Toshimaru Ogura @toshimaru@mastodon.social

U.S. regulators’ recent actions threaten to undermine the privacy and civil liberties protections afforded by peer-to-peer technologies. This proposed rulemaking shouldn't fly under the radar. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/us-government-targeting-cryptocurrency-expand-reach-its-financial-surveillance

Through lawsuits, legal support, education, and analysis, EFF spent 2020 standing up for your right to protest free from high-tech snooping. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/high-tech-police-surveillance-protests-and-activism-year-review-2020

Whistleblower Edward @snowden's revelations opened the world’s eyes to a new level of government misconduct, and reinvigorated EFF’s work in the courts and with lawmakers to end unlawful mass surveillance. We need your help to keep up the fight. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/we-can-fix-broken-system

Ten years ago today, Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in protest over injustice, igniting uprisings that became the Arab Spring movement. Tech platforms took credit at the time, but continue to silence voices in the region. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/decade-after-arab-spring-platforms-have-turned-their-backs-critical-voices-middle

EFF joins dozens of human rights and civil liberties organizations in calling on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to end the arbitrary censorship of communities across the region, which has become dangerously common. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/decade-after-arab-spring-platforms-have-turned-their-backs-critical-voices-middle

Concrete steps must be taken to ensure that platforms promote human rights. It is not enough to provide lip service to the importance of connecting people. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/decade-after-arab-spring-platforms-have-turned-their-backs-critical-voices-middle

The status quo of ignoring voices in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Global South cannot continue. Social media can be critical for helping people connect, organize, and document human rights abuses. But platforms must listen, and take action. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/decade-after-arab-spring-platforms-have-turned-their-backs-critical-voices-middle

Read EFF’s new whitepaper exploring the dangers of copyright filters, which features such reviews of YouTube’s Content ID as:
“The only thing that matters is are you smarter than a robot” - @thelindsayellis https://www.eff.org/wp/unfiltered-how-youtubes-content-id-discourages-fair-use-and-dictates-what-we-see-online

Universities should strike any app mandates from their existing student commitments, and should pledge to not include them in future student commitments. https://act.eff.org/action/end-university-app-mandates

Looking for security training resources? Security Education Companion, a sister site to Surveillance Self-Defense, offers lesson plans for teaching users how to increase their personal security. https://sec.eff.org/topics