Nicholas Iovino reports: The city of San Francisco will pay $369,000 to settle claims over its police raid on a journalist’s home and office this past May, an action condemned by press advocates as chilling the ability of reporters to get information from anonymous sources. Police barreled through the front door of freelance reporter Bryan…
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Redditor Wins Fight to Stay Anonymous
A great news press release from EFF: A Reddit commenter has won their fight to stay anonymous after facing an improper copyright claim from the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, a group that publishes doctrines for Jehovah’s Witnesses. A U.S. District Court judge has granted a motion to quash a subpoena for the identity of “Darkspilver,” a…
Schools are spying on students — but students can fight back!
EFF LAUNCHES SURVEILLANCE SELF-DEFENSE GUIDE FOR STUDENTS San Francisco – Schools across the country are increasingly using technology to spy on students at home, at school, and on social media. Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) launched a new Surveillance Self-Defense guide for students [1] and their parents, so they can learn more about how…
In Coronavirus Fight, China Gives Citizens a Color Code, With Red Flags
Paul Mozur, Raymond Zhong and Aaron Krolik report: As China encourages people to return to work despite the coronavirus outbreak, it has begun a bold mass experiment in using data to regulate citizens’ lives — by requiring them to use software on their smartphones that dictates whether they should be quarantined or allowed into subways,…