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Rebecca MacKinnon @rebecca-mackinnon.bsky.social · 12h

Now is a great time to improve your online security practices. 👇👇👇

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 1d

If you want to start taking steps to enhance your digital security, it can be hard to know where to start. Here are some simple concepts and tips. ssd.eff.org/en/playlist...

Want a security starter pack?

Start from the beginning with a selection of simple steps. Surveillance impacts all of us, no matter where we live or what we do. While some of us might be directly affected, others may simply want to know what measures they can take to protect their communications and data from...

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 12h

This is why neither the companies profiting from a technology nor the agencies deploying it can be trusted to tell the full story about how it's being used. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a

New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 13h

EFF's newest t-shirt just dropped: "Let's Sue the Government!" Because... sometimes you have to 🧑‍⚖️ Grab one today: shop.eff.org/products/le...

EFF's Let's Sue The Government" shirt on a ringer tee

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 3d

Supervisor Dorsey, at a moment when the federal government is threatening to invade San Francisco, we need more ways of holding illegal police surveillance accountable, not less. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Hey, San Francisco, There Should be Consequences When Police Spy

A San Francisco supervisor has proposed that police and other city agencies should have no financial consequences for breaking a landmark surveillance oversight law. In 2019, organizations from

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 3d

Tile could avoid these issues by implementing the Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers standard we’ve been pushing for. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Tile’s Lack of Encryption Is a Danger for Users Everywhere

In research shared with Wired this week, security researchers detailed a series of vulnerabilities and design flaws with Life360’s Tile Bluetooth trackers that make it easy for stalkers and the

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Rebecca MacKinnon @rebecca-mackinnon.bsky.social · 3d

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Rebecca MacKinnon @rebecca-mackinnon.bsky.social · 3d

Fyi @ivansigal.bsky.social @freeourfeeds.com

Dave Winer @scripting.com · 4d

The idea is to build a social network entirely out of replaceable parts, and the web. No silos, no centralization. Just the web.

But you're running inside of Atproto, so if we work toward the same goal, we can set up a very nice connect between the web an whatever Bluesky's world will look like.

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Kate Ruane @kateruane.bsky.social · 5d

A gentle reminder that Wikipedia is a global treasure and that if you dislike what you see on there the door is open to you to contribute to the community.
Radical transparency and cooperation is how Wikipedia works:
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Keeping information reliable in the digital age: Lessons from Wikipedia

A new series explores how Wikipedia can inspire new standards of knowledge integrity for our times

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 6d

For more tips, check out EFF’s guide to protecting yourself from location data brokers: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2....

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 6d

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 6d

When a corporation surveils us in violation of a data privacy law, we suffer a real privacy harm. That should be enough to have our day in court. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Privacy Harm Is Harm

Every day, corporations track our movements through license plate scanners, building detailed profiles of where we go, when we go there, and who we visit. When they do this to us in violation of data

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Rebecca MacKinnon @rebecca-mackinnon.bsky.social · 6d

We are not afraid. We at the @wikimediafoundation.org will keep doing our jobs defending and protecting the right of @wikipedia.org's volunteer communities to write, edit, and govern content on projects dedicated to sharing encyclopedic content across borders.
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The speech wars come for Wikipedia

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 9d

Someone should probably inform the White House's "AI & Crypto Czar" that no one is forcing AI companies to train their models on Wikipedia

Tweet by David Sacks: "Wikipedia is hopelessly biased. An army of left-wing activists maintain the bios and fight reasonable corrections. Magnifying the problem, Wikipedia often appears first in Google search results, and now it’s a trusted source for AI model training. This is a huge problem."

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Rebecca MacKinnon @rebecca-mackinnon.bsky.social · 6d

Meta is taking targeted advertising to the next level, leveraging AI chats. #surveillancestatecapitalism www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Meta Mines Your Chatbot Discussions to Serve More Personal Ads

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Riley Griffin reports on Meta Platforms Inc.’s decision to use conversat...

