freeze someone's personal savings in a piracy case, a French appeals court has ruled. The order is a mixed victory for Disney, which failed to prove the defendant was the de facto operator of the now-defunct Uptobox siteā¦
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For the first time, a Canadian site-blocking order can target pirate sites that don't exist yet. The Federal Court has ordered ISPs to block thirteen piracy brands including 123Movies and FMovies, and its catch-all "Expanded Scope" allows Hollywood studios and broadcasters to add unrelated sites latā¦
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Three years of litigation that triggered explosive allegations of DMCA "weaponization" and "maximum pain" pressure tactics quietly ended in coordinated settlements. X Corp and several music companies settled the copyright infringement lawsuit and X's antitrust counterstrike, with prejudice. The dismā¦
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Meta has responded to the amended multi-million copyright lawsuit filed by adult film producer Strike 3 Holdings. While flatly denying that it pirated adult films for AI training, Meta confirmed that a key IP address is traced to the home of one of its former data engineers. At the same time, Meta pā¦
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Scammers are allegedly exploiting a flaw in Facebook's 'Edit Post' feature to backdate stolen videos and hijack copyright claims through Meta's Rights Manager. This allows them to monetize content of other creators, while also hitting them with strikes. The problem is at the center of several Indianā¦
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French lawmakers have officially adopted a new sports law that replaces manual domain checks with support for automated, real-time piracy blocking. The system allows for instant blockades during live sports broadcasts, with oversight checks from regulator ARCOM being applied afterward rather than bā¦
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Facing potential U.S. trade sanctions over online piracy, Vietnam is using the recent shutdown and its criminal prosecution of the HiAnime piracy ring as a key line of defense. Notably, Vietnam's response was submitted on the same day that the HiAnime prosecution was made public. While the enforcemeā¦
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Popular pirate streaming sites, including Streamzy and Lordflix, are key targets in a new Indian site-blocking order obtained by HBO and other major studios. The order, which lists over 120 domain names, refines how India deals with new mirror domains that surface after the initial block. The order ā¦
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Operation Offsides seized more than 1,000 pirate streaming domains during the FIFA World Cup. While the enforcement efforts were broadly praised, domain seizures are no silver bullet. In an op-ed, leaders of the MPA and the IPR Center suggest that more is needed to tackle piracy effectively, supportā¦
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After the Supreme Court's Cox ruling reshaped ISPs piracy liability, the record labels behind a $46.8 million verdict against Grande Communications are ready to walk away from the case entirely. Grande won't let them, however. The Internet provider is holding out for a formal win and the millions inā¦
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The European Space Agency's Cosmos portal is dedicated to space exploration. While the organization scans stars and galaxies far away, its own infrastructure is quietly hosting hundreds of PDFs promoting shady IPTV services, ranking them in Google right beside official Gaia mission updates. The SEO ā¦
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Mexican broadcaster TelevisaUnivision has obtained one of the broadest anti-piracy injunctions ever issued by a U.S. federal court. After initially targeting five pirate IPTV streaming operations, the case expanded to cover well over 500 domain names, requiring intermediaries including Cloudflare, Gā¦
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YggTorrent was France's largest torrent site until a hacker gutted it in March. In July, the police arrested twelve suspected operators. That was not the end of it, however. Following a purported takeover, YggTorrent's domains are back online and counting down to a "grand return" on September 1 undeā¦
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Japanese police have arrested an alleged seeder who's connected to the widely popular anime torrent site NYAA. Anti-piracy group CODA tells TorrentFreak that the tool which helped find the suspect didn't monitor the torrent swarms, but analyzed traffic at the index and tracker level. How that identiā¦
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Three years ago the European Commission rejected calls for binding anti-piracy legislation, issuing a 'recommendation' instead. A new study commissioned by the European Parliament concludes that this soft approach has fallen short. It calls for a binding EU Regulation built around the 30-minute blocā¦
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Europe's football seasons kick off again this month, with the Champions League to follow in September. In preparation, Canal+ has secured fourteen site-blocking orders spanning ISPs, DNS resolvers, VPNs, and search engines. It's a broad, coordinated effort ā and one of the last that France will run ā¦
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In May, the UK High Court granted several Hollywood studios a broad "omnibus" site blocking order, allowing them to block rotating networks of pirate sites, without the need to link them to known pirate brands. This breakthrough order was recently cited in a Canadian court order, but remained unavaiā¦
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A California federal court has ordered YouTube to unmask three popular South Korean creators of anime recap channels. The creators filed a motion to quash the DMCA subpoena, requested by Japanese publisher KADOKAWA, but the court rejected the fair use claim, which is now under appeal.
