Legislation like New York’s S9934A sweeps far beyond AI, targeting anonymity rather than the real technical issue: overaggressive crawling that can overtax technological infrastructure. Governor Hochul should veto it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/eff-joins-18-civil-rights-organizations-calling-governor-hochul-reject-stealth
Legislation like New York’s S9934A sweeps far beyond AI, targeting anonymity…
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EFF Joins 18 Civil Rights Organizations Calling on Governor Hochul to Reject the Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act
EFF joined a group of 18 civil society organizations to send a letter encouraging New York Governor Kathy Hochul to Senate Bill 9934A, the New York Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act. The letter states:While framed as a measure to protect local journalism, this legislation harms free expression and...
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Hats off! Great work indeed! 🎉✨
What I really found shocking about this Act, is that it opposes to everything it "promises."
The irony of it being a bill, but yet it's language being so broad and vague that its... *creepy* (a personal RSS aggregator, a bookmarking service that prefetches links, or even a privacy focused browser, including Tor and even hardened Brave, that preloads pages could be called a "crawler.")
Forget AI, even automating requests gets you caught!
#privacymatters