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Introducing Encrypt It Already | Electronic Frontier Foundation

2026-01-30 22:39:35

[EFF is] launching Encrypt It Already, our push to get companies to offer stronger privacy protections to our data and communications by implementing end-to-end encryption. If that name sounds a little familiar, it’s because this is a spiritual successor to our 2019 campaign, Fix It Already, a campaign where we pushed companies to fix longstanding issues.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/introducing-encrypt-it-already

Anna Riedl: “The amount of prompt engineering needed to not make medical professionals have wild irrelevant hallucinations is truly extraordinary”

2026-01-30 13:41:01

Sometimes I agree people are more like LLMs and less like what they imagine:

“For example, if you mention having had emotional stress they will entirely ignore the long list of physical symptoms you mention afterwards and suggest you look into „psychosomatic“ causes. At this point I don’t know whether to attribute „general intelligence“ or „understanding“ to their architecture.”

James Ball: On almost everything…evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers…

2026-01-29 17:57:11

“…But that issue gets zero political attention”.

Truth:

On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers.But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.

James Ball (@jamesrball.com) 2026-01-29T09:43:09.056Z

Links to:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz7y2xyxg7vo

State Department confirms: federal censorship shield law incoming | Preston Byrne

2026-01-29 05:57:13

:popcorn:

Sarah Rogers, United States Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy, confirmed that the US is poised to forever block foreign censorship of US citizens under laws like the UK Online Safety Act or the EU Digital Services Act.

https://prestonbyrne.com/2026/01/28/state-department-confirms-federal-granite-act-incoming/

Will Congress shield the US from foreign attacks on the First Amendment? | Spectator | Ofcom & British civil society does not understand the 1st amendment

2026-01-28 18:37:37

“The only answer to the foreign censorship problem is law reform. Congress should make it clear that foreign censors cross our border at their peril. The only way to accomplish this is to enact federal shield legislation, like GRANITE, that strips sovereign immunity for foreign censorship and makes the consequences so ruinous that such threats will never be made again.”

https://spectator.com/article/congress-shield-us-foreign-attacks-first-amendment/?edition=us

Archived at: https://archive.md/2026.01.27-124318/https://spectator.com/article/congress-shield-us-foreign-attacks-first-amendment/?edition=us

Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance over Mar-a-Lago using AF2 ICAO identity

2026-01-28 17:13:40

This, if it is still visible:

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adfdf9&lat=26.678&lon=-80.030&zoom=14.4&showTrace=2026-01-28

Via:

Next up, age verification for ADSB?