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“Companies are definitely scrambling. And to be honest, so are we, and so is much of the legal community and the community around free speech, because this is such a—frankly—legally outrageous event” - EFF's Mukund Rathi on the new Texas social media law:
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Missed our first IN PERSON Tech Trivia Night since 2019? Catch up on the festivities, where teams put their tech know-how to the test and vie for the chance to win an EFF prize pack, championship trophies, and perhaps most importantly, the bragging rights.
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We’re hopeful that policymakers will shift in the right direction on internet policy and affirm the important role of immunity for online intermediaries in fostering an enabling environment for users’ freedom of expression.
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TUESDAY: How do we defend transgender, gender non-conforming, intersex & queer youth from digital surveillance at this critical moment? Join EFA member for a chat with & EFF’s on how we can protect them.
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Alaa is locked up in Egypt to silence his activism and faces the very real risk of death, unless @FCDOGovUK immediately intervenes to save his life. #FreeAlaa #SaveAlaa Read more: accessnow.org/uk-foreign-off
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A letter to the UK foreign secretary urges her to take action to help Alaa Abd El Fattah, sentenced last year for sharing a Facebook post about human rights abuses in Egyptian prisons news.sky.com/story/alaa-abd
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While data brokers often claim that geolocation data is “anonymized,” location data is never anonymous. If a phone’s location data shows where its owner sleeps at night or works during the day, it is very easy to find that owner’s name and address.
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Join us for Part two of our four-part blog series “Platform Liability Trends Around the Globe”. In this installment, we unpack different approaches to intermediary liability and dig into the regulatory tools available to policymakers
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New podcast alert! 🚨 Check out 's latest podcast episode, “How To Fix the Internet: Securing the Vote” featuring our President & CEO Pam Smith discussing the role of technology in our elections and how best practices can help secure our democracy.
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The 11th Circuit recognized platforms have a First Amendment right to curate content in upholding a block on Florida's social media law. With similar bad laws being considered in several states, we hope other courts follow the 11th Circuit's lead.
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Under the FTC's proposed order, Twitter must notify users whose phone numbers and email addresses it abused to target ads and explain what processes it is putting in place to ensure this doesn’t happen again. It's about time.
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Pam Smith is the CEO of , a nonpartisan organization dedicated to ensuring U.S. elections are secure. She joins hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien on EFF’s podcast this week to discuss how to know if an election is secure—or if it’s not.
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