New report examines role of digital platforms in violating digital rights amidst the genocide via systematic censorship of Palestinian voices + content.
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We are a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists who have been behind the largest online protests in human history, channeling Internet outrage into political power to win public interest victories previously thought to be impossible. We fight for a future where technology is a force for liberation— not oppression.
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New Report from Great Fire reveals more about Apple's complicity with government censorship. Apple removed nearly 60 VPN apps from its Russia App Store. These were coordinated removals by Apple, not just responses to Russian comms regulator requests.
Apple Censorship – Keeping Apple Accountable Globally
Tracking App status globally
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In partnership with RightsCon, Strange horizons + CompostMag - over the next 2 months, we're calling for short stories that speak to depictions of centralized surveillance tech.
More deets on Submissions/prompt 👉 (🔗 in bio).
Spread the word and let’s make some art that’s also resistance!
You've probably heard the news by now about Internet Archive.
It takes a lot to stand up to greedy corporations who don't care about humanity at all and it's an honor to support their mission. Please share some love to them as they reckon with this ruling:
Statement on the dangerous and myopic ruling in Hachette v Internet Archive today:
"Make no mistake, this suit is about taking away the right to own popular book formats and the right to be safe reading them."
Fight for the Future
Statement + photos on ruling in Hachette v Internet Archive: this can't stand
Photos and videos from recent author and activist actions in support of the Internet Archive can be found here, and press outlets are welcome to us...
We’re joining STOP (Surveillance Tech Oversight Project) , Encode Justice NY, and other friends on August 21 at Citi Field to tell the Mets and the MLB: Facial recognition endangers fans. It's time to bench ALL biometric surveillance tech at stadiums.
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🚨 New from our friends at @Electronic Frontier Foundation further exposing the systemic censorship of Palestinians on mainstream platforms since Oct 7th. #Censorship #DigitalRights #HumanRights
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Digital Apartheid in Gaza: Unjust Content Moderation at the Request of Israel’s Cyber Unit
This is part one of an ongoing series. Part two on the role of big tech in human rights abuses is here.Government involvement in content moderation...
We've joined Just Future's Law, Con Mijente, and Media Justice on a campaign that makes it super easy to opt out of the Clearview joke settlement that'll pay pennies without taking any meaningful steps to stop mass facial recognition.
Sign up here: clearviewcopout.org
Did you hear about the massive internet outage that just hit? Airlines grounded, banks offline, media silenced – all because of one software update gone wrong. This isn't just a tech hiccup. It's a wake-up call about the dangers of Big Tech monopolies. When a single company's mistake can freeze global systems, we've got a serious problem.
Microsoft outages caused by CrowdStrike software glitch paralyze airlines, other businesses. Here
What to know as banks, airlines and other Microsoft clients grapple with global outages due to a CrowdStrike software issue.
Did you know you can opt out of TSA facial recognition scans? With 400+ airports adding this tech in 2024, it's crucial to know your rights. Join the #OptOutClub to protect your privacy and push back against potential algorithmic bias. Learn more at our event this Friday!
Eventbrite
Freedom Flyers Summit: Resisting Airport Face Scans
Join the Algorithmic Justice League as we convene to discuss the expansion & resistance to facial recognition at airports. fly.ajl.org
@npub1umd6...wfr7 is doing incredible work to ensure access to knowledge and combat censorship and surveillance. If you want to learn how and show your support, check the link below: 
Fight for the Future
Battle for Libraries
Don’t let libraries die. As the future goes digital, major publishers are suing to cut off libraries’ defense of digital books from censorship....
The US Treasury and IRS are proposing new regulations that would mandate mass surveillance of digital assets. This would be a massive blow to our human rights. That’s why we’re calling for the government to #StopFinancialSurveillance 
Fight for the Future
Stop Financial Surveillance
The government wants to track every financial transaction you make. Tell them to stop financial surveillance NOW.
Fight for the Future is calling on all companies with direct messaging platforms to immediately implement default end-to-end encryption for DMs and message back-ups, and on activists and organizations to join the campaign by signing on at 
Fight for the Future
OPEN LETTER: Make DMs Safe
Open Letter: Make DMs Safe In 2022, Facebook handed over abortion-related direct messages between a mom and her teenage daughter to police. Now the...
Recently, mounting activist/expert pressure has been forcing companies to take decisive action on this issue: both Google and Discord made announcements this month about expanded end-to-end encryption testing and roll-out:
The Verge
Google Messages now encrypts RCS conversations by default
It’s a big milestone for Google.
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Discord is experimenting with end-to-end encryption for voice and video calls to improve user privacy. The company is considering using Messaging L...
Now with the overturn of Roe, the private messages of anyone seeking, facilitating, or providing abortion care are also at risk of being used by law enforcement as tools of criminalization. The messages of one Nebraska teenager and her mom already have: 
The Verge
A woman and her daughter plead guilty to abortion-related charges supported by Meta-provided Facebook chats
The woman and her daughter will be separately sentenced later this year.
Just the most recent examples of how DMs are used to target activists: The Colorado Springs police department forcing Meta to hand over the private Facebook messages of a housing justice advocate and of the Chinook Center, a small progressive Colorado Springs organization: 
Colorado Public Radio
Colorado ACLU sues Colorado Springs Police Department and FBI over alleged unlawful privacy invasions of local activist
The lawsuit says detectives and undercover officers infiltrated activists at the Chinook Center to gather information with the intent to arrest mem...
This roll out couldn’t happen fast enough. Privacy experts have been pointing to importance of end-to-end encryption for years – for everyone online, but especially for vulnerable people historically targeted by surveillance, including activists, journalists, immigrants, and other racialized people 
What Is End-to-End Encryption? Another Bull’s-Eye on Big Tech (Published 2019)
After years of on-and-off debate over nearly snoop-proof security, the industry is girding for new pressure from law enforcement around the world.
In the letter, Meta lays out why the launch of end-to-end encryption on Messenger is taking time, why the company believes E2EE is so vital for user privacy, and why E2EE is also - in the company's view - the right business choice. https://messengernews.fb.com/2023/08/22/expanding-testing-for-end-to-end-encryption-on-messenger/
Breaking: #Meta has responded to the demands of the MakeDMsSafe.com campaign in a letter to Fight for the Future that reiterates the company's commitment to rolling out default end-to-end encryption for Facebook Messenger in 2023 
The Verge
Meta refreshes promise to roll out default end-to-end encryption in Messenger this year
Pressure for default E2EE has risen after the reversal of Roe v. Wade
We cannot rely on tech companies to protect us, esp when they see the 246100 potential of AI. What we need is strong federal data privacy legislation that will actually protect us from corporate surveillance & stop companies like Zoom from harvesting & abusing our data for profit.