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LibrePlanet 2022 returns online: Submit your session proposal by Dec. 1
The fourteenth edition of the Free Software Foundation's (FSF) conference on technology and social justice will be held in spring 2022, online. The Call for Sessions is now open, and will close on December 1, 2021. Potential talks should examine free software through the lens of this year's theme: Living Liberation.
FSF announces JShelter browser add-on to combat threats from nonfree JavaScript
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Thursday, September 30th, 2021 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the JShelter project, an anti-malware Web browser extension to mitigate potential threats from JavaScript, including fingerprinting, tracking, and data collection. The project is supported by NLnet Foundation's Next Generation Internet (NGI) Zero Privacy & Trust Enhancing Technologies fund. Collaborators include Libor Polčák and Bednář Martin (Brno University of Technology), Giorgio Maone (NoScript), and Ana Isabel Carvalho and Ricardo Lafuente (Manufactura Independente). The JShelter browser add-on is in development and the first release is available.
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