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EFFector Vol. 36, No. 14 Wednesday, November 13, 2024
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A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
ISSN 1062-9424
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In our 816th issue:
* The 2024 U.S. Election is Over. EFF is Ready for What's Next.
The dust of the U.S. election is settling, and we want you to know that EFF
is ready for whatever’s next. We’ll continue to advance our mission of
user privacy, free expression, and innovation, regardless of the obstacles.
We will hit the ground running.
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* EFF Lawsuit Discloses Documents Detailing Government’s Social Media Surveillance of Immigrants
Despite rebranding a federal program that surveils the social media
activities of immigrants and foreign visitors to a more benign name, the
government agreed to spend more than $100 million to continue monitoring
people’s online activities, records disclosed to EFF show.
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EFF Updates
* U.S. Border Surveillance Towers Have Always Been Broken
We’ve known for decades that surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico border is a
wasteful endeavor that is ill-equipped to respond to an ill-defined problem.
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* How Many U.S. Persons Does Section 702 Spy On? The ODNI Needs to Come Clean.
EFF has joined with 23 other organizations to demand that the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence tell the public how many U.S. persons’
communications have been hoovered up, and are now sitting on a government
server for law enforcement to unconstitutionally sift through at their
leisure.
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* New EFF Report Provides Guidance to Ensure Human Rights are Protected Amid Government Use of AI in Latin America
We’re providing guidance on what governments must look out for when
assessing whether and how to adopt artificial intelligence and automated
decision-making systems for decisions that can affect people’s rights.
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* EU to Apple: “Let Users Choose Their Software”; Apple: “Nah”
Our friends at Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) have filed an important
brief with the European Commission, formally objecting to Apple’s
ridiculous "plan" to comply with EU interoperability requirements.
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* Salt Typhoon Hack Shows There's No Security Backdoor That's Only For The "Good Guys"
…yeah, we told you so.
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* "Is My Phone Listening To Me?"
The short answer is no, probably not! But, with EFF’s new site, Digital
Rights Bytes, we go in-depth on this question—and many others.
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* Audio Version of EFFector Newsletter
Here’s an audio version of EFFector. We hope you enjoy it!
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Announcements
* EFF Thanks Its Organizational Members
Thank you to Atsign [1] and Zamzar [2], EFF organizational members whose
support helps us defend digital privacy, free speech, and innovation. If your
organization would like to support EFF as a member, please visit
eff.org/thanks [3].
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Job Openings
* Associate Director of Institutional Support
EFF is looking for a full-time Associate Director of Institutional Support to
develop and implement foundation and corporate donor engagement and
fundraising strategies while also stewarding and cultivating foundation
relationships. Your portfolio will include relationships with foundation
partners and prospects, while your direct report will manage our corporate
relationships.
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MiniLinks
- Trump Might Get Unfettered Surveillance Powers. How Did We Get Here?
“The only thing that really stands between a president misusing all of
these authorities and not are the individuals who work in these agencies, who
have sets of rules and standards that they follow,” EFF's Cindy Cohn said.
“But one of the things we have seen, on the side of President Trump, is
that is something he is trying to eliminate.”
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- They made a public Rolodex of our faces. Here’s how I tried to get out.
EFF's Adam Schwartz explained how PimEyes and similar facial recognition
technologies pose a threat to anonymity, calling them “deeply, deeply
dangerous.”
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- Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics
EFF's Eva Galperin said she was "extremely concerned about fishing
expeditions, about dragnet surveillance of people crossing state lines in
order to go to neighboring states in order to get abortion care.”
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