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Electronic Frontier Alliance member @cypurrnyc, is hosting their first online social. You can RSVP now for a night of games, discussions and (of course) cats! https://twitter.com/cypurrnyc/status/1351574311283388417?s=20

Contact tracing is at least 150 years old and can be done with writing and human interviews. It's a systemic failure that @uspto gave out a patent on it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/blyncsys-patent-contact-tracing-isnt-medical-breakthrough-its-patent-breakdown

There is still time to register for LibrePlanet 2021! This multi-day conference, hosted by Electronic Frontier Alliance member @fsf, offers an opportunity for activists and experts to discuss current issues in technology and ethics. https://twitter.com/fsf/status/1351628007660728321?s=20

EFF applauds Oakland's City Council and Privacy Advisory Commission for taking this groundbreaking step advancing public safety and protecting civil liberties. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/oaklands-progressive-fight-protect-residents-government-surveillance

Privacy, safety, and amplification of carceral bias are just some of the reasons why we must ban government use of face recognition technology. But what about private use? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/why-eff-doesnt-support-bans-private-use-face-recognition

Electronic Frontier Alliance member @Babycastles is hosting final presentations from their resident digital artists this Friday, January 22nd, at 7pm EST. https://twitter.com/Babycastles/status/1347577553821724674

Under the OCC's new rule, banks can no longer refuse to serve entire industries, and must analyze a customer individually before refusing service. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/new-occ-rule-win-fight-against-financial-censorship

The OCC's new rule is a win for civil liberties, and for the many sectors that have found themselves in the bad graces of corporate financial services. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/new-occ-rule-win-fight-against-financial-censorship

What's clear from the reaction to this most recent privacy policy change is that WhatsApp shares much more information with Facebook than many users were aware, and has been doing it since 2016. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/its-business-usual-whatsapp

Join Electronic Frontier Alliance member @STOPSpyingNY this Thursday at 6 PM EST for a webinar discussing police surveillance using common, everyday technology. https://www.eff.org/event/stop-x-radtech-polices-online-surveillance-access

Local advocacy is essential to ensuring technology supports the intellectual
freedom at the heart of a democratic society. Join the fight by connecting with
our grassroots network, the Electronic Frontier Alliance.
https://www.eff.org/fight

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If you can’t fix it, you don’t own it. Support Electronic Frontier Alliance member @fsf in their campaign to raise awareness on the state of Right To Repair. https://twitter.com/fsf/status/1351605381919879169

App mandates abuse universities’ power over their students and erodes students’ right to control their own devices. It is not too late for schools to commit to a better path. https://act.eff.org/action/end-university-app-mandates

When WhatsApp says that its data sharing practices and policies haven’t changed, it is correct—and that’s exactly the problem. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/its-business-usual-whatsapp

Legislators and judges must ban so-called "consent searches" of our phones during traffic stops, sidewalk detentions, home searches, station house arrests, and other coercive police encounters. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/so-called-consent-searches-harm-our-digital-rights

EFF fights surveillance…and we do so in 11 languages in our educational resource, Surveillance Self-Defense https://ssd.eff.org/

Legislators and judges must ban so-called "consent searches" of our phones during traffic stops, sidewalk detentions, home searches, station house arrests, and other coercive police encounters. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/so-called-consent-searches-harm-our-digital-rights

"My free speech heart doesn't bleed a ton for perhaps the most powerful person in the world having a more difficult time speaking to people" - EFF’s @davidgreene on @TheBayKQED https://www.kqed.org/news/11855408/social-media-giants-banned-trump-but-they-still-have-lots-of-problems

While there are many steps you can take to protect your own privacy, the real protection comes when we recognize that privacy is a team sport. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/data-privacy-day-play-privacy-team-sport