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  1. 4 minutes ago

    Learn about the spying technologies police are deploying in our communities at EFF's Street-Level Surveillance hub

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  2. 1 hour ago

    Our latest Takedown Hall of Shame entry is a takedown of a critical tweet.

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  3. 3 hours ago

    California cannabis vendors are collecting lots of sensitive of data on their customers. Legal protections are needed to stop them from selling it to data brokers.

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  4. 4 hours ago

    The Secure Data Act would stop any government agency or court order from forcing a company to build backdoors into encrypted devices and communications. It gets encryption right.

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  5. Retweeted
    Jun 9

    DHS wants DNA, scars, tattoos, face, and voice data—as well as information from officer “encounters” and about people’s “relationship patterns”—and it wants them in a massive database by 2021:

    A slide from the Department of Homeland Security showing their plans each year to expand their database.
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  6. 8 hours ago

    Our Electronic Frontier Alliance allies around the US organize a range of events to protect, educate, and empower their real-world neighbors' engagement with the digital world. Find their events on our calendar or follow them online

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  7. 20 hours ago

    Concerned about privacy, innovation, and Internet freedom in your community? Join or start an Electronic Frontier Alliance allied group in your area.

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  8. 23 hours ago

    A California bill to guarantee juveniles in detention can improve their education with Internet resources faces a key hearing on Tuesday. We urge the Human Services Committee chair to once again support this important measure.

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  9. Jun 9

    Online businesses shouldn’t have to take on the role of copyright police in order to be served by payment processors.

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  10. Jun 9

    EFF works with over seventy grassroots partners in the Electronic Frontier Alliance—supporting their efforts to educate, protect, and raise awareness about digital security and privacy in their communities. Find an EFA ally in your area:

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  11. Jun 9

    And multiple Hugo Award-winning sci-fi author John Scalzi wrote a new short story to help us win the fight for the .

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  12. Jun 9

    Here's some science fiction about the dystopia that DRM creates by locking up video, from 2017 Hugo and Nebula Award nominee .

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  13. Jun 9

    It's Not Brain Surgery, by Cory —a science fiction tale about the dangers of internet-connected devices that we aren't legally able to control with software of our choosing.

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  14. Jun 9

    A 1998 law stops you from using your own software on devices that didn't even exist then, like smart speakers—and keeps you from repairing devices you own, from tractors to coffee machines. If that's not dystopian enough, here are 3 new sci-fi stories about this big problem:

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  15. Jun 9

    We're hiring! Learn more about why EFF is a great place to work, from terrific benefits including housing and student loan reimbursement to a commitment to diversity—and we're changing the world through impact litigation, technology, and activism.

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  16. Jun 9

    After winning at the FCC on net neutrality, the big ISPs are going back there to make it harder for us to have a choice of Internet provider

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  17. Retweeted
    Jun 7

    EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow's new memoir is recommended for those interested in the early days of digital rights and online culture, and how he ended up at the center of it

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  18. Jun 9

    DHS wants DNA, scars, tattoos, face, and voice data—as well as information from officer “encounters” and about people’s “relationship patterns”—and it wants them in a massive database by 2021:

    A slide from the Department of Homeland Security showing their plans each year to expand their database.
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  19. Jun 9

    Do you know where your representative stands on ? Find out and tell them to support restoring the 2015 Open Internet Order

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  20. Jun 8

    This bill would chill free expression and make New York a global destination for celebrities to file right of publicity lawsuits.

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