Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Controversial Kids Online Safety Act: Protecting Children or Censoring the Internet? #podcast

Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA): Protecting Kids or Censorship?

| | Age Verification Laws, Child protection, Controversial Legislation, Cyber Security, cyber threat, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, Digital Rights, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Episodes, Free Expression, Government Oversight, Information Security, Infosec, internet censorship, Internet Regulations, Kids Online Safety Act, KOSA, mass surveillance, Mental Health Online, Online Legislation, online privacy, online safety, Parental Responsibility, Podcast, Podcasts, Political Analysis, Privacy, Section 230, security, Social Media Policies, social media regulation, Tech platforms, technology, Weekly Edition
In this episode, we explore the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), a controversial bill aimed at protecting children online. Joined by co-host Scott Wright, we discuss the potential implications of KOSA, including ...
Shared Security Podcast
a leaking cookie

EFF Angry as Google Keeps 3rd-Party Cookies in Chrome

| | adtech, Advertising, Advertising and AdTech, adverts, Chrome, CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, cookie, Cookie Consent, cookieconsent, cookies, Data Privacy, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FLEDGE, FLoC, GOOG, google, Google Chrome, ICO, information commissioner's office, IP Protection, Privacy, Privacy Sandbox, regulatory capture, SB Blogwatch, Surveillance capitalism, Topics, tracking, tracking cookies, web cookie, zero trust
Regulatory capture by stealth? Google changes its mind about third-party tracking cookies—we’re stuck with them for the foreseeable ...
Security Boulevard
ByteDance cCEO Shou Zi Chew

TikTok ‘Ban’ — ByteDance CEO and EFF are BFFs

| | Bytedance, china, chinese government, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, Shou Zi Chew, social media, spyware, TikTok, TikTok Ban
7521 momentum builds: Shou Zi Chew plays for time, while Electronic Frontier Foundation says TikTok-kill bill is DOA ...
Security Boulevard
Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting Security Vulnerability

Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting Security Vulnerability

| | A Little Sunshine, Aaron Mackey, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Joe Martineau, Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
On Wednesday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran a story about how its staff discovered and reported a security vulnerability in a Missouri state education website that exposed the Social Security numbers of ...
Krebs on Security

How You’re Tracked Online, New Mass Surveillance Concerns, Malicious Android App Hijack

| | android, Australia, china, Cybersecurity, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Exploit, google, Hackers, Podcast, Podcast Episodes, Privacy, surveillance, Weekly Blaze Podcast
In episode 98: A new report from the EFF details how we are tracked online by third-party corporations, more mass surveillance concerns in China and Australia, and a malicious app hijack attack ...
Shared Security Podcast
Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do.

Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do.

| | A Little Sunshine, Aaron Mackey, Andy Greenberg, ATT, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Federal Communications Commission, Gigi Sohn, Google Voice, Nicholas Truglia, Robocalls, SIM swapping, The Coming Storm, wired
Incessantly annoying and fraudulent robocalls. Corrupt wireless company employees taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to unlock and hijack mobile phone service. Wireless providers selling real-time customer location data, despite ...
Krebs on Security
Supreme Court: Police Need Warrant for Mobile Location Data

Supreme Court: Police Need Warrant for Mobile Location Data

| | 4th Amendment, A Little Sunshine, Amy Howe, ATT, Carpenter v United States, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Jennifer Lynch, LocationSmart, SCOTUSblog.com, Securus Technologies, Sprint, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm, The New York Times, U.S. Supreme Court, verizon
The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that the government needs to obtain a court-ordered warrant to gather location data on mobile device users. The decision is a major development for privacy rights, ...
Krebs on Security