“Law enforcement really likes license plate readers because of the lack of restrictions on that data. They don’t feel like they need a warrant. Oftentimes there are no restrictions whatsoever on what they search,” EFF’s Dave Maass told @404 Media.
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ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows
Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nati...
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"Companies should not use EULAs to strip people of rights that we normally associate with ownership, like the right to tinker with or modify their own personal devices," EFF’s Tori Noble told @Ars Technica.
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Why console makers can legally brick your game console
If the ability [to brick a console] is there, someone will want to 'see how it goes.'"
“Huge public groundswells of mistrust and anger about excessive corporate power" across political lines are prompting global antitrust probes into big tech – perhaps forcing a reckoning after years of enshittification, EFF’s @Cory Doctorow told @Ars Technica.
Ars Technica
Meta hypes AI friends as social media’s future, but users want real connections
Two visions for social media’s future pit real connections against AI friends.
The Copyright Office’s AI training report is legally flawed and tilted toward rightsholders. But firing Shira Perlmutter and Carla Hayden isn’t the fix—it just deepens the politicization.
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The U.S. Copyright Office’s Draft Report on AI Training Errs on Fair Use
Within the next decade, generative AI could join computers and electricity as one of the most transformational technologies in history, with all of...
In memoriam: Cryptome co-founder John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was one of the early, under-recognized heroes of the digital age.
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In Memoriam: John L. Young, Cryptome Co-Founder
John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was among the first people to see the need for an online library of official secrets, ...
Congress is bringing back the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). It doesn’t protect kids—it gives government officials power to pressure platforms to take down lawful speech.
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The Kids Online Safety Act Will Make the Internet Worse for Everyone
Lawmakers who support KOSA today are choosing to trust the current administration, and future administrations, to define what youth—and to some d...
The way that encrypted chat apps handle backups can be a loophole, so knowing how they work—and how those you communicate with use this feature—is very important.
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How Signal, WhatsApp, Apple, and Google Handle Encrypted Chat Backups
Encrypted chat apps like Signal and WhatsApp are one of the best ways to keep your digital conversations as private as possible. But if you’re no...
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CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers
Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ s...
Flock’s invasive new tool “will certainly help to bring expanded surveillance powers to police departments of all sizes that never needed this much information on any random person who happens to drive by,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton warned @404 Media.
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License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows
Flock, which has license plate readers (LPRs) all around the country, wants police to be able to “jump from LPR to person,” according to leaked...