When platforms are forced to block “anything that might harm kids,” the result is overreach. A real rights-respecting solution to keeping people safe online is one that's built on user control, privacy, and smart design, not censorship. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Both Windows and Mac computers include a free way to encrypt your entire storage drive. You should turn it on, if you haven't already. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

When I started drawing this back in July for this year’s enamel pin, I didn’t expect it to get this bad this quickly. I own a domain to go with this pin about censorship, but I haven’t had time to actually do something with it. Stay tuned.

NEW: @makenakelly.bsky.social reports it like it is www.wired.com/story/brenda...

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

New from me: Filings from a Virginia lawsuit offer a rare insight into how often Flock automatic license plate readers track people going about their daily lives: Multiple times a day, and hundreds over a period of a few months this year.

Evergreen:

I need to watch the whole thing again to cleanse my palate.

I’m at an anniversary screening of Hackers. And the folks hosting edited the movie down to 1 hour. I am crying inside.

Evergreen:

Age assurance methods in the NY Attorney General’s proposed rules are not “both privacy-protective and entirely accurate,” EFF’s @aaronmackey.bsky.social told @Gothamist.com. “They each have their own flaws that threaten everyone's privacy and speech rights.” gothamist.com/news/tiktok...

I’m more used to saying this to people on the Left than people on the Right, but, “hate speech” is not an exception to the First Amendment. “Hate speech” is protected by the First Amendment unless it falls into a traditional established exception.

People don’t even want to educate themselves with science and facts. You think they’re going to care about being at a “cognitive disadvantage”? He is unable to anticipate/predict what technology people want. He was lucky once-so now he’s trying to prove to himself that it’s skill and not luck.

:logs on: :looks around: I can see today was yet another /totally normal/ day in a well functioning democracy. :logs off:

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

NEW: Apple launched a new security feature specifically to fight against spyware and zero-day exploit makers. We spoke to a researcher who sells zero-days to the U.S. government, who thinks this will make their life much harder and raise the cost of developing and selling hacking tolls for iPhones.

The Federal Trade Commission is investigating generative A.I. chatbots: www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

Inspiration hit. All the new stickers arrived today! thegarbagefile.etsy.com

The timing of this new Banksy is impeccable given the way SCOTUS ruled today.

SCOTUS has destroyed themselves as an institution.

Reporters from across newsrooms in Chicago are collaborating to collect visual evidence of federal agents detaining people & using force in Chicago. Send videos to tinyurl.com/chicagojourn..., or get in touch via email [email protected].

Being from Chicago, many people talk to me about Chicago corruption. What most don’t understand is that the corruption has persisted without much fanfare or complaint because: Chicago is corrupt for the people.

Wrote up some thoughts for how Okta is getting squeezed from all sides: squished by Rippling at the bottom, Msft at the top, and other markets and startups in the middle. I hope you love some red string diagrams 🤣 ventureinsecurity.net/p/the-unbund...

New from 404 Media: Congress demanding answers on ICE's new facial recognition app 'Mobile Fortify'. App taps into an unprecedented no. databases, uses the same system as when people enter/exit the U.S. Now turned inwards. Directly in response to us revealing the app www.404media.co/congress-pus...

It seems no one learned anything from War Games.

The ads between emails on the web version of Gmail is so problematic. And sometimes they move where they’re located while you’re sifting through those emails. Glad they’re finally getting scrutinized over this.

Proud to see our executive director, @michaeljaylissner.com quoted in today’s NYT on the recent PACER hack. This article provides a history of security failures in PACER, beginning with the one he reported in 2017. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Vaccines are one of the greatest scientific achievements in modern history. They have saved countless people. The rejection of vaccines and the science behind it is nothing short of stupid. Vaccinate yourselves, your children, and your pets.

I hate this timeline. Vaccinate your pets, especially against rabies.

Keep up with the different surveillance technologies police are using across the U.S., from body-worn cameras to cell-site simulators. Stay informed using the Atlas of Surveillance. atlasofsurveillance.org/

Another day another horrific data breach. And nothing will happen to any of the execs at TransUnion who allowed this to happen.

Surveillance company Flock, which has given data to DHS, wants to partner with a firm that sells dash cams to everyday drivers. 🔗 www.404media.co/flock-wants-...

Every word of this important piece by @stevevladeck.bsky.social: 174. Justice Gorsuch's Attack on Lower Courts open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...

It was under the previous administration. The FTC was trying to make it easy to cancel.

The Fourth Estate is no more.

New from 404 Media: Customs and Border Protection had direct access to more than 80,000 Flock cameras around the U.S. We previously reported local cops were doing lookups for ICE. Turned out CBP had its own access. Flock says it has now "paused all federal pilots" www.404media.co/cbp-had-acce...

Every day we get a new scandal that should be career-ending for people working at the highest levels of government but we see this stuff so often the public barely flinches. Today, we learn DHS isn't keeping text message records for its leaders americanoversight.org/american-ove...

I can’t stand support chat bots. It’s so hard to get good customer support these days.

New: inside the underground trade of Flipper Zero tech to steal cars. Right now it's $$$, but people are cracking software to make it free. When this gets out, it will supercharge car thefts. So many modern cars vulnerable. "Kia Boys will be Flipper Boys by 2026" www.404media.co/inside-the-u...

People don’t want this. Wanting this is not normal. It’s weird.

YouTube is testing AI on your videos without consent. Today it’s filters. Tomorrow, who decides what’s real www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The US Administration is now deleting its internal communications, in brazen violation of the Federal Records Act, in order to conceal its other illegal acts. Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.

Yahhhh… the wonder is gone.

We applaud the Ninth Circuit for protecting our privacy and limiting an intrusive method copyright trolls use to unmask alleged copyright infringers without a judge's permission. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

BREAKING: We're filing a petition for the immediate release of Mario Guevara, a journalist who is being detained by ICE because of his reporting on law enforcement activity. The First Amendment is clear: Journalists cannot be detained for doing their jobs.

When I worked in NYC post 9/11, NYPD would periodically do bag checks. I & a lot of folks walked a lot extra to avoid allowing our bags to be searched on principle. I remember this as a Big Thing. Here's states with Stop and Identify laws, DC is not on there: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_an...

Choosing your security and privacy tools is an ongoing process, not a one-time purchase or download. ssd.eff.org/en/module/c...

Incredible new privacy risk: Redditor recounts doing a job interview over Zoom with an AI notetaker on the call (Fathom). After the applicant left the call, the interviewers stayed on to discuss/bash her. She then got their post-call remarks in the AI summary. www.reddit.com/r/interviews...

I think the thing that kills me about the current conversation around AI is that no one seems to be having a genuine, realistic conversation about what is currently possible and what will be possible in the near term. These takes are… bad sci fi.

This is not ok. This is not democratic.