Notices by Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social), page 3

Nearly a dozen communities across the U.S. have forced their local police departments to allow civilian oversight of surveillance technology, ending an era of secrecy. When will your community join them? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/cambridge-ma-joins-growing-ranks-cities-requiring-civilian-control-police

Dozens of MEPs are undecided on how to vote on the EU's disastrous #CopyrightDirective. Call now and tell them to delete #Article13 and #Article11 https://saveyourinternet.eu/act/

Over four million Internet users have signed the petition against the #CopyrightDirective, and today, US sites including @Reddit and EU sites including Germany's @Wikipedia protested it even further, with blackouts and error messages. https://gizmodo.com/wikipedia-and-reddit-stage-eleventh-hour-protest-agains-1833464638

The EU will vote on the #CopyrightDirective during the March 25 week session, likely on March 27. That leaves you with only a few days to contact your MEP to insist that they vote against it. https://saveyourinternet.eu

RT @cypurrnyc: #FixIT from @eff ! Check out their suggestions on what companies need to do to keep our info safe!

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/announcing-fix-it-already

On March 23, Europeans are taking to the street to tell the European Parliament to reject Article 13—will you be there? https://www.savetheinternet.info/demos

When your phone is backed up to iCloud, Apple itself can still read your messages and data.

EFF thinks privacy should also matter to the backup servers. It's time for Apple to let you encrypt your backups so that only you have the key. #FixItAlready https://fixitalready.eff.org/apple/#/

How easy is it for a third party to identify your browser? Find out with Panopticlick. https://panopticlick.eff.org/

.@davidakaye is the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression. He's published an urgent warning that #Article13 of the EU #CopyrightDirective will be a disaster for free expression, especially for artists whom copyright is supposed to protect.
https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=24298&LangID=E

Breaking: According to @nytimes, the government’s program of collecting hundreds of millions of telephone records using Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act has been shut down—at least temporarily. It's time for this mass surveillance program to end permanently.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/us/politics/nsa-phone-records-program-shut-down.html

China’s leaders seem to care little for the privacy, or the freedom, of millions of its citizens. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/massive-database-leak-gives-us-window-chinas-digital-surveillance-state

We're encrypting the web with HTTPS Everywhere and Certbot, and we need your help to do it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdnpNJZVUE0

Developers: ETS is a planned weakening of the TLS encryption standard. Don’t use it, don’t implement it, and don’t standardize it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/ets-isnt-tls-and-you-shouldnt-use-it

Take a look at the San Francisco District Attorney's map of thousands of surveillance cameras across the city, uncovered this month through a public records request: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/san-francisco-district-attorneys-10-most-surveilled-places

Data brokers have been building powerful tools to track you everywhere, and the consequences are dire https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-campaign-tech-privacy-20190220-story.html

Even the massive entertainment companies that lobbied for #Article13 have joined the opposition to its current version. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/worst-possible-version-eu-copyright-directive-has-sparked-german-uprising

This is the last moment to make your voice heard. Together, we’re going to make sure that every MEP knows that the voters of Europe are watching them and taking note of how they vote. https://saveyourinternet.eu https://t.co/PTpYj0Ti7S

Europe: The final text of the Copyright Directive is even worse than we'd feared. Take action now. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/final-version-eus-copyright-directive-worst-one-yet

From a personal privacy perspective, what happens if one entity owns most of the devices in your home?

"It can form a very complete profile of you as a person in both the physical and digital world." https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/amazon-acquisition-eero-routers-privacy

Australia's war on encryption begins to target its own cryptography researchers (and, coincidentally, a key critic of current Australian crypto policy) https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/657157/government-clamping-down-on-security-research-academic-says/