I wrote about Apple’s new iPhone security feature. innovation.consumerreports.org/apples-new-i...

NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work. Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours. She was later released with NO CHARGE. A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”. You decide…

"The parallels between writing and running are endless: set reasonable goals, show up and work toward them every day, be patient and methodical in your approach, embrace the grind, keep going when you want to quit, and eventually you’ll get where you want to go." - MF

I love it when nonprofit advocates secure wins in tech policy battles. Today, the new Google Pixel 10 is implementing the C2PA standard natively in the smartphone camera chip.... www.linkedin.com/posts/samgre...

Today @hrdag.org denounces violations of human rights by the US government—and reaffirms our commitment to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. hrdag.org/2025/10/21/h...

I’m proud of my organization @hrdag.org and my colleagues' courage to speak truth to power. Human rights and evidence must never bend to tyranny.  hrdag.org/2025/10/21/h...

"An administration headed by a president who just called upholstered furniture a national security threat cannot be trusted to invoke national security responsibly." freedom.press/issues/despi...

This. It comes down to whether we want the government policing ideas, and yeah… we don’t. Hateful speech should be met with denouncement, mockery, facts, or just ignoring it. But handing the government the power to silence speech it disagrees with is not only unconstitutional, it’s a bad idea.

Ah @yrfatfriend.bsky.social is such a breath of fresh air: “We can build a world that doesn’t assume fat people are failed thin people, or that thin people are categorically healthy and virtuous.” 💪 ❤️

HRDAG stands firmly with the human rights community in insisting that encryption is not optional — it is fundamental to the defense of truth. Any attempt to ban or backdoor encryption technology is a threat to the human rights community. hrdag.substack.com/p/without-en...

Really well-researched & well-reasoned article from @thefireorg.bsky.social exploring the many people (including many teachers) losing their jobs for celebrating Charlie Kirk's death. "We should remember we don’t win an argument by ruining someone’s life." www.thefire.org/news/we-are-...

A giant in the civil liberties field! We all owe a debt of gratitude to Cindy Cohn for her indelible leadership at @eff.org for so many years (and for being our legal counsel at @freedom.press since our founding in 2012).

I had a chance to work with Cindy for many years, and to be honest I often still refer to her as "boss." She always led EFF with integrity and courage. I wish her well in the next chapter; it'll be hard to beat 25 years at EFF.

End-to-end encryption is vital to protect journalists, human rights workers, and billions of people across the world. Read this important piece from @hrdag.org for why:

I can’t wait to read this.

"The idea of 'official' versus 'unofficial' press is a ridiculous invention, completely at odds with constitutional protections and civic norms." freedom.press/issues/journ...

One of my close friends shared this excellent article with me the other day and it's been on my mind ever since. Creative and academic labor for trans communities becomes doubly important under fascism. Scatter and keep working.

We’re data scientists, and like a lot of folks in the science world, we’ve found a home here on Bluesky. We also love our Mastodon community — still going strong. Ars Technica just covered the scientist migration off Twitter: arstechnica.com/science/2025...

"Any story that quotes an Israeli official or references Israeli allegations should say that Israel does not allow the international press to verify its claims and kills the local journalists who try," we told @aljazeera.com.

NEW from me: Stripe has issued a statement apologizing for its reps saying it prohibits LGBT content www.theverge.com/report/75892...

Learn how HRDAG and our partners built and improved custom LLMs to support transparency around police misconduct in California hrdag.org/2025/08/14/m...

This is a big, big deal. Spyware companies are rarely made to defend their practices against their targets in US courts, even when the consequences of their spying, in this case imprisonment and torture, is so severe. So great news that Alhathloul's case moves forward. www.eff.org/press/releas...

Transparency can be a powerful tool against police misconduct. @hrdag.org data scientist Tarak Shah helped to build a public, searchable database of police abuses in California. www.kqed.org/news/1205010...

“This is probably the worst thing in my view that has ever happened to our rights online,” EFF’s @thejasonkelley.com tells David Ruiz on @Malwarebytes.com’s Lock and Code podcast, discussing the security and privacy risks of online age verification. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/podcas...

