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This could be super useful for journalists and local civics nerds — in one place, neighborhood-level shapefiles and 2020 demographic data for 206 US cities that have "city-defined neighborhoods" paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... data: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

My “I don’t sell data to foreign actors tee…”

EFF’s @maassive.bsky.social talked with Editor & Publisher about working with @freedom.press and the University of Texas, El Paso to create a security curriculum to train journalists working at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

Nothing motivated me during bar miseries more than the mantra “the country is run by fucking morons that have passed this gods forsaken test, and you’re smarter than those ghouls.”

Don't get me wrong: I'm relieved that this case is shaping up as either 8-1 or 7-2 against the Trump executive order. But the case is a gift to the Supreme Court. By rejecting an outlandish position, it will earn credibility as apolitical, even as the Overton window moves far to the right.

When the birthright citizenship decision comes out, people will say it could never have gone any other way, that the law was obvious. But the mere fact that SCOTUS took on the case is evidence enough that we are living in a time of democratic precarity.

PRESIDENT: "We should have a national database of all legal US gun owners." CONSERVATIVES: "YOU CAN'T DO THAT! THAT IS UNAMERICAN!! YOU CAN'T TRACK AMERICAN CITIZENS!!! IT'S AGAINST OUR LIBERTY!!!!" PRESIDENT: "We will have a national database of all legal US voters." CONSERVATIVES: [yawn]

A single vote for Trump in the birthright citizenship case would be as bad as anything the Court has done since Bush v. Gore. This issue has been settled for more than a century. It is the jurisprudential equivalent of asking what 2+2 is. Any answer other than 4, something is deeply, deeply wrong.

BREAKING: President Trump has issued an unlawful executive order attempting to severely restrict mail-in voting. The Constitution is clear: Only the states or Congress can change election laws.

Thomson Reuters’ data, which can include peoples’ addresses and details on their ethnicity, is linked to tools used ICE. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/how-thomson-...

Starting in 15 minutes Pacific Time: Watch EFF's Cindy Cohn on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, discussing her decades of fighting for your digital privacy. From the Crypto Wars of the 1990s, to the NSA’s internet spying revealed in the 2000s, and onto this very day. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

By far and away the best piece written about this court case and its implications

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons. openai.com/index/our-ag...

Every month the United States provides even more reason to boycott its products and companies — the strikes on Iran being just the latest. In light of that, it’s a great time to ditch the products and services of US tech companies. I made a comprehensive guide to help you.

The problem when ppl in a panoptic surveillance paradigm say they want to "do better than this" is that they mean they want perfect, error-free surveillance tech & not only is that functionally impossible, it's not morally desirable, even if it were. It'd still be a panoptic surveillance paradigm…

Gods damned fucking shameful.

I’d love to know how Democrats rationalize sitting and taking it from a guy with a 36% approval.

In many cases, the Flock destruction was clearly intended as a public message, as in Eugene, OR, where the saboteurs left note at the scene that read "Hahaha get wrecked ya surveilling fucks." The message was carried on the local news. At the end of the year, Eugene terminated its Flock contract.

We got leaked documents about Alpha School. We also talk about what happens when someone decides to make an AI OnlyFans in your name, and the AI tool cops are buying to geolocate photos.

Progressive lawmakers who care about human rights desperately need to connect these dots. You can't claim to oppose the Trump admin's authoritarian crackdowns while supporting legislation that would expand Trump's censorship and surveillance powers. Protect activists! Oppose online ID checks.

If you have to upload your ID or submit to facial recognition to create an account that posts about ICE abuses in your neighborhood 1) many people will self-censor and won't do this in the first place, for fear of retaliation, and 2) the government will unmask & persecute ppl for their speech

For years, human rights advocates have been warning that mandatory online ID checks are a death sentence for activists, journalists, and ordinary people resisting authoritarian regimes, for this exact reason. Forcibly associating online activity with your government name puts dissidents in danger.

The Department of Homeland Security is flooding social media platforms with subpoenas demanding they unmask the people behind anti-ICE accounts. This crackdown on speech shows EXACTLY why online age verification laws are so dangerous. Here's why: 🧵

Behind police tech's slick marketing is a sprawling, under-scrutinized industry that relies on manufacturing the appearance of effectiveness, not measuring it. EFF partnered with CJJ and IPVM on a new report to help you see through the spin: www.eff.org/document/se...

whoa shit I want to be just like these shirtless weird repellent dudes

The Wisconsin Senate is voting on S.B. 130/A.B. 105, a problematic age verification bill that effectively bans VPN access to certain websites. If you live in Wisconsin, now is the time for you to contact your State Senator and urge them to vote down this bill. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

You know, like Ted Bundy

“The robot dogs are not armed, but each unit incorporates video cameras, night vision, and communication systems that are used to issue warnings or instructions.”

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

They should just hire 404Media as the inspector general of government surveillance tech. It would be more efficient and more accurate.

It perpetuated a racist trope because it is a racist trope because it is racist

Just masks-off racism now, I guess.

Today at 10:00 PST (18:00 UK time), @eff.org is hosting a town hall on ICE, CBP, and Digital Rights to discuss ways to stay safer and how the digital rights community can help address brutality against immigrants and all those involved in holding ICE accountable. www.eff.org/event/town-h...

LISTEN: EFF’s Beryl Lipton joined @WBUR.org’s On Point to explore the AI surveillance state. From your online browsing habits to traffic cameras on your commute and more, AI helps gather, store and share detailed information about you faster than ever. www.wbur.org/onpoint/202...

Informer systems are the traditional tool used by repressive regimes for domestic intelligence gathering to penetrate organizations and social circles. I view Palantir as the modern analog because it seeks a technical substitute for the same problem of capturing presence, identity, and association.

Sign up to our new newsletter, Tracker: ICE in Focus, to get invaluable @wired.com reporting on what’s happening and what’s coming next as federal agents continue to carry out Trump’s program of mass deportation. 📩

I know I’m not super engaged here but I am surprised by the apparent lack of he-shit-himself-on-tv discourse.

Turns out redacting is a process that should entail more than ctrl+f’ing “trump”

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Join EFF's online town hall to discuss ways to stay safer and how the digital rights community can help address ICE and CBP's brutality against immigrants, observers, and those seeking to hold them accountable. Livestream on Thursday at 10 AM PT. eff.org/livestream-ice

“Pointing out that AI is prone to giving ICE bad information is missing the entire point of ICE,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @RollingStone.com. “They don’t care if the information they have is good.” www.rollingstone.com/culture/cul...

She’s always right.

Trying to understand all of the ins and outs of digital security can be overwhelming, but our team at EFF is here to help. With our security starter pack, you can take a few simple steps to improve your digital privacy. ssd.eff.org/playlist/wa...

NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to... www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

“Most of the reports the charity receives involve wearable health technology like smartwatches and rings, but she said abusers are also using smart locks, heating technology, and even fertility trackers to manipulate and control victims.”