From: TF, forā¦
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MENA's social media regulations give the appearance of legitimacy but threaten to increase state censorship and control.
The post The game is up: how MENAās social media regulations silence and control appeared first on Access Now.
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We, the undersigned organizations and members of the #KeepItOn coalition ā a global network of over 370 organizations from 106 countries working to end internet shutdowns āĀ appeal to you, President Hakainde Hichilema, to ensure that people in Zambia have unfettered access to the internet, digital pā¦
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Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition Ā ā a global network of over 370 organizations from 106 countries working to end internet shutdowns, through an open letter, are urging Zambian authorities to ensure unfettered access to the internet throughout the upcoming election.Ā
The post #KeepItOn: authoriā¦
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Internet shutdowns have to stop. As Access Now marks the 10th anniversary of the #KeepItOn campaign in 2026, weāre reflecting on the path travelled so far ā and the journey still to come as we continue to fight to #KeepItOn around the world.
The post #KeepItOn @10: celebrating a decade of fighting iā¦
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Access Now's Digital Security Helpline and Vita Activa offer holistic digital safety and mental health support for activists.
The post Vita Activa & the Digital Security Helpline join forces to support mental health and digital safety for activists appeared first on Access Now.
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Reversing course, Flock Safetyāthe surveillance technology vendor most known for its extensive network of automated license plate readersāhas announced that it will end a pilot for its acoustic gunshot detection devices to identify signs of āhuman distress.ā
...public pressure can sometimes work to ā¦
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Thereās a new boogeyman in the battles over AI: so-called āstealth crawlers.ā Weāll admit itāthe term āstealth crawlersā sounds quite nefarious. In reality, theyāre anything but.
āStealth crawlersā are simply automated tools to access and collect public web dataāwithout disclosing the userās identitā¦
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A new report from the Government Accounting Office reveals that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to nearly triple the number of surveillance towers along U.S. borders, from the current 830 to 2,300 by 2034.
DHS expects to expend $1 billion in taxpayer dollars for this dangerous expansā¦
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Are you a California resident? Then we've got exciting news for you: there's a tool just for you that lets you take a single, relatively easy step to protect your privacy.Ā
It's called a DROP request. (That's Delete Request and Opt-out Platform, if you're fancy). This one bit of paperwork lets you tā¦
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Intermediary liability lawsĀ around the worldĀ recognizeĀ thatĀ social media platforms, search engines,Ā and other online service providersĀ haveĀ become an integral part of our lives: they shape how we access information, communicate withĀ othersĀ andĀ participateĀ in public debate,Ā andĀ foster innovation onliā¦
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Legal intern Suzanne Castillo was the principal author of this post.
The Fourth Circuit issued a disappointing opinion in U.S. v. Belmonte Cardozo, a case in which EFF filed an amicus brief, alongside the national ACLU, its Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia affiliates, and the Nā¦
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Police departments across the country are lining up to launch drone-as-first-responder (DFR) programs, and hundreds have cleared a necessary hurdle toward making deployment a reality, expanding aerial surveillance and data collection even in areas patrol officers typically can't reach.
As of Februarā¦
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For years, John Deere had actively made repairing their tractors near-impossible for anyone but itself and the few "authorized" repair shopsāregardless of the ability of its customers to actually visit such shops. Now, in a major win for farmers and right to repair advocates, John Deere must soon prā¦
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EFFās first EFFecting Change livestream was all the way back in July of 2024. Maybe you've caught each stream, or maybe youāve only caught a few. Or maybe youāre like me and prefer to listen to conversations like these on your daily commute! Either way, if you want to stay on top of these monthly coā¦
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Update 8/10/2026: Two San Francisco bars that used Patronscan have said they will stop using the system after listening to customersā privacy concerns. EFF applaudsĀ this change and we hope other bars follow suit by returning to ID-checking systems that respect their customersā rights.
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The concept of āsurveillance pricingā is just one part of a much larger problem and business model: corporations maximizing their profits by invading our privacy. The all-too-common business model is to systematically harvest, collate, and store as much of our personal data as possible, and then monā¦
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Watches, bands, and ringsāif you want to digitally monitor your fitness, more companies than ever are selling devices to do it. And more Americans than ever now own at least one wearable health device. But what are the companies that make fitness trackers doing to protect our sensitive data from pryā¦
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This post is available as a printable one page handout in English and Spanish.
