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We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. This account is no longer active or monitored. Find EFF's active social media at eff.org/social.
San Francisco, CA
Joined August 2006
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    When you go online, your rights should go with you. X is no longer where the fight is happening. EFF takes on big fights, and we win by putting our time, skills, and members’ support where they will have the most impact. Right now, that means Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn,
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    BREAKING: a federal judge has ruled that suspicionless searches of travelers’ cell phones, laptops, and other electronic devices when we cross the U.S. border are unconstitutional. This is an enormous victory for privacy.
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    "Normalizing the surveillance is like normalizing a violation of our rights,” EFF’s @Maassive told KRNV’s @RenoKimBurrows. Instead, EFF and @RSJNevada are normalizing transparency through FOIA requests and the Atlas of Surveillance project.
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    BREAKING: ICANN has voted to REJECT the sale of the .ORG registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital. This is a major victory for the millions of nonprofits, civil society organizations, and individuals who make .ORG their home online. #SaveDotOrg icann.org/news/blog/ican…
    The text of the first two paragraphs of the accompanying URL: Today, the ICANN Board made the decision to reject the proposed change of control and entity conversion request that Public INterest Registr (PIR) submitted to ICANN
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    The FCC's decision to abandon its traditional role in protecting an open and free Internet will go down as one of the biggest mistakes in Internet policy history. We will fight in the courts, in the states, and in Congress to restore #NetNeutrality.
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    BREAKING: In a huge victory, the European Parliament has voted 318-278 against #Article13 and #Article11—the disastrous #CensorshipMachine and #LinkTax copyright proposals. That means we’re close to stopping these terrible proposals—and we’re gaining momentum.
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    BREAKING: The Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that cell phone location data is protected by the Fourth Amendment.
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    EFF is deeply concerned that the U.S. Treasury Department has included an open source computer project, Tornado Cash, on its list of sanctioned individuals. Tornado Cash is an open source software project and website that published a decentralized cryptocurrency mixer.
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    Tumblr's new "adult content" filter is so bad at its job, it flagged Tumblr's own examples of acceptable nudity
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    BREAKING: We’ve confirmed that the Ring doorbell app on Android covertly shares personally identifiable information on its users with third-party companies, including Facebook.
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    Youtube-dl is a legitimate tool with a world of a lawful uses. Demanding its removal from Github is a disappointing and counterproductive move by the RIAA.
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    BREAKING: #NetNeutrality is now law in California.
    Picture of press release from Scott Weiner's office about SB822 being signed.
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    | ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄| | CRYPTO | | MEANS | | CRYPTOGRAPHY | |__________| (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || /   づ
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    The Internet lost a hero today. EFF is mourning the loss of our visionary co-founder, John Perry Barlow.