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✨🌈 Home of Digital Rights Defenders @teamcommunity.bsky.social · 3d

A major vote is planned for 13 or 14 October in the EU. Governments will decide whether to endorse or reject a mass surveillance, encryption-breaking and anonymity-ending law: the EU CSA Regulation.

✨🌈 Home of Digital Rights Defenders @teamcommunity.bsky.social · 4d

Vodafone said it had made the world's first video call via satellite using a standard smartphone from a remote location, and it plans to roll out the technology for its users across Europe later this year and in 2026. buff.ly/r9fKrFo

✨🌈 Home of Digital Rights Defenders @teamcommunity.bsky.social · 4d

Leaders across the political spectrum are calling on American tech firms to stop selling surveillance equipment to Chinese police and for Congress to examine the issue after the AP reported that U.S. tech had played a far greater role than known in enabling human rights abuses.

Lawmakers and activists call for action after AP reveals US tech role in China's surveillance state

Lawmakers and activists are urging U.S. tech firms to stop selling surveillance equipment to Chinese police.

✨🌈 Home of Digital Rights Defenders @teamcommunity.bsky.social · 5d

By 2029, all UK workers will need digital identity cards, which will live on their mobile phones and become a mandatory check for employers hiring staff. These ID cards will also be necessary to access services such as tax records, childcare, and welfare.

UK's digital ID cards: Immigration crackdown or privacy threat? | Context by TRF

All British workers will need digital identity cards by the end of this parliament. What are the benefits and concerns?

✨🌈 Home of Digital Rights Defenders @teamcommunity.bsky.social · 5d

Microsoft has ended the use of some of its Azure Cloud storage tech by the Israeli military Unit 8200 in mass surveillance of Palestinians following a joint investigation by the Guardian, Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language media outlet Local Call. buff.ly/qtNrTFp

Update on ongoing Microsoft review - Microsoft On the Issues

Brad Smith, Vice Chair & President, shared the below communication with Microsoft employees this morning. I want to let you know that Microsoft has ceased and disabled a set of services to a unit…

✨🌈 Home of Digital Rights Defenders @teamcommunity.bsky.social · 5d

Grant deadlines fast approaching: Civic Innovation Fund – Oct 20; WSA Young Innovators Award – Oct 31; ACLS Digital Justice Grants – Nov 20; AI Reporting Grant – Dec 31
👉 More opportunities: buff.ly/eePuaP4

Fundraising Opportunities - TCU Wiki

Do you have a funding opportunity you want to share? Send it to us using our simple online form. We will post it here and in Weekly Digital Rights Newsletter. Make sure to sign up!

✨🌈 Home of Digital Rights Defenders @teamcommunity.bsky.social · 5d

Also just added today: Campaign Director, Institute of Free Technology, and Programmes Weaver, Numun Fund

✨🌈 Home of Digital Rights Defenders @teamcommunity.bsky.social · 6d

⚠️ Internet Shutdowns in Africa have doubled in less than a decade, plunging millions into digital darkness. Ethiopia, Sudan, and Algeria top the list, with over 193 shutdowns in 8 years.

Q&A-Africa's internet shutdowns double in less than a decade | Context by TRF

Internet shutdowns doubled across Africa since 2016, with governments using blackouts to control information and suppress dissent

✨🌈 Home of Digital Rights Defenders @teamcommunity.bsky.social · 6d

🎪 Mark your calendars for upcoming digital rights events!
Oct 14 | EFF: How Surveillance Targets Women & Gender-Queer People (Washington State) buff.ly/3uxAQ47
Oct 29–31 | Bread&Net (Beirut) buff.ly/gOKwVmU

How Surveillance Targets Women and Gender-Queer People

EFF will host this event at the University of Washington. How Surveillance Targets Women and Gender-Queer PeopleJoin us for "How Surveillance Targets Women and Gender-Queer People" at the University…

✨🌈 Home of Digital Rights Defenders @teamcommunity.bsky.social · 6d

This week's Digital Rights Job Board roundup. To see these and other jobs visit: buff.ly/kdeppG4 - Part-Time System Admin, @apc.org (Remote); Full Stack Developer, McGovern Foundation (Remote, USA); Senior Technologist, @knightgtown.bsky.social (DC or remote); Digital Ethicist, IKEA (Sweden)

Find a Job | Digital Rights Job Board

The Digital Rights Job Board has opportunities in over 144+ countries at the intersection of human rights, technology and social justice. Kickstart your tech and human rights career, find a social…

✨🌈 Home of Digital Rights Defenders @teamcommunity.bsky.social · 8d

A new study reveals that virtual private network (#VPN) connections provide less safety than widely believed. The findings are alarming, especially for users in authoritarian states. The list of shortcomings begins with opaque ownership structures

Anything but safe: Using VPN can bear immense risks – DW – 09/20/2025

A new study reveals that virtual private network (VPN) connections provide less safety than widely believed. The findings are alarming, especially for users in authoritarian states.

✨🌈 Home of Digital Rights Defenders @teamcommunity.bsky.social · 8d

A quiet coup is taking place — not in parliaments or palaces, but in the invisible infrastructure of the internet. Check out @kkomaitis.bsky.social piece detailing recent investigations on how its being repurposed, commercialized, and exported as a tool of repression.

