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🤫 Meta's Secret Spying Scheme | EFFector 37.7

by Christian Romero
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Published on 7/2/2025

Keeping up on the latest digital rights news has never been easier. With a new look, EFF's EFFector newsletter covers the latest details on our work defending your rights to privacy and free expression online. EFFector 37.7 covers some of the very sn...

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Use public records to fight government secrecy, experts urge

Max Abrams
Freedom of the Press Foundation
Published on 7/1/2025

Long before he was the Freedom of Information Act director at The Washington Post, Nate Jones was a curious college student with a penchant for Able Archer 83. Looking to learn more about the 1983 NATO war game, he ventured to the Ronald Reagan Presi...

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Official EU Website Exploited to Advertise Shady IPTV Services

by Ernesto Van der Sar
TorrentFreak
Published on 7/1/2025

Last month, the EU published the fourth edition of its ‘Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List’, providing a detailed overview of piracy-linked sites and services located outside the EU. The report covered many unlicensed IPTV services, including VolkaIPT...

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Westminster group took cash from Israeli state-owned arms firm

Martin Williams
Declassified UK
Published on 7/1/2025

A group of MPs have been accused of a “crystal clear breach of the rules” after taking money from a weapons firm owned by the Israeli government. RUK Advanced Systems Ltd – which makes missiles for urban warfare – is part of Israel’s state-owned defe...

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EFFecting Change: EFF Turns 35!

by Aaron Jue, Melissa Srago
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Published on 7/1/2025

We're wishing EFF a happy birthday on July 10! Since 1990, EFF's lawyers, activists, analysts, and technologists have used everything in their toolkit to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world. Th...

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UK withheld evidence from court in Israel arms export case

JOHN McEVOY
Declassified UK
Published on 6/30/2025

Judges ruled this morning that Britain’s decision to allow F-35 fighter jet parts to be sent to Israel was lawful, despite concerns about violations of international humanitarian law. The 72-page ruling came in response to a landmark legal challenge...

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New VPN Service Can’t Log Users by Design

by Ernesto Van der Sar
TorrentFreak
Published on 6/29/2025

Over the past two decades, the VPN industry has grown spectacularly, with plenty of competition between providers. The days when a review of VPN logging policies was a novelty are long gone. While new VPN services launch frequently, it’s rare to se...

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