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US Postal Service monitored protests on social media with little oversight, records show
Records released under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit show the US Postal Service's internal iCOP programme routinely reviewed social media posts about protests in 2020 and 2021, and circulated bulletins about planned events. Many bulletins were descriptive, and some anticipated violence without citing specific threats. The agency has since renamed the programme and says it stopped distributing bulletins, but the documents do not show that the monitoring ended, and very few internal rules were disclosed.
EFF podcast revisits the 2006 AT&T whistleblower case that exposed NSA surveillance
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Privacy's Defenders podcast covers the 2006 disclosure by former AT&T technician Mark Klein, who gave EFF documents about a secret room in a San Francisco AT&T building linked to NSA mass surveillance. EFF sued AT&T within about two weeks in Hepting v. AT&T, and the episode also features the related case against the NSA led by Carolyn Jewel.
EFF Warns Narrowing Fair Use for Generative AI Training Would Harm the Public
The EFF has filed an amicus brief in In re OpenAI, arguing that narrowing the fair use doctrine would affect far more than generative AI developers. It warns that requiring lawful acquisition of training data or mandatory licensing would entrench large tech firms, impede research and journalism, and cast doubt on routine copying in everyday internet use.