Fast Company reports on a new project by Amnesty International designed to help protect individuals from bulk government surveillance. Mutant Font is a website that generates a given message into code that can be embedded into a blog. The text is only readable to human eyes and not machines or bots, the report states, suggesting, “Think of it like a CAPTCHA program on steroids.” The project is in conjunction with a Brazil-based agency called Africa. According to Amnesty International, spying on online communications is a violation of human rights, and a common tool for such spying is online bots.
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