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EFF: Digital Hopes, Real Power: The Rise of Network Shutdowns

This is the fourth installment of a blog series reflecting on the global digital legacy of the 2011 Arab uprisings. You can read the rest of the series here. Iran’s internet has been intermittently disrupted for months. After years of bombardment, Gaza’s telecommunications infras

EFF: EFF is Leaving X

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. The math hasn’t worked out for a while now. The Numbers Aren’t Working Out We posted to Twitter (now known as X) five to ten times a day in 2018. Th

EFF: Digital Hopes, Real Power: How the Arab Spring Fueled a Global Surveillance Boom

This is the third installment of a blog series reflecting on the global digital legacy of the 2011 Arab uprisings. You can read the first post here, and the second here. When people recall the 2011 uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), they often picture crowd

AI Incident Database: Grandmother jailed for 6 months after AI error linked her to a crime in a state she had never even visited, lawyers say

A Tennessee grandmother spent nearly six months behind bars after artificial intelligence facial recognition software wrongly identified her as a suspect in a bank fraud case -- in North Dakota -- a state she says she had never even visited ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1

AI Incident Database: Police used AI facial recognition to arrest a Tennessee woman for crimes committed in a state she says she’s never visited

A Tennessee grandmother spent more than five months in jail after police used an AI facial recognition tool to link her to crimes committed in North Dakota – a state she says she’d never been to before. Police in Fargo, North Dakota, have ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/141