Notices by Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social), page 6

Good idea: Having a summer barbecue.

Bad idea: giving unchecked power to shoot down private drones to agencies that are notorious for their lack of transparency. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/07/dont-give-dhs-free-rein-shoot-down-private-drones

What drones can be used for:

☑️Journalism

☑️Transparency

☑️Photography

What DHS wants to do to drones:

☑️Track

☑️Disrupt

☑️Destroy

Don’t give DHS the power to shoot down your friendly neighborhood drone. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/07/dont-give-dhs-free-rein-shoot-down-private-drones

EFF is shining a light on the powerful surveillance technologies used by local law enforcement. /7 https://www.eff.org/sls

EFF defends your right to access the Internet free from throttling, blocking, and other forms of insidious control by telecom giants, by standing up for #NetNeutrality. /6 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/even-though-net-neutrality-protection-end-today-congress-can-still-act-save-them

Let’s say facial recognition improves—that it produces correct matches 100% of the time. Then what? Well, it means we can’t walk around “without the government knowing who we are, where we are, and who we’re talking to,” explains EFF’s Jen Lynch. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-26/ai-has-a-race-problem

This week, the EU voted to destroy the Internet as we know it, and on Sunday, Berliners are taking to the streets. Tell your friends! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/wednesday-eu-committee-voted-break-internet-sunday-berliners-take-streets-say-no

BREAKING: The EU JURI committee has passed #Article13. This requires sites to filter all submissions against a database of copyrighted works—creating a #CensorshipMachine that puts thousands of daily activities and millions of Internet users at the mercy of algorithmic filters.

BREAKING: The EU Parliament's JURI committee has approved #Article11. This #LinkTax will hurt those who use the Internet for sharing, punish projects like Wikipedia, and “poses a significant threat to an informed and literate society," according to the research community.

RT @eff: Everyone needs to know just how wildly dangerous the European Union’s vote this week could be for the global Internet, and the und…

The inventor of the World Wide Web, the co-founder of Wikipedia, and the founder of the Internet Archive agree: "Article 13 takes an unprecedented step towards the transformation of the Internet...into a tool for the automated surveillance and control of its users." /14

The Internet’s founders agree: European lawmakers should reject #Article13, a proposal that would require Internet platforms to install copyright filters that will surveil and censor their users. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/internet-luminaries-ring-alarm-eu-copyright-filtering-proposal

Join Vint Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee, Radia Perlman, Mitchell Baker, and Jimmy Wales today: write to your European MP and tell them to #DeleteArt13 , the EU's disastrous copyright censorship machine. https://saveyourinternet.eu/

BREAKING: An open letter to the EU from @vgcerf, @timberners_lee and dozens of Internet pioneers and luminaries warns #Article13's copyright filters would break the modern Internet. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/internet-luminaries-ring-alarm-eu-copyright-filtering-proposal

Know a Javascript developer looking to make a difference (and have fun doing it)?

We're hiring a Staff Technologist to lead development of HTTPS Everywhere! Share the opportunity for this dream job with your networks, and spread the message far and wide: https://www.eff.org/opportunities/jobs/staff-technologist-javascript-developer

Several Google employees have left the company, writing that continued involvement in the Pentagon's Project Maven deserves more sober reflection and public debate https://gizmodo.com/google-employees-resign-in-protest-against-pentagon-con-1825729300

Move the file “GPGMail.mailbundle” to the trash, either by dragging it to the trash icon on the dock or by right-clicking it and selecting "Move to Trash" https://t.co/RrxgheOb2s

Do you use PGP In the email client Outlook?
Due to security vulnerabilities in Outlook with PGP (and GPG), you should follow these instructions to disable the link between the two. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/disabling-pgp-outlook-gpg4win

Brooklyn: Give mom the gift of privacy. Join our Electronic Frontier Alliance ally @cypurrnyc on Mother's Day for a privacy workshop covering the GDPR, the CLOUD Act, data retention and privacy by design https://www.eff.org/event/cryptoparty-hosted-cypurr-4.

The FCC announced that the end to #NetNeutrality protections will happen on June 11. Tell your senators to vote to stop them.
https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-to-reinstate-the-open-internet-order

Prison phone company Securus can get real-time location data for nearly any cellphone in the country—an enormous privacy invasion https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/senator-wyden-calls-fcc-investigate-real-time-location-data-sharing-all-cellphone