David Greene
@davidgreene.bsky.social
@EFF's Senior Counsel, 1st Amdt prof @ USF, ex-SFSU. NOT any of the other David Greenes, like the ex-NPR host, the ex-UGA QB, or the 1 who directed Grease. Posts r mine only, so hands off.
Like many (all?) of the DOJ vindictive prosecutions, the cases against the journalists who reported on the church protest are not designed to have any legal merit or result in successful prosecutions. They are designed to terrorize, to chill, to flex and preen, to assert brazen unchecked power.
January 30, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Like many (all?) of the DOJ vindictive prosecutions, the cases against the journalists who reported on the church protest are not designed to have any legal merit or result in successful prosecutions. They are designed to terrorize, to chill, to flex and preen, to assert brazen unchecked power.
Reposted by David Greene
Anyway congrats to our Free Speech Champions(tm) who helped usher in the most censorious American government since the Palmer Raids
January 30, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Anyway congrats to our Free Speech Champions(tm) who helped usher in the most censorious American government since the Palmer Raids
Reposted by David Greene
“Agents can identify people on the street through facial recognition, trace their movements through license-plate readers and, in some cases, use commercially available phone-location data to reconstruct daily routines and associations.” All surveillance tools people have pushed back on for ages…
DHS ramps up surveillance in immigration raids, sweeping in citizens
The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis is providing insights into the surveillance technologies the government is using in its mass deportation campaign.
apnews.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:28 PM
“Agents can identify people on the street through facial recognition, trace their movements through license-plate readers and, in some cases, use commercially available phone-location data to reconstruct daily routines and associations.” All surveillance tools people have pushed back on for ages…
Reposted by David Greene
reminder that a small handful of Republicans in the House and Senate could end this madness today
January 30, 2026 at 3:22 PM
reminder that a small handful of Republicans in the House and Senate could end this madness today
Not to diminish in anyway how awful and authoritarian it is to arrest journalists for covering newsworthy events, it's really hard to pick which awful authoritarian act by the administration is "the biggest First Amendment showdown" of trump's presidency. Unfortunately, way too many choices ...
From @joshgerstein.bsky.social: "The criminal case against Lemon sets up the biggest First Amendment showdown of President Donald Trump’s presidency."
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Don Lemon arrested over Minnesota church protest after judge previously rejected charge
The chief federal judge in Minneapolis said he saw no probable cause to arrest the longtime journalist.
www.politico.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Not to diminish in anyway how awful and authoritarian it is to arrest journalists for covering newsworthy events, it's really hard to pick which awful authoritarian act by the administration is "the biggest First Amendment showdown" of trump's presidency. Unfortunately, way too many choices ...
Reposted by David Greene
The party of free speech is at it again.
Also remember Florida was the first to pass its (unconstitutional) law suggesting that no political speech could ever be removed from social media, and desantis did a whole big thing about how Florida had the strongest free speech protections.
Also remember Florida was the first to pass its (unconstitutional) law suggesting that no political speech could ever be removed from social media, and desantis did a whole big thing about how Florida had the strongest free speech protections.
A nurse is banned from working in Florida following an expletive-filled social media post wishing President Trump’s press secretary a painful child birth.
Florida bans nurse for TikTok post about Trump's press secretary
A nurse is banned from working in Florida following an expletive-filled social media post wishing President Trump’s press secretary a painful child birth.
bit.ly
January 30, 2026 at 3:46 PM
The party of free speech is at it again.
Also remember Florida was the first to pass its (unconstitutional) law suggesting that no political speech could ever be removed from social media, and desantis did a whole big thing about how Florida had the strongest free speech protections.
Also remember Florida was the first to pass its (unconstitutional) law suggesting that no political speech could ever be removed from social media, and desantis did a whole big thing about how Florida had the strongest free speech protections.
