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Full article · CC BY 4.0Earlier this month, France’s top court struck down the country’s legislation that banned social media use for people under 15 years old, which had been scheduled to take effect in January 2027. This is a…
Vercel Labs has introduced scriptc, an experimental compiler that converts TypeScript into small native executables without relying on Node, V8, or a JavaScript engine. It uses the TypeScript compiler for type checking and can output…
Full article · CC BY 4.0Under this settlement, young users will now have less access to Meta products, and a lesser ability to exercise their rights to speak, access information and art and culture, associate and form communities, and play.…
Full article · CC BY 4.0Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) build a searchable map of everywhere a driver goes, fed into databases that police, ICE, and private vendors can query after the fact. Networked across a city, ALPRs are purpose-built…
Full article · CC BY 4.0Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has conducted unlawful investigations into dozens of individuals who have documented ICE activities in their communities, social media users who criticized the government, and international students who attended a protest.…
Full article · CC BY 4.0EFF, Access Now, and Data Privacy Brasil are putting forward recommendations to strengthen robust privacy and data protection safeguards in the context of Brazil's elections. The recommendations stress the close relationship between violations of personal…
Full article · CC BY 4.0This post is adapted from a video recorded by EFF and the Trevor Project. Head over to our TikTok or Instagram to watch! EFF answers all the queer digital rights questions you submit to us…
Full article · CC BY 4.0Doxxing is the deliberate disclosure of personal information in order to bully, harass, intimidate, or instigate a chain of harms against someone. It's a tricky thing to protect against when the jerk doing it is…
Full article · CC BY 4.0Doxxing, also known as the deliberate sharing of personal information to harass or endanger someone, is a tricky thing to protect against. It often happens by some ill-intentioned person accessing publicly available information, then sharing…
With the upcoming introduction of the foldable iPhone Duo, iOS developers will need to adapt their apps to ensure they work correctly across the new device's outer display, larger inner display, and partially folded states.…
Full article · CC BY 4.0Online sports betting company DraftKings is using AI to target customers who are most likely to place losing bets and respond to gambling promotions. This kind of targeting is a form of online behavioral advertising,…
Full article · CC BY 4.0The history of technology is rife with copyright panics. In the 1980s, major rightsholders ran to Congress and the courts, claiming that videotape recorders (VTR) were “to the American film producer and the American public…