Recordings of law enforcement, whether by bystanders or by those directly encountering officers, can be powerful tools of government accountability and can support movements for social change. But recording officers can cā¦
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Update:Ā The Senate Commerce CommitteeĀ voted to advanceĀ this bill on August 5, 2026.Ā EFF continues to oppose the bill, which still needs approval from the full Senate.Ā
Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing education, and the way people search for information. Parents, teenagers, teachers, and ā¦
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Update: On August 5, 2026,Ā The Senate Commerce Committee voted 15-13 to advanceĀ this bill, but the bill did not advance because of a lack ofĀ Senators in attendance.Ā EFF continues to oppose the bill.Ā
The Senate Commerce Committee is set to consider S. 737, the SCREEN Act, a sweeping age-verificationā¦
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California lawmakers have amended A.B. 1709, but the core problem remains: the bill is still a ban on social media access for youth under 16, and it still threatens the privacy and First Amendment rights of all Californians.
Proponents of the bill may argue that the recent amendments represent a comā¦
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It's time. Time for tinkerers, security researchers, hackers, and fellow nerds to gather together in signature black hoodies and utilikilts to beat the heat in Las Vegas for the summer security conferences: BSidesLV, Black Hat USA, and DEF CON.
EFF's lawyers, activists, and technologists are excitedā¦
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Update:Ā The Senate Commerce CommitteeĀ voted to advanceĀ this bill on August 5, 2026.Ā EFF continues to oppose the bill, which still needs approval from the full Senate.Ā
The Senate Commerce Committee is poised to consider the Youth AI Privacy Act, a bill that would require AI companies to create kids-ā¦
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in July issued a proposed policy statement āconcerning the suppression of accuracy in artificial intelligence systems.ā We urge the FTC to withdraw this misguided proposal and instead focus on its core strengths and mission to protect consumers.Ā
The new proposed pā¦
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EFF joined a group of 18 civil society organizations to send a letter encouraging New York Governor Kathy Hochul to vetoĀ Senate Bill 9934A, the New York Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act. The letter states:
While framed as a measure to protect local journalism, this legislation harms free expression aā¦
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Update:Ā The Senate Commerce CommitteeĀ voted to advanceĀ this bill on August 5, 2026.Ā EFF continues to oppose the bill, which still needs approval from the full Senate.Ā
The Senate Commerce Committee is once again considering legislation that would dramatically expand age verification, and undermine pā¦
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In the scorching heat of every Las Vegas summer, EFF joins thousands of hackers, makers, policy analysts, and activists for the world's largest computer security gathering. If you're there during this summer security week, be sure to say hello to us at BSides Las Vegas, Black Hat Briefings, and DEF ā¦
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Across mobile platforms, advertising companies provide developers with software development kits (SDKs) that make it easy to monetize their apps. But those same SDKs can automatically feed usersā location data into ad systems that location data brokers use to track people. Many developers may not evā¦
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Developers Must Beware of Ad Libraries that Betray Usersā PrivacySAN FRANCISCO ā Some software development kits (SDKs) provided by advertising companies to help developers monetize their apps are automatically feeding usersā location data into systems that location data brokers use to track people, ā¦
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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has endorsed a commonsense technical interpretation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a law not usually given to such interpretation. Amazon had sued Perplexity AI to try to shut down its Comet browser, claiming the browserās optional agentic AI āAssistanā¦
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The Senate Commerce Committee will vote this week on several censorious and privacy invasive bills: KOSA, the SCREEN Act, Youth AI Privacy Act, and CHATBOT Act. While we appreciate that the Committee is taking the time to look at these bills separately, itās still impossible to ignore the message Coā¦
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Access to accurate information about reproductive and maternal health can be critical. But on Meta's platforms, simply talking about prescription medication, abortion care, or one's own medical experiences can be enough to trigger content removals and account restrictions.
