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Deceptive Checkboxes Should Not Open Our Checkbooks

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Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItThe checkbox in question, from the New York Times April 3rd piece.A screenshot of the November 3rd, 2020 donation form from WinRed on donaldjtrump.com, which shows two pre-checked boxes: one for monthly donations, and one for an additional automatic donation of the same amount on an additional date.A screenshot of the National Republican Congressional Committee donation site (nrcc.org), from the WayBack Machine’s crawl on November 3rd, 2020.Share ItIn a victory for users, Slack has fixed its for free workspaces. Instead of holding onto your messages on its servers for as long as your workspace exists, Slack is now giving free workspace admins the option to automatically delete all messages older than 90 days....Earlier this week, EFF, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and Demand Progress expressing our concerns about H.R. 3962, The Securing and Enabling Commerce Using Remote and Electronic Notarization Act of 2021 or SECURE Notarization Act. This bill would require states to recognize...The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will soon rule on Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drones, which are capable of flying while its operator (pilot) is far away. While these types of drones might offer benefits to society—think of deliveries, infrastructure inspection, and precision agriculture—they also pose serious threats to...The scourge of stalkerware—malicious apps used by perpetrators of domestic violence to secretly spy on their victims—is not going unchallenged or unaddressed. are increasingly adding stalkerware to the list of apps their products detect on devices; victim help people figure out whether their devices are...A growing number of states have transgender youths from obtaining gender-affirming health care. So these youths and their families must travel out-of-state for necessary health care. The states they visit are health care sanctuaries.These states must also be data sanctuaries for transgender youths.Earlier this year, the governor of...Internet users’ private messages, files, and photos of everyday people are increasingly being examined by tech companies, which check the data against government databases. While this is not a new practice, the public is being told this massive scanning should extend to nearly every reach of their online activity so...Jump straight to the Today, the vast majority of websites and emails that you encounter contain some form of tracking. Third-party cookies let advertisers follow you around the web; tracking pixels in emails confirm whether you’ve opened them; tracking links ensure websites...The ease with which bad actors can find a worldwide market for malicious apps that spy on people’s digital devices is at the center of an Australian Federal Police case against a man who, starting at the age of 15, wrote a stalkerware application and sold it to 14,500 people...When data broker SafeGraph , it had a public relations trick up its sleeve. After the company agreed to from its platforms in response to public outcry, CEO Auren Hoffman tried to flip the narrative:...There's a lot of discussion right now about how a federal privacy , the American Data Privacy Protection Act (H.R.8152), will affect state privacy laws. EFF has on this: federal privacy laws should not roll back state privacy protections. The ADPPA, as currently written, would...Share It

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItThe checkbox in question, from the New York Times April 3rd piece.A screenshot of the November 3rd, 2020 donation form from WinRed on donaldjtrump.com, which shows two pre-checked boxes: one for monthly donations, and one for an additional automatic donation of the same amount on an additional date.A screenshot of the National Republican Congressional Committee donation site (nrcc.org), from the WayBack Machine’s crawl on November 3rd, 2020.Share ItIn a victory for users, Slack has fixed its for free workspaces....

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Jason Kelley is a Digital Strategist on EFF’s Activism Team. Before joining EFF, Jason managed marketing strategy and content for a software company that helps non-programmers learn to code, and advertising and marketing analytics for a student loan startup. Jason received his BA in English and Philosophy from Kent State University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from The University of the South.

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