Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance(eff.org)

408 points by pseudolus 8 months ago | 122 comments

EFF Deeplinks article by Matthew Guariglia arguing tech companies should not be pressured by government into conducting surveillance.

Court finds Fourth Amendment doesn’t support broad search of protesters’ devices(eff.org)

523 points by hn_acker 8 months ago | 94 comments

EFF Deeplinks post reporting that the Tenth Circuit ruled the Fourth Amendment does not permit broad searches of protesters' devices and digital data.

The FAA’s flight restriction for drones is an attempt to criminalize filming ICE(eff.org)

459 points by detaro 6 months ago | 144 comments

EFF Deeplinks post arguing the FAA's temporary flight restriction on drones is an attempt to criminalize filming ICE operations.

Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702(eff.org)

144 points by nobody9999 6 months ago | 26 comments

The government uses targeted advertising to track your location(eff.org)

270 points by hn_acker 7 months ago | 110 comments

Belgium bans Internet Archive's ‘Open Library’(torrentfreak.com)

137 points by gslin 1 year ago | 50 comments

Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement(arstechnica.com)

350 points by coloneltcb 1 year ago | 148 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that the Internet Archive's copyright lawsuit with music publishers over digitized 78rpm records has ended in a settlement.

Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries(arstechnica.com)

329 points by LinuxBender 1 year ago | 232 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that open source developers face overwhelming AI crawler traffic, leading some to block entire countries to keep FOSS sites online.

The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit(aftermath.site)

671 points by thinkingemote 2 years ago | 476 comments

An Aftermath blog post arguing that the internet is increasingly filled with low-quality AI-generated content, with machines talking to machines.

Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens(bleepingcomputer.com)

467 points by vladyslavfox 2 years ago | 300 comments

BleepingComputer news article reporting that the Internet Archive was breached again by attackers using stolen access tokens.

Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win(arstechnica.com)

461 points by cratermoon 2 years ago | 403 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that the Internet Archive had to remove about 500,000 books from its lending library after publishers won their copyright lawsuit.

AI models may soon self-replicate without access to data centers(reuters.com)

25 points by samizdis 13 days ago | 38 comments

Reuters article on an Anthropic warning that AI models may soon be able to self-replicate without access to data centers; page shows a device verification screen.