That's why EFF recently suā¦
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Imagine if McDonaldās could use trademark law to control how you use the term āfast food.ā Or if the Canadian government could stop you from using the word āCanadaā in the title of a book about the country and its people. That wouldnāt just be absurd; it would be an unacceptable obstacle to criticisā¦
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WeāveĀ had a few questions from EFF supporters lately, asking whether the images we use on our blog posts, or onĀ donation and shop items, have been created with AI image generators.Ā WeādĀ like to answer these questions and clarify our internal policyĀ regardingĀ image creation.Ā
EFF images are all made ā¦
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Flock Safety, the embattled vendor of mass surveillance technology, has rolled out a handful of new reforms intended to appease the justified nationwide anger that has seen scores of towns cancel or suspend their contracts with the company for automated license plate readers (ALPRs). The reforms areā¦
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Bari Weiss is seeking out friendly interviewers at the New York Times to try and ācalm the firestorm engulfing her leadership of CBS News.ā By āleadershipā of course they mean censoring stories critical of the president, letting Benjamin Netanyahu pick his own interviewer (who he knows wonāt press hā¦
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One of the key tools in the tool belt of the anti-vaxxer has long been VAERS, the voluntarily reporting system for adverse events following vaccinations. People who donāt really understand how any of this works often get very, very confused about what VAERS is and is not. It does not contain confirmā¦
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To be clear, the FTC under Donald Trump and new boss Andrew Ferguson has been a dangerous embarrassment. Whether itās the firing of both Democratic Commissioners, the politically motivated investigations, the extremist attacks on trans people, the agencyās useless attacks on porn, or its efforts to ā¦
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Itās no secret that Iām a fan of developmental psychologist Candice Odgers. Iāve mentioned her and her work on the site many times, and she was a guest on my podcast as well. She actually has expertise and has done the work to look at the impact of social media on kids. In many ways [ā¦]
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The All-in-One Adobe Creative Cloud Suite Course Bundle has 10 courses designed to teach you about video editing, animations, photography, design, and more. Courses cover popular Adobe products like Lightroom, After Effects, Photoshop, and Adobe XD. The bundle is on sale for $30. Note: The Techdirt ā¦
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Another senior Trump administration official is gleefully showing off his true colors: The current general counsel for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published an opinion column with the Heritage Foundationās news outlet The Daily Signal calling for stronger obscenity regulation.Ā From ā¦
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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderationās Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice ā or go straight to the RSS feed. To get extended episodā¦
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This story wasĀ originally publishedĀ by ProPublica.Ā Republished under aĀ CC BY-NC-ND 3.0Ā license. Last month, my colleagues and I published anĀ investigation into a Texas oil refinery startup, America First Refining, that had secretly gotten investment from Donald Trump Jr. We discovered a saga involviā¦
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The long-rumored layoffs at Xbox have come and they are massive. We just recently discussed the mess that Microsoftās Xbox division has become. An internal email that was sent to staff by CEO Asha Sharma laid out just how bad things were, essentially preparing the staff for the forthcoming staffing ā¦
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Pearson's anti-piracy vendor inadvertently used a DMCA notice to take down the official GitHub code repository of Pearson's own best-selling author, Paul Deitel. The prominent computer science educator pushed back, noting that the sender has "no idea of the damage they're doing" by taking down critiā¦
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Google has told the European Commission that pirate site blocking causes "significant harm" and should not target DNS resolvers, VPNs or shared IPs. The submission was filed days before a U.S. congressional hearing signaled that American site blocking legislation is closer than ever to introduction.ā¦
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Last week, the House voted on the KIDS Act, a disjointed package of legislation that seeks to control Americansā web browsing and private messaging. The package combines a revised version of the Kids Online Safety ActĀ (KOSA), with several other internet bills, study bills, reporting requirements, anā¦
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Last May, EFF reported that a sheriffās office in Texas searched data from more than 83,000 automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras to track down a woman suspected of self-managing an abortion. ALPRs are promoted as tools for keeping communities safe by finding missing persons and locating stoā¦
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This post is part 2 in a series about automated content moderation. Read the first post here.
When whistleblower Frances Haugen leaked a set of documents from Meta in 2020, among the revelations was a jarring statistic: The companyās algorithms designed to detect terrorist content incorrectly deleteā¦
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In my first weeks as Executive Director of EFF, Iāve been reminded every day how consequential this moment is in determining what kind of future we will have.
We are on the edge. What each one of us steps up to do ā with our expertise, energy, and resources ā will determine whether our future is onā¦
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Good news!(?) Itās good news of sorts, so weāll go with a qualified āgood news!ā here. Thereās a little table setting that needs to be done to explain why itās better now than it was before the Fifth Circuit Appeals Court continued ingratiating itself to race-motivated tyranny. I realize thatās not ā¦