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Los mensajes privados, los archivos y las fotos de los usuarios de Internet son examinados cada vez más por las empresas tecnológicas, que cotejan los datos con las bases de datos gubernamentales. Aunque no se trata de una práctica nueva, se está diciendo al público que este escaneo masivo debe extenderse a casi todos los alcances de su actividad en línea para que la policía pueda investigar de forma más productiva los delitos relacionados con las imágenes de abuso sexual...
Since the U.S. Supreme Court overruled a half century of precedent supporting the constitutional right to abortion access, numerous states have moved towards making abortion illegal and restricting additional reproductive health services. In South Carolina, Republican state Senators Richard Cash, Rex F. Rice and Daniel B. Verdin III introduced Senate Bill 1373 seeking to criminalize abortions. The bill would have also made it a crime to “aid, abet, or conspire with someone to procure an abortion,” which includes “providing information...
Online proctoring companies employ a lengthy list of dangerous monitoring and tracking techniques in an attempt to determine whether or not students are potentially cheating, many of which are biased and ineffective . This week, one of the more invasive techniques—the “room scan”— was correctly deemed unconstitutional by a federal judge. “Room scans” are a common requirement in proctored exams where students are forced to use their device’s camera to give a 360-degree view of everything around the area in...
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Surveillance Self-Defense
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Surveillance Self-Defense is EFF's online guide to defending yourself and your friends from surveillance by using secure technology and developing careful practices.
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Privacy Badger
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Privacy Badger is an install-and-forget browser add-on that stops advertisers and trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web.
