Tag: eff
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Israel’s Birthday, Age Of Rage, Patent Trolls (Audio)
This week on the New World Next Week: Israel celebrates its birthday by spilling the blood of unarmed protesters; a think piece on cliodynamics asks if we are destined for an age of rage; and the EFF slays the patent trolls.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Israel Celebrates Birthday With Gaza Massacre (Video)
This week on the New World Next Week: Israel celebrates its birthday by spilling the blood of unarmed protesters; a think piece on cliodynamics asks if we are destined for an age of rage; and the EFF slays the patent trolls.
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#MorningMonarchy: February 13, 2018
Olympics hack, Twitter stacks and AI conversation hearts + this day in history w/European Vega rocket launch and our song of the day by Wye Oak on your Morning Monarchy for February 13, 2018.
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#MorningMonarchy: August 22, 2017
Eclipsing history, deleting history and CovertBand + this day in history w/Ruby Ridge and our song of the day by Tobacco on your Morning Monarchy for August 22, 2017.
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#Solutions: ‘Let’s Encrypt’ Aims to Boost Internet Security
from techtimes.com: Companies are becoming increasingly concerned about security. In this vein, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has partnered with Akamai, Cisco, IdenTrust and Mozilla to create a new service called Let’s Encrypt. Together, the companies are known as the Internet Security Research Group. The group’s goal is to make encryption easier and make unencrypted web…
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“The Day We Fight Back”: #StopTheNSA Protest Declared for Feb 11
from slashgear.com: In honor of the late programmer and activist Aaron Swartz and in light of information contained in documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the EFF, Free Press, Demand Progress, and other entities will be holding a day of anti-NSA mass spying protests on February 11. The day is being called “The Day We Fight…
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EFF, ACLU Lawsuit Against LAPD ALPRs Begins
from blacklistednews.com: Last Friday the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California filed the opening brief in their lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Sheriff Department. The lawsuit deals with how the law enforcement agencies are using Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPR) to…
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US Ignites Cyber Warfare Through Stuxnet, Flame Malware
from brasschecktv.com: “Do as I say, not as I do,” is the very definition of authoritarianism. In instigating cyber attacks while simultaneously declaring state sponsored cyber attacks to be “acts of war” it is more than just hypocritical, it could lead to a real military war. It also demonstrates that the administration is not truly…
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Clock Counts Down As Google Privacy Change Looms
For the congenital procrastinators out there–and yes, you know who you are–don’t complain about not being warned. In less than 24 hours, Google will hit the switch and start linking your data across the company’s e-mail, video, social-networking, and other services.
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electronic frontier foundation: know your rights
It’s a sign of the times, but, you may want to know your digital rights before the suits knock at your door. The Electronic Frontier Foundation website provides a Q&A section with helpful tips. The best tips are the same whenever dealing with law enforcement: 1) don’t consent to a search 2) don’t answer questions…
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FBI Tracking “Suspects” Online
A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request made in 2007 by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), reveals FBI using secret spyware.
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end of the internet as we know it?
US Senate Committee in a lame duck Congressional session passed recently the Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act (COICA). Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group, calls it an ‘internet censorship bill’. “Clearly this was funded by media cartels, but this has a lot more to do with Internet censorship as it does about copyright…
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US Declares iPhone ‘Jailbreaking’ Legal Over Apple Objections
Federal regulators lifted a cloud of uncertainty when they announced it was lawful to hack or “jailbreak” an iPhone, declaring Monday there was “no basis for copyright law to assist Apple in protecting its restrictive business model.”
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#NewWorldNextWeek: NLE 2010, Email Spying & Blogging = Terror
NLE 2010, Email Spying & Blogging = Terror // Why is FEMA Trying to Cover Up National Level Exercise 2010? // Yahoo Beats Feds in Email Privacy Battle // Internet Journalism Is ‘Sort Of Like Terrorism’