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Victory! Court Ends Dragnet Electricity Surveillance Program in For more than a decade, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District coordinated with police to sift through the granular smart meter data of residents without suspicion to find evidence of cannabis

Smart meter data can reveal intimate details inside your home. A court just ruled police can’t run dragnet surveillance on that data. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?

We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

Folks, Giving Tuesday is around the corner and this is my yearly PSA that while you may be annoyed with nonprofits raising money that day, please be kind especially this year. It's been BRUTAL trying to raise money in 2025.

🎉🎉🎉🚨🚨🚨Oakland city council just rejected plan to go forward with exorbitantly expensive Flock camera deal!!!!!!! 🚨🚨🚨🎉🎉🎉

OAKLAND: City Council is slowly filling with residents here to make sure the Town tells ALPRs to Flock off. Come down and show your opposition to the surveillance state NOW

Can We Meme the British Museum Into Doing the Right Thing? The once and always profiteer of colonial looting is once again getting flak in the wake of the Louvre heists.

The British Museum’s reputation as a symbol of imperial looting is so well established that as soon as robbers fled with France’s crown jewels, people from all over were telling the London institution to turn out its pockets.

I was not prepared for how much Final Destination is about magical thinking OCD

Surveillance isn’t “out there” anymore—it’s on our streets. Help EFF fight surveillance today: takebackctrl.org

@chucktingle.bsky.social is working on new bestseller, I see.

A hand lifts a phone above a crowd to record.

The internet and technology—originally built as tools of freedom—are being used as weapons of tyranny. So what do we do? We Take Back CTRL. takebackctrl.org

Anyone who has ever worked in exhibitions can tell you: no matter the storied institution, museum security is shockingly bad.

📢 BREAKING NEWS 📢
EFF and co-counsel have filed a lawsuit against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of First Amendment-protected speech online. (1/5)

Cloaked & EFF: Secure Your World, Protect Their Future · Zoom · Luma For Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Cloaked’s CEO Arjun Bhatnagar is connecting with the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Legislative Activist Rin Alajaji to…

EFF’s Rin Alajaji will be joining Cloaked’s CEO Arjun Bhatnagar for a webinar, “Secure Your World, Protect Their Future”, on October 14 at 1:30pm EST. The webinar will highlight the impact of individual privacy actions on personal, family, and network safety. Register today! luma.com/vh7vp0km

AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America With more than 80,000 AI-powered cameras across the U.S., Flock Safety has become one of cops’ go-to surveillance tools. Now CEO Garrett Langley has both police tech giant Axon and Chinese drone maker...

Oh sure when Flock does it its a "noble goal" but when I put 50 cameras pointing at my neighbors house, I'm being a "creep" and "harassing them" and "living in a paranoid fantasy where everyone is stealing my garden lanterns"
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No, Your iPhone Isn't Listening to You. Here's What's Really Happening There are lots of reasons an ad pops up on your phone, but none involve a microphone listening.

"The unsettling feeling that your device is spying on you is real — but the culprit isn't a secret microphone. It's the data broker industry," EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social tells @CNET.com. www.cnet.com/tech/servic...

If you are alarmed by the rise of these attacks on the open internet and what it’s doing to destroy platforms you love, @eff.org is fighting to keep the internet open and stop horrible ideas like identification checks. You can support that vital work here: eff.org/anil

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, or Marvel.

I think Summer of Love must be a right wing dog whistle-- heard a MAGA family member use it and it was not intended literally or kindly 🙃

is my replicator spying on me

on the other hand Love Island season 12 started streaming in the US today, so I got that going for me, which is nice

Yes, You Have the Right to Film ICE Across the United States, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has already begun increasing enforcement operations, including highly publicized raids. As immigrant communities, families, allies, ...

Just going to leave this here. Just in case.

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You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

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We are excited to launch our new member t-shirt for 2025! Donate at the Copper Level or above to receive our new Cityscape t-shirt. eff.org/35years

35 Years for Privacy, Free Speech, and a Brighter Future Through July 10, new monthly or annual Sustaining Donors get an EFF35 Challenge Coin! With your help, EFF is here to stay.

Become a Sustaining Donor today and:
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I can’t remember the book for the life of me but I remember someone doing some really cool research around UFO/airship sightings and their relationship to collective trauma

One animal was harmed in the making of this birthday photo

Figured out SFMOMA sold my data when I got junk mail addressed to the friend with whom I shared a dual membership 🤦🏻‍♀️

Tommy Cashin Estonia's Eurovision video, being lifted through sky by 3coffee bean balloons.

When the caffeine hits