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✨🌈 Home of Digital Rights Defenders @teamcommunity.bsky.social · 12d

Checkout the 2025 recipients of the @eff.org awards - @justfutureslaw.bsky.social , @erie.bsky.social , and Software Freedom Law Center India. The full event is posted on YouTube and the Internet Archive, and a transcript of the live captions is also available.

Shining a Spotlight on Digital Rights Heroes: EFF Awards 2025

It's been a year full of challenges, but also important victories for digital freedoms. From EFF’s new lawsuit against OPM and DOGE, to launching Rayhunter (our new tool to detect cellular spying),…

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Just Futures Law @justfutureslaw.bsky.social · 14d

Face coverings are now banned for most law enforcement in California.

Credit to the activists and organizers in California who spoke up, organized, and added pressure!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

California becomes first state to ban face coverings for most law enforcement

Local and federal agents, including immigration officials, may not wear non-medical masks while conducting official business

www.theguardian.com

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Just Futures Law @justfutureslaw.bsky.social · 15d

ICE records on Palantir show how the company has long been enmeshed in the day-to-day operations fueling ICE surveillance and deportations.

People's Tech @peoplestechproject.bsky.social · 16d

Must read: @us.theguardian.com om covers @justfutureslaw.bsky.social's expansive FOIA data on Palantir’s relationship with ICE. Crucial information as ICE massively expands raids across the country.

🔗 www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Documents offer rare insight on Ice’s close relationship with Palantir

For years, little was known about the multibillion-dollar company that handles data for the US immigration enforcement agency. Now, a cache of emails, training documents and reports sheds light on how...

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Just Futures Law @justfutureslaw.bsky.social · 21d

As ICE agents conduct paramilitary-style operations that are disappearing thousands of community members off our city streets, giving them more powerful deportation-focused tech will amp up the damage. Congress Democrats must press for answers.

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Just Futures Law @justfutureslaw.bsky.social · 21d

ICE is using shady, beta-testing facial recognition app, Mobile Fortify, without offering a legal basis for its usage or the databases it connects with.

www.404media.co/congress-pus...

Congress Pushes DHS for Details on ICE’s New Facial Recognition App

404 Media first revealed ICE’s new app, called Mobile Fortify, in June. Now members of a congressional committee are pressing DHS for more information, including ICE's legal basis for using the app in...

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Paromania @paromitashah.bsky.social · 23d

It was an honor to accept this award on behalf of colleagues at @justfutureslaw.bsky.social and our grassroots partners who partner with us on litigation, policy and research. I admire them so much. And thanks to @eff.org for a hella fun night.

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 27d

@ParomitaShah.bsky.social of @justfutureslaw.bsky.social accepts the EFF Award: “I applaud all of us who are throwing sands in the gears of this authoritarian legal front.”

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Just Futures Law @justfutureslaw.bsky.social · 25d

Nexar, a dashcam company, takes photos of faces, license plates, and audio to sell to other companies.

This is why JFL advocates that the only way to prevent our data from falling into the wrong hands is to ensure they don't have access to it in the first place

This Company Turns Dashcams into ‘Virtual CCTV Cameras.’ Then Hackers Got In

A hacker has compromised Nexar, which turns peoples' cars into "virtual CCTV cameras" that organizations can then buy images from. The images include sensitive U.S. military and intelligence facilitie...

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Rebecca MacKinnon @rebecca-mackinnon.bsky.social · 26d

If you need a morale boost, you must watch this @eff.org award ceremony today. The acceptance speeches of the three awardees @mishi.bsky.social @erie.bsky.social and @justfutureslaw.bsky.social are so incredibly moving and inspiring.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 26d

@mishi.bsky.social accepted the 2025 EFF Award for Defending Digital Freedoms on behalf of @sflcin.bsky.social at the EFF Awards. You can hear her full speech TOMORROW at 12pm PT at EFF’s annual award ceremony livestream. Register now at eff.org/awards.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 27d

Congratulations to @justfutureslaw.bsky.social for receiving the 2025 EFF Award for Leading Immigration and Surveillance Litigation!

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 27d

@ParomitaShah.bsky.social of @justfutureslaw.bsky.social accepts the EFF Award: “I applaud all of us who are throwing sands in the gears of this authoritarian legal front.”

