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Californians have successfully pushed the state's legislature to restore two-thirds of the 2015 Open Internet Order through state laws. Stopping legislation from Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez that's backed by AT&T and Comcast is the final piece to bringing back those critical protections to promote broadband choice. The California Assembly will soon take up A.B. 1366 , which would renew a 2011 ISP-backed law that expires this year. That law had the stated goal of promoting choice and competition for Voice over...
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted today by 8-to-1 to make San Francisco the first major city in the United States to ban government use of face surveillance technology. This historic measure applies to all city departments. The Stop Secret Surveillance Ordinance also takes an important step toward ensuring a more informed and democratic process before the San Francisco Police Department and other city agencies may acquire other kinds of surveillance technologies. Face recognition technology is a particularly pernicious...
Las plataformas de medios sociales toman decisiones arbitrarias y contradictorias sobre qué discurso bloquear o penalizar de forma rutinaria. Nadie está contento con el status quo: ni la gente que quiere más censura, ni la gente que quiere menos censura, ni, mucho menos, la gente que simplemente quiere que las plataformas tomen decisiones diferentes para que los grupos ya marginados no carguen con el peso de sus políticas de censura. Muchos están buscando una mejor manera de avanzar. EFF ofreció...
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