The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense when our digital freedoms come under attack. A non-profit detected to “Defending your rights in the digital world” – this episode of GeekSpeak Dan Auerbach, Staff Technologist at the EFF joins Lyle Troxell to cover GeekNews and talk about human rights in the digital age.
Dan is a Staff Technologist who is passionate about defending civil liberties and encouraging government transparency. Coming to EFF with a background in mathematical logic and automated reasoning, as well as years of engineering experience at Google, Dan now works on EFF’s various technical projects and helps lawyers, activists, and the public understand important technologies that might threaten the privacy or security of users.
The EFF’s project on weather a company is supporting your liberties.
A an article on the status of the W3C’s Do Not Track standard.
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Science fiction has some things to say about future societies.
An enlightening article on how data brokers and Facebook communicate.
Dan suggests that the only way people can really be private (kinda) is to use an Advertising Blocking plugin.
But, he warns, that this is not a sustainable solution as it interferes with how companies make their money.
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