Stop arresting journalists for covering newsworthy events
January 30, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Stop arresting journalists for covering newsworthy events
Reposted by David Greene
This is a few days old, but the insanity is still fresh. "This isn’t about 'owning the libs' — this is the highest office in the nation using technology to lie to the entire world." www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
January 30, 2026 at 1:11 AM
This is a few days old, but the insanity is still fresh. "This isn’t about 'owning the libs' — this is the highest office in the nation using technology to lie to the entire world." www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Reposted by David Greene
Today, we’re launching Encrypt It Already, a new website pushing tech companies to deliver stronger privacy protections to their users by enabling and expanding the use of end-to-end encryption across their products or services. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Introducing Encrypt It Already
Today, we’re launching Encrypt It Already, our push to get companies to offer stronger privacy protections to our data and communications by implementing end-to-end encryption. If that name sounds a
www.eff.org
January 29, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Today, we’re launching Encrypt It Already, a new website pushing tech companies to deliver stronger privacy protections to their users by enabling and expanding the use of end-to-end encryption across their products or services. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Reposted by David Greene
I've done a ton of writing about platform transparency and user privacy issues. I just put together a list for someone, since it's not really collected anywhere. Here it is in case anyone else can use it. 1/
October 11, 2024 at 7:31 PM
I've done a ton of writing about platform transparency and user privacy issues. I just put together a list for someone, since it's not really collected anywhere. Here it is in case anyone else can use it. 1/
I am not an expert in this area. But it might have been more effective if you had simply ordered the people you control to not kill and beat people.
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 4:42 PM
I am not an expert in this area. But it might have been more effective if you had simply ordered the people you control to not kill and beat people.
Reposted by David Greene
The strange obsession with Blackstone, a monarchist who hated the colonists and their fight for independence, has long been a focus of mine.
Jefferson said that Blackstone did now harm than the armies of Bonaparte!
Jefferson said that Blackstone did now harm than the armies of Bonaparte!
Starting here. No serious scholar of the common law's history would even think to approach the law in this way.
Coke
Blackstone
The law was not theirs alone. They were influential, of course, but I'd never suggest they are the end-all, be-all. Coke's opinion was not the only one in Calvin's Case.
Coke
Blackstone
The law was not theirs alone. They were influential, of course, but I'd never suggest they are the end-all, be-all. Coke's opinion was not the only one in Calvin's Case.
January 28, 2026 at 6:50 PM
The strange obsession with Blackstone, a monarchist who hated the colonists and their fight for independence, has long been a focus of mine.
Jefferson said that Blackstone did now harm than the armies of Bonaparte!
Jefferson said that Blackstone did now harm than the armies of Bonaparte!
Reposted by David Greene
We’ve just published the “DSA Human Rights Principles: A Global Perspective” to keep the DSA enforcement rights-respecting and globally informed. They address the Brussels Effect and outline concrete actions to protect fundamental rights across borders.
www.eff.org/issues/princ...
www.eff.org/issues/princ...
Principles for a Human-Rights Centred Application of the DSA: A Global Perspective From the DSA Human Rights Alliance
The EU’s pioneering Digital Services Act (DSA) aims to foster a safer digital space by setting out new responsibilities for online platforms, supporting online expression, and giving users more contro...
www.eff.org
January 28, 2026 at 10:58 AM
We’ve just published the “DSA Human Rights Principles: A Global Perspective” to keep the DSA enforcement rights-respecting and globally informed. They address the Brussels Effect and outline concrete actions to protect fundamental rights across borders.
www.eff.org/issues/princ...
www.eff.org/issues/princ...
Reposted by David Greene
Day after day in Minneapolis, ordinary people have pulled out their phones and documented ICE & Border Patrol's actions, often in the face of threats and tear gas. They showed the world the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. But what happens when the camera is in ICE’s hands? 1/11
January 27, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Day after day in Minneapolis, ordinary people have pulled out their phones and documented ICE & Border Patrol's actions, often in the face of threats and tear gas. They showed the world the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. But what happens when the camera is in ICE’s hands? 1/11
oooh. Expedite this one right to the Oversight Board www.wired.com/story/meta-i...
Meta Is Blocking Links to ICE List on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
Users of Meta’s social platforms can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees.
www.wired.com
January 28, 2026 at 12:41 AM
oooh. Expedite this one right to the Oversight Board www.wired.com/story/meta-i...
