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Here’s another reason to block digital surveillance: it might reduce financial fraud. That’s the upshot of a small but promising study published as a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper, “Consumer Surveillance and Financial Fraud. Authors Bo Bian, Michaela Pagel and Huan Tang...
The Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) closes on January 15, 2024! U.S. federal employees and retirees can make a pledge to help support EFF’s lawyers, activists, and technologists fight for user rights online.If you’re a U.S. federal employee or retiree, giving to EFF through the CFC is easy! Just...
Long-time Slashdot reader nmb3000 writes: The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a new white paper, Privacy First: A Better Way to Address Online Harms , to propose an alternative to the "often ill-conceived, bills written by state, federal, and international regulators to tackle a broad ...
INNOVATIONS in the last decade such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) have revolutionized industries, creating new avenues for productivity, growth and insight generation. While this is great news for both individuals and corporations alike and paves for transformative breakthroughs, it has also expanded the needs and challenges of safeguarding data privacy.
In this report, EFF explores a new approach to tackling online harms leaving behind strategies based on ill-conceived bills and censorship-driven solutions.