EFF Transition Memo to Trump Administration 2025
AI summary of the linked articleThe Electronic Frontier Foundation's transition memo to the Trump administration urges Congress and the administration to restore limits on government surveillance and reform FISA, which it says has been chipped away since the 1970s. The memo states that Section 702 is used to conduct surveillance on hundreds of thousands of individuals without individualized court review, and that in 2023 the government targeted over 250,000 people and intelligence agencies ran nearly 4,000 backdoor searches on U.S. persons. It recommends that Congress not renew Section 702 without significant, comprehensive reform, and it says facial recognition technology is flawed and misidentifies people, particularly people of color, women, young people, and transgender and nonbinary people. |
1 comment mishaSubmitter EFF's transition memo to the incoming Trump administration for 2025 outlines critical policy recommendations on digital rights and technology issues that will affect all Americans, it’s an assessment of current digital rights challenges and a roadmap for potential technology policy solutions including privacy and surveillance, encryption and cybersecurity, consumer data protection, artificial intelligence regulation, net neutrality and internet access, content moderation and Section 230. (Section 230 is an "essential legal pillar for online expression" that makes only the original speaker liable for their speech, not the platforms through which that speech reaches audiences.) |