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 27d

To learn more about @justfutureslaw.bsky.social, check out our EFF Awards Spotlight: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

EFF Awards Spotlight ✨ Just Futures Law

In 1992 EFF presented our very first awards recognizing key leaders and organizations advancing innovation and championing civil liberties and human rights online. Now in 2025 we're continuing to

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 27d

@justfutureslaw.bsky.social has also worked with @GrassrootsNews.bsky.social to demand the release of people detained under Operation Lone Star and they produce reports and toolkits that explain how people can expose and fight surveillance technologies in their own communities.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 27d

In 2019, @justfutureslaw.bsky.social was formed by 4 women of color and, since then, JFL has filed lawsuits against Western Union, LexisNexis, and Clearview AI to protect the privacy and personal data of immigrants, protesters, and communities of color.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 27d

@jenlynch.bsky.social presents EFF Award for Leading Immigration and Surveillance Litigation to @JustFuturesLaw.bsky.social: “JFL uses the law, their longstanding connections, and their unique expertise to help immigrants, activists, organizers, and community groups fight back.”

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Just Futures Law @justfutureslaw.bsky.social · 27d

Thank you!

Just Futures Law @justfutureslaw.bsky.social · 27d

"The most powerful executives in America continue to kowtow to a president who is systematically dismantling the foundations of democracy; it may be time for another axiom: The only principle is power."

www.wired.com/story/tech-c...

All the President’s Tech CEOs

At a White House dinner Thursday night, America’s tech executives put on an uncanny display of fealty to Donald Trump.

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Just Futures Law @justfutureslaw.bsky.social · 28d

Let it be clear that Trump is sending soldiers and federal agents to punish Democratic-led cities and to cause panic in immigrant communities.

Our communities will continue to resist and protect migrant communities regardless of what comes our way.
www.nytimes.com/article/trum...

What We Know About Trump’s Crime and Immigration Crackdown in U.S. Cities

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Just Futures Law @justfutureslaw.bsky.social · Sep 8

Looking forward to celebrating with EFF soon!

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · Sep 6

Know before you go—EFF Awards:
WHERE? SF Design Center Galleria 🌁
WHEN? September 10 @ 6 PM 📆
FOOD AND DRINK? Yes! 🍺🍷🍕🌮 eff.org/effawards

EFF Awards 2025

For over 30 years, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has presented awards recognizing key leaders and organizations advancing innovation and championing digital rights. The EFF Awards celebrate the

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Just Futures Law @justfutureslaw.bsky.social · Sep 5

Though the Trump administration is continuing to pour billions of dollars into a militarized border, we must keep reminding ourselves that this can all be undone. A future where we invest in life-giving resources such as housing, education, NOT deadly borders, is possible. 🧵(4/4)

Just Futures Law @justfutureslaw.bsky.social · Sep 5

2024 had the most deaths of people crossing the borders. The one-sided border wars are strategically silenced
"Since enforcement targets some of the most vulnerable people on the planet—people who have suffered greatly from violence and persecution.."🧵 (3/4)

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Just Futures Law @justfutureslaw.bsky.social · Sep 5

"This has been in the making for a long time, from the Pentagon’s low-intensity conflict doctrine (which spawned border strategy in the 1980s, partly based on counterinsurgency operations in Central America) or in the aftermath of the 1848 Mexican-American War"🧵 (2/4)

Peacemaking in the Borderlands: A Reflection on the Farce of “Border Security”

Border “security” is an act of war. It’s time to look to the peacemakers, who just might hold the answers.

www.theborderchronicle.com

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Just Futures Law @justfutureslaw.bsky.social · Sep 5

A thread on how the border is now a site of unfathomable persecution, and how it has been years in the making. 🧵 (1/4)

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Just Futures Law @justfutureslaw.bsky.social · Sep 4

ICE officers show up and arrest firefighters as they are actively putting out fires.

There are no words to describe the cruelty and the lengths ICE is willing to go to reach the Trump administration's disturbing obsession with migrants.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Border Patrol arrested firefighters as they were battling a wildfire

Veteran firefighters worried a DHS raid on the Bear Gulch fire in Washington could make it more difficult to find contractor crews.

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Just Futures Law @justfutureslaw.bsky.social · Sep 3

CBP recently reached a record high number of intrusive phone, computer, and other device searches.

“This is essentially a limitless authority that they claim for themselves to search travelers without a warrant to search the full scope of information people carry on them,” Bhandari

Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High

Customs and Border Protection agents searched nearly 15,000 devices from April through June of this year, a nearly 17 percent spike over the previous three-month high in 2022. "The real issue is the c...

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