Wherein I marvel at the symmetry of TikTok users being told, without proof, that China-owned TikTok was feeding them Chinese propaganda, and now here they are lacking confidence EllisonKushner-owned TikTok is not feeding them US propaganda. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
TikTok users “absolutely justified” for fearing MAGA makeover, experts say
TikTok’s tech issues abound as censorship fears drive users to delete app.
arstechnica.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Wherein I marvel at the symmetry of TikTok users being told, without proof, that China-owned TikTok was feeding them Chinese propaganda, and now here they are lacking confidence EllisonKushner-owned TikTok is not feeding them US propaganda. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
"But in this situation, it is the government itself that is misusing technology and propagating harmful falsehoods. This doesn't require new laws; the government can and should put an end to this practice on its own."
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week posted a photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of three activists who had entered a St. Paul, Minn. church to confront a pastor who a...
www.eff.org
January 27, 2026 at 10:48 PM
"But in this situation, it is the government itself that is misusing technology and propagating harmful falsehoods. This doesn't require new laws; the government can and should put an end to this practice on its own."
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Tom Homan needs more training
TOM HOMAN: “We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous. We’re going to put their face on TV. We’re going to let their employers, in their neighborhoods, in their schools, know who these people are.”
Story: www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
January 27, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Tom Homan needs more training
Reposted by David Greene
It’s a good time for you to read up on the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border—especially all of the different types of technologies spying on residents and travelers there.
@eff.org spent so much time assembling these printable zines in English and Spanish documenting the tech we’ve seen.
@eff.org spent so much time assembling these printable zines in English and Spanish documenting the tech we’ve seen.
Surveillance Technology at the U.S.-Mexico Border: An EFF Zine
Learn how to spot surveillance at the border.As surveillance technology becomes ubiquitous along the U.S.-Mexico border, the equipment is still sometimes unknown or invisible to even the activists, hu...
www.eff.org
January 27, 2026 at 1:58 PM
It’s a good time for you to read up on the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border—especially all of the different types of technologies spying on residents and travelers there.
@eff.org spent so much time assembling these printable zines in English and Spanish documenting the tech we’ve seen.
@eff.org spent so much time assembling these printable zines in English and Spanish documenting the tech we’ve seen.
Reposted by David Greene
Proud to see @eff.org make a clear statement on ICE and CBP, as befits an organization dedicated to standing up for human rights. And the team's work in defending digital privacy has never been more vital than it is right now. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
EFF Statement on ICE and CBP Violence
Dangerously unchecked surveillance and rights violations have been a throughline of the Department of Homeland Security since the agency’s creation in the wake of the September 11th attacks. In partic...
www.eff.org
January 27, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Proud to see @eff.org make a clear statement on ICE and CBP, as befits an organization dedicated to standing up for human rights. And the team's work in defending digital privacy has never been more vital than it is right now. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
"We join with many others in saying that Congress must vote to reject any further funding of ICE and CBP this week. But that is not enough." www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
EFF Statement on ICE and CBP Violence
In the past year, ICE and CBP have descended into utter lawlessness, repeatedly refusing to exercise or submit to the democratic accountability required by the Constitution and our system of laws. The...
www.eff.org
January 27, 2026 at 6:28 PM
"We join with many others in saying that Congress must vote to reject any further funding of ICE and CBP this week. But that is not enough." www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Nice to come home to this @tomtomorrow.bsky.social
January 27, 2026 at 3:07 AM
Nice to come home to this @tomtomorrow.bsky.social
And here's more! www.leighday.co.uk/news/press-r...
January 27, 2026 at 12:26 AM
And here's more! www.leighday.co.uk/news/press-r...
I said this
Whatever TikTok’s problem was over the weekend,“When Trump said he ‘would save TikTok,’ we explained that that meant he would arrange to have it sold to someone beholden to him, or otherwise willing to do his bidding,” EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @NBCNews.com. www.nbcnews.com/tech/intern...
TikTok blames power outage for widespread glitches that many users say are censorship
Users experienced technical glitches over the weekend, and some said they believed their posts were being censored because of political content.
www.nbcnews.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:20 AM
I said this