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This extraordinarily misguided and speech-chilling call to label social media platforms as harmful to adolescents is shameful fear-mongering that lacks scientific evidence and turns the nation’s top physician into a censor.
Did you know Disney’s Steamboat Willie entered the public domain this year ? Since its 1928 debut, U.S. Congress has made multiple changes to copyright law , extending Disney’s ownership of this cultural icon for almost a century. A century. Creativity should spark more creativity. That’s not how intellectual property laws are supposed to work. In the United States, these laws were designed to give creators a financial incentive to contribute to science and culture. Then eventually the law makes...
California Assemblymember Phil Ting has introduced A.B. 1814 , a bill that would supposedly regulate police use of facial recognition technology . The problem is that it would do little to actually change the status quo of how police use this invasive and problematic technology. Police use of facial recognition poses a massive risk to civil liberties, privacy, and even our physical health as the technology has been known to wrongfully sic armed police on innocent people – particularly Black...
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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.
