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This month, Americans are out in the streets, demanding police accountability. But rather than consider reform proposals, a key Senate committee is focused on giving unprecedented powers to law enforcement—including the ability to break into our private messages by creating encryption backdoors. TAKE ACTION STOP THE EARN IT BILL BEFORE IT BREAKS ENCRYPTION This Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to debate and vote on the so-called EARN IT Act, S. 3398. It’s a law that would allow the...
Update: On Tuesday night (6/30), the Brazilian Senate approved the “PLS 2630/2020” , the so-called “Fake News” bill. A final amendment cut back on article 7 “Account Registration” so that mandatory identification no longer applies to all users and is, in principle, optional in general. Under the revised text, companies "may" demand identification from users where there are complaints of non-compliance with the "fake news" law, or when there is reason to suspect they are bots, are behaving inauthentically, or...
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Digital Rights During the Pandemic: An eBook
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Surveillance Self-Defense
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