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• Post #4393797

  You cannot make mass surveillance "safe" or "good" by adding more guardrails. The only way to make Flock safe is to get rid of Flock. https://www.gpb.org/news/2026/08/05/analysis-more-guardrails-needed-prevent-police-misuse-of-flock-cameras

• Post #4381115

  You would think that all of these people pushing for social media bans for kids would be interested in whether or not these bans actually work...but no, I guarantee we will keep on seeing age-gating bills. https://theconversation.com/more-than-80-of-kids-still-using-social-media-despite-ban-new-esafety-report-finds-288808

• Post #4366328

  This article mentions the keynote speaker at a cybersecurity conference in Scottsdale who was wearing a bralette and sheer black skirt to dinner and I NEED TO KNOW WHO THIS QUEEN IS. https://www.wsj.com/style/fashion/naked-dressing-hailey-bieber-madonna-d2a1d94b

• Post #4287299

  Lindsay Deibler-Wallace, assistant head of Upper School, took no action to protect them after telling parents that “boys will be boys.” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/high-school-defends-staying-silent-while-boys-made-ai-nudes-of-59-classmates/

• Post #4217779

  For the first time in 20-something years, I have run out of checks and must order a new checkbook. Europeans of a certain age will not even understand what this sentence means.

• Post #4215520

  I spend a lot of time explicitly making the connection between interpersonal surveillance/abuse and government surveillance. Sometimes I see people claim that the Internet Freedom set only cares about govt surveillance and I wonder if they either don't know my work or they think I don't count.

• Post #4214126

  "A few weeks ago, a self-driving Waymo-brand taxi in San Mateo, California delivered two children into the hands of the police." A @margaret.bsky.social short story gets the Torment Nexus treatment. https://margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/when-they-insist-upon-the-torment

• Post #4172813

  EFF is based in San Francisco, so we take surveillance here very personally. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/why-are-gay-bars-building-databases-their-patrons

• Post #4148270

  Rapists primarily show solidarity with other rapists. https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-daniel-moraff-graham-platner-alleged-sexual-assault

• Post #4143290

  Claude warns users that by hitting the "share button" anyone with the link can view the content, but it is not clear that they are creating a document that can be indexed by Google and will come up in searches. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/claude-chats-publicly-accessible

• Post #4078804

  The nice lady on Fillmore selling me pants today asked where I lived, and when I told her, she made a concerned face and asked "Is it safe there?" so I replied "I'm the most dangerous thing there," and this is the only answer I will be using from now on.

• Post #4069393

  This matters a lot because people are constantly asking me if they should set up a duress passcode in order to fool law enforcement. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us-accuses-american-of-allegedly-wiping-his-phone-using-a-duress-password-during-border-search/

• Post #4068201

  Security Research Labs reports on a wave of extortion attacks hitting women's shelters. The original report is in German, but scroll down for English. https://srlabs.de/blog/erpressungswelle-auf-frauenhaus

• Post #4046148

  Apple has fixed the bug in Hide My Email that linked Hide My Email addresses to your real one, but leaked email addresses could still be in third-party logs: https://easyoptouts.com/guides/apple-hide-my-email-was-leaking-email-addresses

• Post #3975713

  If you live in California and you want to take advantage of the state-run portal that tells all registered data brokers to delete your data instead of having to send an individual request to every single one, here is what you need to know: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/what-you-need-know-about-californias-drop-tool

• Post #3965892

  The other day I accidentally discovered that I have the 31st most-followed account on Mastodon and this goes a long way toward explaining why my mentions/replies are so weird and terrible.

• Post #3964490

  ACLU of Massachusetts has put out a toolkit for lawyers to help them find out when digital surveillance has been used to build the case against their clients. Love to see it. https://www.aclum.org/news/digital-surveillance-criminal-defense/

• Post #3964223

  Judge rules that the Trump administration can't deport researchers just for working on disinformation. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/judge-trump-cant-deport-researchers-just-for-working-in-content-moderation/

• Post #3920122

  Since it turns out that there are many people on the internet who enjoy Halloween-themed ceramics, now is the time to check out the ceramicist who made all of my favorite mugs: https://rhoneypots.com/lizrmugs

• Post #3917038

  Every time a journalist comes to me with a story like this one, they say something along the lines of "At least it's good that they're catching the bad apples on the force that abuse the technology right?" and I have to point out that only a tiny fraction of abuse ever leads to consequences. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/police-losing-jobs-flock-cameras-alprs/

• Post #3890995

  Sometimes the good guys win. And when this happens, we take the time to enjoy our victory because that is the only way to fight a long fight without burning out. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/victory-flock-ends-rollout-audio-distress-detection-human-voices

• Post #3871445

  Eva, wasn't your New Years' resolution for 2026 to just let people be wrong on the internet? Shut up.

• Post #3871132

  I don't understand people who think that replying to a post about the safest way to DO THING with "You just shouldn't DO THING" is adding to the discourse in any kind of useful way. I'm trying to do harm reduction here.

• Post #3870600

  Mozilla reviewed the privacy practices of six popular period-tracking apps and has one recommendation: Euki. https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/nothing-personal/period-ovulation-trackers/

• Post #3865594

  As a person whose name and likeness regularly gets used for AI slop, @kashhill.bsky.social's AI-written biography has unlocked an entirely new kind of nightmare fuel: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/technology/ai-slop-books-biography-amazon.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yFA.goGV.PyjHouzlY6S3

• Post #3865448

  Inspired by @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social's work, my colleague Thorin looked into the state of privacy for smart watches, rings, and bands, and the vibes are rancid: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/most-smart-watches-rings-and-bands-lack-basic-transparency-reports-and-key-privacy

• Post #3814488

  This Certo report on how abusers are using Chrome sync for stalking is an important reminder that tech-enabled abuse isn't just limited to stalkerware: https://www.certosoftware.com/insights/cyberstalkers-exploiting-chrome-sync-to-spy/

• Post #3814018

  The joy that my cats feel when I stop feeding them their super expensive medicated wet food and give them a can of something from the supermarket convinces me that they are actually raccoons. They crave the trash.

• Post #3722236

  An excellent piece from Vogue about Meta's continuing attempt to make their "smart glasses" fashionable and cool that makes all of the right points about the ways in which normalizing ubiquitous surveillance creates a world we don't want to live in. https://www.vogue.com/article/do-smart-glasses-have-a-surveillance-problem

• Post #3704342

  In 2018, I wore a t-shirt to ShmooCon that said "Don't rape" on the front and "Don't support rapists" on the back. I didn't expect that I would get quite so much wear out of this shirt over the years.