EFF Is Ready for What’s Next
EFFector 36.14
EFF Is Ready for What’s Next
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In our 816th issue:
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Top Features
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.
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.
EFF Updates
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Here’s an audio version of EFFector. We hope you enjoy it!
Announcements
Thank you to Atsign and Zamzar, 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.
Job Openings
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.
MiniLinks
“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.”
EFF's Adam Schwartz explained how PimEyes and similar facial recognition technologies pose a threat to anonymity, calling them “deeply, deeply dangerous.”
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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