leaks led to [the USA Freedom Act tightening some laws around using surveillance on American citizens](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/new-usa-freedom-act-step-right-direction-more-must-be-done). The federal court also [declared NSA's practices as illegal and possibly unconstitutional](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nsa-spying-idUSKBN25T3CK).

This is why I donate to [The Electronic Frontier Foundation](https://www.eff.org/) monthly as well as set my Amazon Charity as the EFF. I encourage all to do the same

their roadmap to add E2E encryption, but not there yet. More info here: [https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/mastodon-private-and-secure-lets-take-look](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/mastodon-private-and-secure-lets-take-look)

Communications Decency Act which explicitly exempts them from being treated as a publisher: https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230 “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker

platforms like social media from being treated as publishers of the content shared on their platforms. https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230 This is literally the only reason such services are not liable for what they host. They

/israel-news/.premium-israeli-spyware-was-used-to-track-saudi-journalist-khashoggi-edward-snowden-says-1.6633745), along with other [activists](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/09/saudi-womens-rights-activist-loujain-alhathloul-sues-us-intel-operatives-hacking-uae), too many people don’t understand the [dangers](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/nso-group-leak-shows-need-real-device-security-accountability-and-redress-those) of the tech they willingly carry in their pockets. Cyber is the new battleground

problem? >Mark: >Nooo, wasn't us, it's the users. We're a PLATFORM! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/publisher-or-platform-it-doesnt-matter https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/pmla/article/abs/platform-or-publisher/C59144B77FC9FDD8674E3CB8C1675309

user data privacy. And the NSA has been outed several times for spying on European governments. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/eu-court-again-rules-nsa-spying-makes-us-companies-inadequate-privacy EDIT: This is shit that you would only learn from reading the European press as American

through parking lots, etc, scanning every car. They're also mounted on streetlights, highway overpasses, etc. https://www.eff.org/pages/automated-license-plate-readers-alpr

Yeah, [Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/bad-day-bad-patents-supreme-court-unanimously-strikes-down-abstract-software) significantly limited the scope of software patents. It ruled that adding "on a computer" to an abstract idea does not itself make it patentable. I believe

Either way it ties back to you. It can include geolocation information, gender, age, and interests. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/google-says-it-doesnt-sell-your-data-heres-how-company-shares-monetizes-and And meta isn’t just selling data to the nsa data brokers, but Russia and China

from the EFF, for example? They'd even be on your side in opposing the bill. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/government-hasnt-justified-tiktok-ban

already seen the abuses with automated license plate readers. See the [article at EFF](https://www.eff.org/pages/automated-license-plate-readers-alpr) about those abuses