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35 Years for Privacy & Free Speech EFF is on a mission to protect your civil liberties and human rights wherever they meet tech, but it’s only possible with your help.

EFF has your back, no matter if you’re online or on the streets. That’s why we’re working on projects like Privacy Badger and our Surveillance Self-Defense guides. Help support our work by becoming a member today: eff.org/join

Digital sovereignty must be a key focus for all free societies in the next decade if democracy is going to survive this moment.

We’re system architects at core. We built a decentralized network so you could run your own moderation, but beyond that our upcoming healthy discourse project is taking some swings at the interaction model that drives these dynamics on Bluesky. Excited to start seeing it in action.

Cover of the book "Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture" by Jennifer Jenkins, featuring comicbook-style panels.

Podcast cover for Episode #10 of "Future Knowledge" titled "Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture." The design features portraits of the guests—Jennifer Jenkins & James Boyle—side by side. Surrounding them are collage-style retro-futuristic elements, including a classical statue head, a vintage computer with the word "NEW" on its screen, a modernist observation tower, and abstract architectural shapes. The title uses bold, blocky typography, giving the cover a vintage sci-fi aesthetic.

🎼 From sampling to streaming, copyright touches every part of modern music.

Jennifer Jenkins & James Boyle explore this & more in MUSIC COPYRIGHT, CREATIVITY, AND CULTURE on the Future Knowledge #podcast.

🎧 Listen to all episodes ⤵️
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2025 DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations DuckDuckGo is donating $1.1 million in 2025 to support organizations that share our vision of raising the standard of trust online.

We’re grateful to DuckDuckGo for their $25,000 gift to Internet Archive! This support helps ensure the world’s knowledge is preserved & accessible to everyone. spreadprivacy.com/2025-duckduc...

Tile’s Lack of Encryption Is a Danger for Users Everywhere In research shared with Wired this week, security researchers detailed a series of vulnerabilities and design flaws with Life360’s Tile Bluetooth trackers that make it easy for stalkers and the

Many of these issues would be mitigated by doing what the competition is already doing: encrypting the broadcasts from its Bluetooth trackers. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

We believe the future of technology can be good.

That’s why Mozilla Foundation is building a better technology future. One built with care, powered by people, open by design.

But we can’t do it alone.

Join us and let’s make some good.
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#MozillaFoundation #MakeGoodTech

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Yes, the song "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" is copyrighted, with the composition owned by Sony/ATV Tunes LLC and written by Donald Roeser. You need to obtain licenses for both the song's composition and its specific recording to use it legally, as there are separate copyrights for these elements.

2 million people tuned in to watch Nathan's highly requested interview with David Pakman last week. We're all in this effort together in demanding accountability.

See our website for how you can help get involved.

#security #accountability #transparency #truthmatters #volunteer #with #us

They said "existential threat".
I believed those words - but they're acting like they didn't.

I'm Alex Rikleen, and I am running for US Senate in Massachusetts.

It is a day to amplify the voices of survivors, and to remember that healing and reconciling painful histories requires being willing to recognize and work through hard truths.

May every person--and every child--know truth, dignity, care, & respect.

Image credit goes to Queen's University, 2023 🧡

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation graphic with brown colorfully decorated Indigenous children's shoes, and blue and yellow flowers, on an orange background.

Reconciliation can only come with truth.

In Canada, September 30th is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. It is a day for remembering and learning about the residential school and its impacts, including the children who never made it home.

And if you haven’t yet, we would love it if you hit that subscribe button on YT.

#TrustbutVerify #DataNerds #TruthMatters

Introducing the new YouTube Playlist from Election Truth Alliance. The image previews categories like Education Station and ETA updates. Subscribe to the channel @electiontruthalliance

Almost as epic as your favorite mixtape from back in the day! Take a spin through our YouTube Playlist and pick from categories like Interviews with ETA, Let’s Talk Data, Education Station, and more. You’ll be certified data nerd before you’re halfway through. 🤓

Election Truth Alliance - Election Truth Alliance Where Data Meets Democracy.

If so, please share and support our work. Every small conversation helps!
Learn more at ElectionTruthAlliance.org

The Volkswagen diesel emissions fraud scandal, Dieselgate, serves as a helpful real-world example of some of our similar concerns applied to election integrity grounded in cybersecurity.

We hope you continue to find this cybersecurity information useful.

The data points to serious concerns that our systems could be compromised.

Looking back at 2024, this could have changed the outcome of Presidential, Senatorial, and House races across the country.

Looking forward to 2026, we must ALL insist on fail safe measures by hand counting prior to certification.

We'll be adding more data to our dashboard soon! Check it out for yourself here: DATA.ELECTIONTRUTHALLIANCE.ORG

Join DSA-LA’s Mass Organizations and Parties Introduction on October 4 to learn and discuss DSA’s mass organization orientation and how it guides our organizing and politics.

📅 RSVP: dsa.la/massorgintro

A dot plot that shows the policy preferences for the 32% of Americans who say the federal government should have a major or minor role in encouraging people to have more kids. Within that group, 8 in 10 Democrats and Republicans support providing more tax credits for parents.

➡️ We asked a follow-up question to that 32% 🏛️️🧒: What kinds of policies would they support?

💸 The most popular policy, among both Democrats and Republicans, is providing more tax credits for parents.

Privacy Harm Is Harm Every day, corporations track our movements through license plate scanners, building detailed profiles of where we go, when we go there, and who we visit. When they do this to us in violation of data

EFF is proud to join the ACLUs of California and others in an amicus brief arguing that drivers are harmed by ALPRs. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Hardworking Ohioans shouldn’t have to work two jobs just to put food on the table. While corporate interests in D.C. look out for billionaires, I’m fighting for the workers who keep our economy strong.

Federal Agents Handcuff Chicago Alderperson At Hospital ER In another incident caught on video Friday, federal agents inside a car randomly threw tear gas into a Logan Square street while people — including a 2-year-old — were outside nearby.

Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities.
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This weekend, we’re walking the blocks and making sure our communities know their rights.

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Bluesky's Patent Non-Aggression Pledge - Bluesky Bluesky develops open protocols. We're taking a short and simple patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everybody feels confident building on them.

Bluesky runs on open protocols with open source code. Today we’re taking an additional step and making a patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everyone can build confidently on our work.

Learn more and read the pledge in our blog post: bsky.social/about/blog/1...

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Bad Bunny for Calvin Klein.

Sexy has the Super Bowl Halftime! Eat that Republicans