#Privacy#TornadoCash#FreeSpeech#DigitalRights#Blockchain: "The conviction of Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev is sending ripple effects through the blockchain industry, which is bracing for a long-foreseen chilling effect.
This is likely to deter devs from building privacy and security enhancing digital tools, said Aaron Mackey, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco.
“Holding a developer of beneficial tools responsible for the wrongdoing of others is short-sighted and harms everyone’s privacy online,” Mackey told DL News."
Women and LGBTI activists in Thailand have been unlawfully targeted with digital surveillance and online harassment, including the use of Pegasus spyware, by state and non-state actors, in an effort to silence them
@eff is looking for " physical examples of specific CDMA Sprint Phones" for a specific case. #digitalrights, can you help? I can give you the specific email contact if you can help.
#StopKillingGames petition update:
🇬🇧 : The UK Petition is now 20% towards requiring a parliamentary debate. With an election looming, an optimistic view would be that opposition parties could recognise this as an issue and make pledges. That might be unlikely, but still worth trying to push for 80K more signatures, and there's many months to achieve this. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/659071/
🇦🇺 : The Australian petition is now live. Their site says petitions need at least 50 for referral. It's met that already, but the more the better. It closes in just over a week. https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6080
I tried to do a Tik Tok video about how the online safety act would censor content and it was ironically throttled for mentioning categories that would be censored. I think we ought to try and use different platforms to reach people about digital rights issues but those platforms don’t make it easy to do so. #censorship#digitalrights#algorithm
#EU#USA#Innovation#DigitalRights#TechPolicy#TechRegulation#DigitalEconomy : "This Article challenges the common view that more stringent regulation of the digital economy inevitably compromises innovation and undermines technological progress. This view, vigorously advocated by the tech industry, has shaped the public discourse in the United States, where the country’s thriving tech economy is often associated with a staunch commitment to free markets. US lawmakers have also traditionally embraced this perspective, which explains their hesitancy to regulate the tech industry to date. The European Union has chosen another path, regulating the digital economy with stringent data privacy, antitrust, content moderation, and other digital regulations designed to shape the evolution of the tech economy towards European values around digital rights and fairness. According to the EU’s critics, this far-reaching tech regulation has come at the cost of innovation, explaining the EU’s inability to nurture tech companies and compete with the US and China in the tech race. However, this Article argues that the association between digital regulation and technological progress is considerably more complex than what the public conversation, US lawmakers, tech companies, and several scholars have suggested to date. For this reason, the existing technological gap between the US and the EU should not be attributed to the laxity of American laws and the stringency of European digital regulation. Instead, this Article shows there are more foundational features of the American legal and technological ecosystem that have paved the way for US tech companies’ rise to global prominence—features that the EU has not been able to replicate to date."
The browser you use to explore the Internet is an important choice when it comes to privacy in a world of surveillance capitalism.
Yet most asylum seekers and refugees who we surveyed with Positive Action in Housing weren’t aware of alternatives to Google. Google tracks online activity to amass a data profile of its users that can be sold to advertisers. Other browsers prioritise #privacy with enhanced options to block tracking.
A reminder to Swifties and non-Swifties alike to regularly review your phone's location sharing settings.
Remember: the deepest privacy threat from mobile phones is the way that they announce your whereabouts all day (and all night) long.
Stalking your ex using phone location services isn’t cool. Neither is the way that governments and companies use your phone's data to determine where you've been. Learn more about protecting your privacy, and how EFF helps:
X has #blocked the account of @KhaledBeydoun on its platform in India.
Software Freedom Law Centre, India (SFLC.in) has been reporting on the blocking of social media accounts and #websites. Please #report any blocking cases you may have seen to us.
Send us an email at mail@sflc.in or mention @sflcin on social media platforms.
As #sustainability & #digitalisation are increasingly being seen as interconnected by EU lawmakers, @edri
commissioned a study on this critical issue 🌱
2/3 The study by explores the possibilities of navigating our digital societies during a #ClimateCrisis, especially as tech solutions are - often erroneously - being touted as the answer 🙅♀️
Access to appropriate devices and the Internet transforms asylum seekers’ lives.
ORG and Positive Action Housing's survey shows the importance of digital rights, enabling people to communicate, get resources, pursue education and connect with support networks.