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EFF's mastodon presence, please visit us at https://www.eff.org. Do not message this account with confidential information or to seek legal assistance; for legal help email info@eff.org or visit https://www.eff.org/pages/legal-assistance

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The sponsors of the EARN IT Act and the STOP CSAM Act have made it clear they want to surveil user messages. We can still stop these bills, if there’s enough public pushback. The Senate is listening. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/dangerous-earn-it-bill-advances-out-committee-several-senators-offer-objections

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With Big Tech speedrunning its own demise, we need more than rules to make platforms better - we need to look out for the users who want to escape social media hell:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/platforms-decay-lets-put-users-first

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We're excited to show off our new Stay Golden Hooded Sweatshirt! Snag this new hoodie when you donate at the Titanium level or above: https://eff.org/join

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Despite changes that lawmakers have made to the latest version of the Kids Online Safety Act, it still leaves platforms with no choice but to institute censorship and age verification requirements. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/kids-online-safety-act-still-huge-danger-our-rights-online

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Your computer system is uniquely configured—and thus identifiable—even if you are using privacy-protective software. Learn more with EFF's Cover Your Tracks. https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

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KOSA puts platforms that serve young people in an impossible situation: without clear guidance regarding what sort of design or content might lead to liability, they would likely filter vast amounts of legal speech. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/kids-online-safety-act-still-huge-danger-our-rights-online

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EFF has called the UK’s Online Safety Bill “a blueprint for repression around the world.”
https://www.theverge.com/23708180/united-kingdom-online-safety-bill-explainer-legal-pornography-age-checks

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Opponents of a free and private internet have brought the EARN IT Act back to the U.S. Senate for a third time. We need your help to stop it. https://act.eff.org/action/the-earn-it-act-is-back-seeking-to-scan-us-all

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If the STOP CSAM Act passes, just providing an encrypted app could lead to prosecutions and lawsuits.
https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-outlaw-encrypted-applications

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Do you have security plan for your digital information? Get started with SSD's Your Security Plan guide. Review your plan regularly to keep yourself protected! https://ssd.eff.org/module/your-security-plan

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The idea of AI getting patents has been talked about for years now. It’s not getting any better. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/stupid-patent-month-trying-get-us-patents-ai-program

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Join us in saying California should not normalize government use of face recognition technology. https://act.eff.org/action/stop-this-dangerous-bill-that-would-normalize-face-surveillance-in-california

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If you want to use your management skills and technical knowledge to have an outsized impact on the future of digital rights, this is the opportunity for you. https://www.eff.org/opportunities/jobs/public-interest-technology-director

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EFF, Certbot, and SSD (Surveillance Self-Defense) now have onion website addresses accessible in the Tor browser! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/eff-now-has-tor-onions

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A potential new law gives incentive for messaging services to go snooping through your private communications. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/your-messaging-service-should-not-be-dea-informant

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Thanks to copyright law’s disastrous damages provisions, copyright complaints are a highly effective way to get a post you don’t like taken offline fast. That's a problem. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/dmca-cannot-save-you-your-own-words

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Today, so many people used EFF's Action Center to tell Congress not to pass the EARN IT Act and the STOP CSAM Act that it briefly took the system offline. It's back up, and you can take action here:

https://act.eff.org/action/the-earn-it-act-is-back-seeking-to-scan-us-all

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-outlaw-encrypted-applications

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We don’t need more laws that weaken the privacy of communications online. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/your-messaging-service-should-not-be-dea-informant

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The EARN IT Act, which will undermine encryption and privacy for all internet users, is back. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/earn-it-bill-back-again-seeking-scan-our-messages-and-photos

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Verification was vital “because it meant that if you as a person reporting on something, or you just as a user, shared something from someone with a blue check mark, you could be sure it was from who they said they were"

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Blue checks are no more. Long live blue checks. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/what-made-pre-elon-musk-twitter-relevant

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The EARN IT Act, which will undermine encryption and privacy for all internet users, is back. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/earn-it-bill-back-again-seeking-scan-our-messages-and-photos

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"Clearview is a private company that is making face prints of people based on their photos online without their consent," EFF’s Matthew Guariglia spoke with BBC News for a story about this "huge problem for civil liberties and civil rights" that absolutely needs to be banned." https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65057011

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New to Mastodon? Here's an overview of privacy and security questions for this new way of doing social media. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/mastodon-private-and-secure-lets-take-look

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If you're hearing a lot about the fediverse these days, you should know: Mastodon is not the whole fediverse and the fediverse is not simply a Twitter replacement. The fediverse is an entire ecosystem, built on something called ActivityPub. Learn more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/leaving-twitters-walled-garden

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