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Flock Safety’s Feature Updates Cannot Make Automated License Plate Readers Safe

Two recent statements from the surveillance company reveal a troubling pattern: when confronted by evidence of widespread abuse, Flock Safety has blamed users, downplayed harms, and doubled down on the very systems that enabled the violations in the first place.
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Today's Supreme Court Decision on Age Verification Tramples Free Speech and Undermines Privacy

Today’s decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton is a direct blow to the free speech rights of adults. This ruling allows states to enact onerous age-verification rules that will block adults from accessing lawful speech, curtail their ability to be anonymous, and jeopardize their data security and privacy.
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Ahead of Budapest Pride, EFF and 46 Organizations Call on European Commission to Defend Fundamental Rights in Hungary

This week, EFF joined EDRi and nearly 50 civil society organizations urging the European Commission’s President Ursula von der Leyen, Executive Vice President Henna Virkunnen, and Commissioners Michael McGrath and Hadja Lahbib to take immediate action and defend human rights in Hungary.The European Commission has a responsibility to protect...

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FBI Warning on IoT Devices: How to Tell If You Are Impacted

On June 5th, the FBI released a PSA titled “Home Internet Connected Devices Facilitate Criminal Activity.” This PSA largely references devices impacted by the latest generation of BADBOX malware (as named by HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence and Research team) that EFF researchers ...

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Major Setback for Intermediary Liability in Brazil: Risks and Blind Spots

This is the third post of a series about internet intermediary liability in Brazil. Our first post gives an overview of Brazil's current internet intermediary liability regime, set out in a law known as "Marco Civil da Internet," the context of its approval in 2014, and the beginning...

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