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Rebecca MacKinnon @rebecca-mackinnon.bsky.social · 6d

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The 3 building blocks of trustworthy information: Lessons from Wikipedia – Wikimedia Foundation

A new series explores how Wikipedia can inspire new standards of knowledge integrity for our times.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 7d

Apple must continue to refuse the demand to create a backdoor into iCloud. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The UK Is Still Trying to Backdoor Encryption for Apple Users

The Financial Times reports that the U.K. is once again demanding that Apple create a backdoor into its encrypted backup services. The only change since the last time they demanded this is that the

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Rebecca MacKinnon @rebecca-mackinnon.bsky.social · 6d

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 7d

Don't miss this: EFF & Roxie Theater present 1984!
✅ Discounted tickets with code BIGBROTHER25
✅ Meet us in the lobby before the show!
✅ Proceeds support EFF
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EFF at the Roxie Theater: 1984 Showing

EFF is thrilled to partner with the Roxie Theater for a special screening of the iconic film 1984. Before the movie, we'll share a bit about our work defending privacy and free speech online. You can

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Rebecca MacKinnon @rebecca-mackinnon.bsky.social · 6d

Happy International Day of Non-Violence, everyone! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...

International Day of Non-Violence - Wikipedia

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Rebecca MacKinnon @rebecca-mackinnon.bsky.social · 6d

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 7d

Let's be clear a what's happening here: the "censorship" and "bias" narrative is being extended to Wikipedia bc the far right knows that getting bullshit into LLMs is how to shape reality as "answer engines" replace search engines.

Wikipedia is core to that fight so the grievance blitz is here.

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Bryn Nelson @seattlebryn.bsky.social · 7d

Because Wikipedia is one of the few info sources that extremists can’t control (it relies on cited & fact-checked material), they naturally want to shut it down. It’s long been a goal of the Project 2025 authoritarians. Also, many of the blacklisted “sources” are blatant propaganda. Sputnik News? 🙄

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 7d

Let's be clear a what's happening here: the "censorship" and "bias" narrative is being extended to Wikipedia bc the far right knows that getting bullshit into LLMs is how to shape reality as "answer engines" replace search engines.

Wikipedia is core to that fight so the grievance blitz is here.

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Rebecca MacKinnon @rebecca-mackinnon.bsky.social · 7d

a little girl wearing a leopard print shirt is making a face

ALT: a little girl wearing a leopard print shirt is making a face

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Rebecca MacKinnon @rebecca-mackinnon.bsky.social · 7d

Attention Californians.

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 8d

EFF, in coalition with several other CA organizations, is pushing @governor.ca.gov to sign AB 566, a bill that will make it easier for Californians to exercise their privacy rights, into law. But we need your help to put on the pressure. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

California: Tweet at Governor Newsom to Get A.B. 566 Signed Into Law

We need your help to make a common-sense bill into California law. A.B. 566 intends to make it easy by directing browsers to give all their users the option to tell companies they don’t want personal

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Rebecca MacKinnon @rebecca-mackinnon.bsky.social · 7d

Denmark is a member of the Freedom Online Coalition and ought to know better.

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 7d

The Danish Presidency is pushing a dangerous proposal in the EU that would allow the government to scan all our private communications. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Chat Control Is Back on the Menu in the EU. It Still Must Be Stopped

The European Union Council is once again debating its controversial message scanning proposal, aka “Chat Control,” that would lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of people. Chat

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Rebecca MacKinnon @rebecca-mackinnon.bsky.social · 7d

Basic guidance for protecting yourself in the era of Surveillance State Capitalism.

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 7d

Welcome to Opt Out October, our collection of tips to slowly break free from online surveillance and throw sand in the gears of overreaching large tech companies. Today’s tip is about establishing good online security fundamentals. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security

Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a time it makes the process of protecting your privacy

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