The Internet Coup Is Here. And the World Is Still Asleep | TechPolicy.Press

At UNGA 80, the world’s leaders have a chance to prove that they understand what is at stake, writes Konstantinos Komaitis.

✨🌈 Home of Digital Rights Defenders @teamcommunity.bsky.social · 9d

The @acls1919.bsky.social has an open call for their Digital Justice Seed grants for projects that diversify the digital domain, advance justice and equity in digital scholarly practice, and/or contribute to understanding of racial/social justice issues. Deadline: November 20, 2025

ACLS Digital Justice Grants

The ACLS Digital Justice Grant program is designed to address the inequities in the access to support for digital work across various fields.

✨🌈 Home of Digital Rights Defenders @teamcommunity.bsky.social · 9d

InDiCo-Global has an open call. Funding is to promote European Digital/ICT in African Union, China, Eastern Partnership, India, Latin America and Caribbean, Southeast Asia, Western Balkans. Deadline: June 30, 2026

InDiCo- Global Third Open Call | Indico Global Grants

InDiCo-Global will provide € 1.000.000 of funding to promote European digital/ICT standards in target countries/regions (African Union, China, Eastern Partnership, India, Latin America and Caribbean,…

✨🌈 Home of Digital Rights Defenders @teamcommunity.bsky.social · 11d

The digital rights movement faces a funding crisis, autocratic tech, and fragmentation. The antidote? Radically networking its resources and agenda. Great piece by @claudioruiz.com

Networks over organizations: An infrastructural revolution for digital rights

The digital rights movement faces a funding crisis, autocratic tech, and fragmentation. The antidote? Radically networking its resources and agenda.

✨🌈 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),…

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

@pulitzercenter.org seeks applications for their reporting initiative focused on AI and surveillance technologies and their impact on communities around the world. Deadline: December 31, 2025

AI Reporting Grants

We seek applications for our reporting initiative focused on AI and surveillance technologies and their impact on communities around the world. We value accountability and data reporting...

✨🌈 Home of Digital Rights Defenders @teamcommunity.bsky.social · 13d

📣 September Job Round-Up at the Digital Rights Job Board. Head to → digitalrights.community/job-board to see full list.

• Android Developer, Calyx Institute
• Communications Outreach and Engagement Lead, @apc.org
• Director of Advancement, Let's Encrypt

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David @ InnoVirtuoso @innovirtuoso.bsky.social · 13d

Always enable two-factor authentication (2FA) on your accounts for an extra layer of security. It makes it harder for hackers to access your information! #CyberAware #CyberTips

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IFEX @ifex.org · 22d

🌐 Learn how IFEX members are using the Collaboration Code to build stronger partnerships, amplify diverse voices, and confront emerging challenges like #AI and policy threats to free expression & information in @teamcommunity.bsky.social's Community Series. buff.ly/ttQ9N3I

✨🌈 Home of Digital Rights Defenders @teamcommunity.bsky.social · Aug 1

The @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social Research Fellowship is for early career researchers focusing on research and establishing scientific independence. Candidates are expected to be a maximum of PhD + 4 years and applicants can be UK nationals or international. Deadline: August 18. buff.ly/kkKMmG6

✨🌈 Home of Digital Rights Defenders @teamcommunity.bsky.social · Aug 1

💼 New_Public is #hiring a Frontend Engineer, Public Spaces Incubator! See this and other job openings in our Digital Rights Job Board: buff.ly/3BcDSOJ #TechJobs #DRJobs #JobSearch

Find a Job | Digital Rights Job Board

The Digital Rights Job Board has opportunities in over 144+ countries at the intersection of human rights, technology and social justice. Kickstart your tech and human rights career, find a social…

✨🌈 Home of Digital Rights Defenders @teamcommunity.bsky.social · Jul 31

🩵👑 @ifex.org believes that strong collaboration among civil society organizations (CSOs) is key in the face of increasing threats to freedom of expression, digital rights and internet freedom. Read their story in our last Community Series. buff.ly/HbXdl8v

✨🌈 Home of Digital Rights Defenders @teamcommunity.bsky.social · Jul 31

@equalitie.bsky.social is using a billboard in New York’s iconic Times Square to urge Americans to resist cuts to U.S. foreign aid. Their director shared “A retreat by the United States will mean that the weight balances in favour of digital authoritarianism” meadowlakenow.com/2025/07/25/m...

Montreal group takes campaign to restore U.S. foreign aid to Times Square

OTTAWA - A Montreal-based organization promoting democracy and digital rights is using a billboard in New York...

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✨🌈 Home of Digital Rights Defenders @teamcommunity.bsky.social · Jul 31

🌬️💼 Did you know we can advertise your #JobOpportunity in our #newsletter which reaches more than 7,000 people? If you are an employer and are trying to find specialists in technology, human rights, and social justice submit your job opportunity here! buff.ly/H2UGIVp #TechJobs #DRJobs #JobSearch

Your job opportunity will be posted on both on our Digital Rights Job Board and in our Weekly Digital Rights Newsletter. Note, it may take a few days for us to process it. If you are interested in…