Preach it, @randomwalker.bsky.social. I've worked with so many nonprofits, and I think an organically-grown newsletter community is so, so valuable. It takes time, but it's worth it. substack.com/@aisnakeoil/...

I'm happy to announce my new book, Transaction Denied, is available for pre-order. Pre-ordering is one of the best ways to support an author, especially new authors like me. I'd deeply appreciate any support, whether pre-orders or spreading the word. raineyreitman.com/2025/08/11/t...

Unforgivable

I'm a long distance runner, and I do two long runs a week: one on Friday morning before work and one on Saturdays. Which means on Fridays, I start my work day mid-morning. And on very rare occasions, I can't move an early morning Friday meeting and I have to skip my run...

How do human rights workers keep going in the face of evolving threats, whether legal, financial, or physical? Our approach is simple: scatter and keep working. Read more on Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-...

6. Chairman Ferguson, who took over the FTC this spring, called the complaint “weak.” Former Chair Lina Khan called Pepsi’s conduct a “patently illegal scheme.” That gulf demands sunlight. People should be able to judge for themselves.

If you're following the financial censorship story involving video game platforms Steam and Itch, a lot of the discussion has centered around how an anti-porn activist group pressure Visa and Mastercard, and that pressure trickled down to tons of NSFW video games being delisted....

In the United States? Doing advocacy, human rights, or civil liberties work? This is your reminder to back up your data, encrypt it, and store a copy in another country. #scatterandkeepworking

Decentralization matters. With dozens of terabytes of data describing human rights violations, @hrdag.org has ensured there are multiple backups of our data in multiple jurisdictions. Read more: substack.com/home/post/p-... #decentralization #dweb

Very proud of @freedom.press for uncovering this. Also, this blog post is fascinating; it exposes a censorship tool I hadn't heard of before.

The larger societal question is: do we want to task financial corporations with policing online content?

The more I learn about presidential libraries, the less sense they make.

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It's more importantly an illegal bribe!

"Paramount’s spineless decision to settle Trump’s baseless and patently unconstitutional lawsuit is an insult to the journalists of ‘60 Minutes’ and an invitation to Trump to continue targeting other news outlets." - @freedom.press

This is @eff.org's guide to protests: ✅ Disable your face/fingerprint unlock ✅ Back up your data ✅ Take photos without unlocking your phone ✅ Encrypt your phone ✅ Install @signal.org More great tips here: ssd.eff.org/module/atten...

I highly recommend subscribing to Structural Zero from @hrdag.org. Clear explanations of statistics and data science + human rights + cultural context = learning something new every month.

Sometimes, nonprofits can lose sight of their core theory of change. They can start to think complementary programs actually are the most important part. Here's how to recognize that and what to do about it. groundwork-consulting.com/2025/05/07/w...

Venting: I published an article in early 2019 about the issues later litigated in Moody. Other articles later made my exact same points, often without citing me. Now *those* articles get cited, while mine does not. www.hoover.org/sites/defaul...

Nonprofits, activists: you should have a backup plan for if you lose your bank account. Normally, that just means having a second bank account at a different institution from your primary bank account. You should keep at least one month's worth of expenses there, ideally two. (1/?)

Oh, hell yes. Tesla Takedown protest organizers tell Congress the obvious: without Section 230, current political organizing would be dead. For Democrats, undermining 230 protection right now would be a self-own for the ages and truly catastrophic. thehill.com/policy/techn...

Another reason to love @freedom.press.

If you only listen to one podcast about what the heck is happening with the FTC, this should be it: Organized Money interviews Commissioner @bedoyaftc.bsky.social on the President's attempt to fire him and Commissioner Slaughter. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I meet exhausted and burnt out nonprofit managers all the time. But it doesn't have to be that way. By bringing some thoughtful intentionality to your time management, you can claw back your days and make them feel spacious and productive again. groundwork-consulting.com/2025/03/04/4...

The president is trying to illegally fire me. Who does this help? Does it help you? Or does it help the billionaires over the president’s shoulder at the inauguration?