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On cue. bsky.app/profile/newr...

Your location reveals a lot about you, including where you live, work, volunteer, and hang out. Don’t let ad companies hoover up all that information. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

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Don’t let companies spy on you while you browse the web. Today’s tip in our #OptOutOctober series is to install Privacy Badger, EFF’s free, tracker-blocking extension. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation. New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and ...

Flock Safety can try to deny that its ALPR network was used by a Texas sheriff to investigate a woman who had an abortion, but newly obtained records show that it was, in fact, a "death investigation" of a non-viable fetus.

Deputies even considered charging her for it.

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.

“The idea that law enforcement would be masked and and therefore unaccountable to the people they are serving is really anathema to American values,” EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @TechnologyReview.com. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/...

Once again, publishing truthful information about matters of public interest and the operations of government, like when ICE is conducting raids and who is conducting them, gets super robust First Amendment protection (see Daily Mail, etc.)

"Demanding," Bondi's own word, is a far more blatant example of improper jawboning than any of the connect-the-dots, passive examples in the Twitter Files and adjacents, which seldom rose beyond "pretty please."

Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a time it makes the process of protecting your privacy

Welcome to Opt Out October, our collection of tips to slowly break free from online surveillance and throw sand in the gears of overreaching large tech companies. Today’s tip is about establishing good online security fundamentals. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Me too! I sharply disagree with this. I think this particular case is only about author's rights -- though I don't think that should matter either. I had a student write a paper about this last semester and was really disappointed to learn how many courts find Pico in whole to be nonbinding.

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Yeah, sadly this court has consistently found, relying on 11th Cir precedent, that Pico, being only a plurality opinion, has no precedential value. Here's what this court said in its first ruling on a motion to dismiss last April (this is 731 F.Supp.3d 1298)

If you heard about Judge Young's impressive ruling yesterday, but didn't want to read all 161 pages, I went through the whole damn thing and pulled out the highlights (there are a bunch, but it's still less than 161 pages).

Judge Young's opinion is resonating with a lot of people. A student wrote to me: "Every once in a while, you read an opinion that gives you heart and reaffirms your faith in the law and in the profession of lawyering and, for me, this is one of those cases." knightcolumbia.org/documents/ah...

"Don't make fun of royals or religion" is both highly relatable at the moment in the US and also not the minor, benign restriction Burr seems think it is

NEW: UK asked Apple to backdoor iCloud encryption.

Backdoors create a massive target for hackers & criminal groups.

Dictators will inevitably demand that Apple do the same for them. 1/

www.ft.com/content/d101...

UK makes new attempt to access Apple cloud data Order issued in September comes after Trump administration said London had backed down in fight over encryption

The UK is demanding another backdoor in Apple’s encryption. www.ft.com/content/d101...

Not free speechy

Platforms Have Failed Us on Abortion Content. Here's How They Can Fix It. BY MOLLY BUCKLEY | October 1, 2025This is the eighth installment in a blog series documenting EFF's findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here. In our Stop ...

next up in our Stop Censoring Abortion series: 5 things platforms can do to improve their systems to make sure abortion info isn't moderated away www.eff.org/pages/platfo...

Wave of Phony News Quotes Affects Everyone—Including EFF Whether due to generative AI hallucinations or human sloppiness, the internet is increasingly rife with bogus news content—and you can count EFF among the victims. WinBuzzer published a story June 26

Whether due to generative AI hallucinations or human sloppiness, the internet is increasingly rife with bogus news content –— and you can count EFF among the victims. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

After Years Behind Bars, Alaa Is Free at Last On September 22, it was announced that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi had issued a pardon for Alaa’s release after six years in prison. Alaa Abd El Fattah is finally free and at home with his...

Alaa Abd El Fattah is finally free and at home with his family. EFF wholeheartedly celebrates Alaa’s freedom and reunification with his family. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

In normal times, we free speech folks use the hypothetical "government that doesn't respect norms or value freedom of expression and uses every lever it has to silence speech that threatens its own power" to emphasize the importance of limiting controls on speech. It's not hypothetical anymore.

There is really never a good time to pass bad Internet laws that empower the government to control online speech.

But now is a really reallly really really bad time to do it.

and big props to @knightcolumbia.org and @ramyakrishnan.bsky.social and @georgewang.bsky.social and everyone else at KFIA who worked on this vitally important case

will post a link as soon as I get one. if you have one, please post

Excerpt from AAUP v Rubio decision

“Yes, they do.” Judge in AAUP v Rubio unequivocally finds that noncitizens in the US have dame First Amendment rights as citizens, and finds Trump admin violated them

For context, as far as I know not a single one of the many many deplatforming lawsuits ever brought was successful. As a practical matter, there is very little risk of losing one of these and almost certainly not a $24 million risk.

Long Beach man tries to quash feds' subpoena over his app that tracks ICE activity A Long Beach man who developed an app that tracks immigration agents’ activity said that his information has been subpoenaed by federal officials.

“That is protected speech at the highest rung of First Amendment protection,” EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @NBCLA.com. “You are providing truthful information about matters of public interest to the public. There should not be legal consequences to that.” www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/...

But it looks like that ballroom will be a very appropriate place to bend a knee

For context, as far as I know not a single one of the many many deplatforming lawsuits ever brought was successful. As a practical matter, there is very little risk of losing one of these and almost certainly not a $24 million risk.