Emory Roane

“Do the same thing, but with a dirty word thrown in for good measure” seems to be a popular Dem communications strategy right now and I don’t think it’s going to resonate as well as they’d like.

Happy Internet Archive Day to all who celebrate.

The Internet Archive is hitting its trillionth webpage archived, and - as a long time collaborator and historian of both web archiving more generally as well as the Internet Archive specifically - am happy to join them for this milestone.

There is so much unknown about how ICE intends to use Paragon's terrifying no-click surveillance spyware. We appreciate members of the House Oversight Committee for sending this letter and trying to find out how this spyware will be used.

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Attorney General Bonta Sues El Cajon for Illegally Sharing License SAN DIEGO — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today filed a lawsuit against the City of El Cajon over its refusal to comply with state law prohibiting the sharing of license plate data with

BREAKING: California Attorney General sues the El Cajon Police Department over illegal sharing of data from Flock Safety automated license plate readers. oag.ca.gov/news/press-...

"just upload a scanned image of your drivers license no big deal"

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

oh mainly just @hypervisible.blacksky.app's surveillance beat

like every day there seems to be a dozen new startups that are like "our business plan is to create a surveillance platform monopoly primarily as an attractive acquisition target for some even bigger surveillance platform monopoly"

SESTA/FOSTA backfired miserably.

The UK's age verification law backfired miserably.

The TikTok ban is backfiring miserably.

So of course @blumenthal.senate.gov has decided now is a great time to revive the terribly written Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) which will ... spoiler... backfire miserably

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising

www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

Fucking grim. Jesus.

And through sheer force of will, Electronic Arts manages to become even worse.

I hear the President has decreed that it is possibly a crime to refer to Americans as "fascists," but "fascism" is a word that has a relatively clear meaning that's worth understanding. Here's how an official publication of the US Army defined "fascism" in 1945.

California, Tell Governor Newsom: Regulate AI Police Reports and Sign Californians should urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign S.B. 524: a common-sense bill that takes important first-step reforms to regulate police reports written by generative AI. This is crucial, as

California’s S.B. 524, which puts important guardrails on police using AI to write police reports, has passed through the statehouse. Now it’s time for us to tell Governor Newsom to sign it into law. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

California, Tell Governor Newsom: Regulate AI Police Reports and Sign Californians should urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign S.B. 524: a common-sense bill that takes important first-step reforms to regulate police reports written by generative AI. This is crucial, as

The lack of regulation is allowing untransparent and potentially harmful technologies, like AI-written police reports, to flourish. California, tell Governor Newsom he must sign S.B. 524. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

To know more about Real Time Bidding and mass surveillance, see: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Crucial Information About Abortion Access Is Getting Censored on Social Media A new report reveals nearly 100 instances of anti-abortion censorship across TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and LinkedIn.

More excellent coverage of @eff.org's Stop Censoring Abortion project! www.jezebel.com/crucial-info...

as someone whose been through several visa / green card / citizenship processes in this country, there are so many questions that are designed to get you to commit perjury for a quick exile, that I am not at all surprised.

the fascist are in charge, and the law bends in their direction. whose next.

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

Max Schrems, jurist: ‘The promise of the cloud was that everything would be much cheaper, but it turns out that it functions as a monopoly’ The Austrian activist who won data protection guarantees for Europeans believes the EU must achieve true digital autonomy

"In Europe, we have a law that says there can be no more than six minutes of advertising per hour on television. Why the hell can’t we regulate social media advertising and say that not more than 10% of your feed can be ads?" 💯 english.elpais.com/technology/2...

Feels invasive because it is invasive.

At this stage, however, I’m just keen to get the toy out of my house, because it’s creeping me out. While Curio says it doesn’t sell children’s personal information, all the conversations are sent to third parties to transcribe the speech to text for the app. The transcripts aren’t that sensitive because Emma is only four, but it still feels invasive. With unknown entities involved, it’s impossible to say where my kid’s conversations are ending up.

What.

The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.

Logging off is an option

beware of people who want to "protect" the children but are vehemently opposed to empowering children, giving them information so they can have agency, teaching them about consent, and actually listening to them

If you are collecting sensitive information about users, like, I dunno...their sexual orientation...you need to take securing user data seriously.

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EFF has been consistent in their position and remains so. www.eff.org/copyright