EFFector 36.12
Stopping the Harms of Automated Decision Making
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In our 814th issue:
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Protect Online Privacy and Free Speech. Become an EFF member today!
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Top Features
Imagine a company you recently applied to work at used an artificial intelligence program to analyze your application to help expedite the review process. Does that creep you out? Well, you’re not alone.
EFF, Just Futures Law, and 140 other groups have sent a letter to Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that the Department of Homeland Security must stop using artificial intelligence tools in the immigration system.
EFF Updates
We are deeply concerned that this is a politically motivated prosecution.
EFF is closely monitoring the situation in France in which Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov was charged with having committed criminal offenses, most of them seemingly related to the operation of Telegram. This situation has the potential to pose a serious danger to security, privacy, and freedom of expression for Telegram’s 950 million users.
Copyright law is not a tool to punish or silence critics. That’s why EFF is helping defend an Indiana man against a copyright infringement suit by LifeWise Inc.
The Constitution prohibits dragnet device searches, especially when those searches are designed to uncover political speech, EFF explained in a friend-of-the-court brief filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Thank you to our supporters for helping us to kill this wrongheaded bill, especially those of you who took the time to reach out to your legislators.
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Announcements
Tune into the livestream of the EFF Awards ceremony, 6:30 pm PT on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024 at the Golden Gate Club in San Francisco’s Presidio. Carolina Botero, Connecting Humanity, and 404 Media will receive the 2024 EFF Awards for their vital work in ensuring that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people, and Fansplaining co-host and The Rec Center co-curator Elizabeth Minkel will deliver the keynote address.
Do you know what to do if you’re subjected to a search or arrest at a protest? Join EFF at 10 a.m. PT Thursday, Oct. 17 for a free livestream discussion about how to protect your electronic devices and digital assets before, during, and after a demonstration. Learn how you can avoid confiscation or forced deletion of media, and keep your movements and associations private.
EFF is excited to be at TechCrunch Disrupt, Oct. 28-30 in San Francisco, for the first time! Stop by the EFF booth in the Expo Hall to chat with our team about the latest developments in defending digital freedom for all. You can grab some of the latest EFF swag when you take advantage of our membership specials or donate! Digital freedom supporters can even get a 35% discount off of any ticket type by using code "eff35" when registering online. See you there!
Job Openings
We’re seeking applications for the Spring 2025 Intern Class! EFF’s legal internships provide law students with a unique opportunity to develop valuable skills and real-world experience while working with a nationally-recognized public interest law firm. Legal interns learn from and assist EFF’s staff attorneys in all aspects of litigation, including legal research, factual investigation, and drafting of memoranda and briefs, while also helping with policy research, client counseling, and the development of public education materials (e.g., blog posts). EFF’s docket ranges across the
technological and legal landscape, from online fair use of copyrighted materials to illegal government spying.
MiniLinks
Armed with two rooted Android phones and three Wi-Fi hot spots running CSS-detection software developed by EFF, WIRED conducted a first-of-its-kind wireless survey of the signals around the Democratic National Convention.
Forcing residents in neighborhoods with higher crime rates to live under constant, all-seeing digital scrutiny will neither make them safer nor patch up their rocky relationship with the police who are sworn to protect and serve them, EFF’s Matthew Guariglia wrote.
The treaty’s inadequate human-rights safeguards and compliance monitoring mechanisms create a high likelihood that the powerful global cooperation tools it creates will be abused, EFF’s Katitza Rodriguez wrote.
“Rather than thank this individual for coming forward and actually explaining to the public that this is a significant problem, the city has resorted to basically violating his First Amendment rights and claiming that what he’s done is some sort of illegal act,” EFF’s Aaron Mackey said.
"In a regime where you need a personhood credential to be able to log in, this actually seems like kind of a custom-built choke point for governments to prevent certain people from getting online," EFF’s Jacob Hoffman-Andrews said.
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