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For years, Signal has required a phone number to register for an account. That’s all changing. You can now pay a small fee for an account with no phone number. Read about it in our digital security newsletter, and subscribe.

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Susan Collins voted to give ICE and CBP $70 billion. She owns the consequences of that vote.

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SCOTUS just delivered its most important Fourth Amendment decision in years — and it's a win for your privacy. The government can't vacuum up sensitive location data from your cellphone without a warrant, the court ruled. Watch @trevortimm.bsky.social explain why this matters.

One reason WhatsApp users should consider switching to usernames is because if someone hijacks your phone number, then they could also likely recover other accounts, FPF's @mshelton.bsky.social told @monicatorrr.bsky.social.

RSS is a secret trick to making the internet more usable. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The use of automation and AI to identify, flag, and moderate content has become a permanent feature of how platforms govern speech, and we're taking stock. Read part 1 of our 2-part series on automated content moderation www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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For 250 years, we have been building our democracy. And for just as long, brave truth tellers have spoken out against attacks on the rule of law and attempts to bring us backward. On America's 250th birthday, we celebrate those who courageously keep us on the right path. Happy July 4th!

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"You can’t introduce somebody’s reading habits, or their library, their bookshelf, as evidence of a specific crime in court," FPF's Seth Stern told @fairmediawatch.bsky.social about Daniel Sanchez Estrada's 30-year sentence for transporting zines.

The Supreme Court couldn’t be bothered to correct litigants who think filing a lawsuit gives them permission to commandeer the Fourth Estate and force journalists to burn sources. Fewer whistleblowers will be willing to come forward as a result.

Big Tech’s AI money machine is already trying to shape the rules before they’re written. 💰 Kudos to @demandprogress.bsky.social for tracking which politicians are being bankrolled by Leading the Future, the Super PAC backed by AI executives fighting guardrails. ⬇️

We've supported courageous individuals who called out dangerous decisions—whether it was Meta willingly exposing children to harm or ICE training its officers to break the law. Today, we're asking you to support our work on behalf of whistleblowers: whistlebloweraid.org/donate/

Did you know EFF created the Atlas of Surveillance? It's our database mapping police surveillance tech across the U.S.! You can support our work pushing back against surveillance, and get a t-shirt to show support for that work, today: eff.org/spring

A former police officer is speaking out about Flock cameras and ALPRs. Whether you agree or disagree, it's worth asking why more people are starting to raise concerns about mass surveillance. Watch and make up your own mind. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1P-...

X violating user data in 2022 led to an FTC order requiring it to take platform security seriously and periodically report to the regulator. Its new petition to waive those requirements should be fully rejected.

Students with disabilities are students first. For 50 years, the Dept of Education has been tasked with ensuring students with disabilities have the opportunity to learn & grow. The Trump admin's decision to move that responsibility to HHS & DOJ will only hurt these students. It's shameful.

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No force feeding AI over here. With us, you choose if and how AI shows up. Tl;dr 👉 Break up with Google www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2...

Today could be Congress's last chance to stop the KIDS Act. Tell your lawmaker to vote NO on this rushed, messy package of internet bills that threatens privacy, free expression, and private messaging online. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Far from protecting children, Illinois’ HB 5511 will effectively dismantle online anonymity, jeopardize data security, and severely restrict access to constitutionally protected speech for young people and adults alike. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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📍 Use the DeFlock Map We are building a public map of ALPRs, AI surveillance cameras, autonomous drones, and connected surveillance infrastructure so communities can see what’s being installed around them. The DeFlock App works great, too! www.deflock.org #Flock #Privacy #MassSurveillance

Big win for privacy. Major setback for mass surveillance. For journalists, their sources, and everyone else, this Supreme Court decision is a powerful protection for location data, and potentially for other sensitive information stored on their phones.

Student sues University of Michigan over alleged surveillance tied to Gaza protests Lawsuit says university and private investigators conspired to intimidate, terrorize and retaliate against Josiah Walker www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Mandating age verification "effectively hands Big Tech and the government a skeleton key to the identities of every whistleblower, dissident, and investigative reporter who uses online platforms," FPF's @caitlinvogus.bsky.social and @aliyabhatia.bsky.social write in @theintercept.com.

New: Regretful cities are literally covering their Flock cameras with black trash bags because they cannot figure out how to immediately exit their surveillance contracts or get the cameras taken down: www.404media.co/cities-are-c...

SignalTrace "links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate." It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license plate readers, linking specific devices—and people—to cars.

So the FCC is proposing that anyone getting a phone plan should be required to show a government ID, basically ending anonymity. @josephcox.bsky.social talks more about what we lose with that on today's podcast here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP53...

The known cases of police stalking are almost certainly a vast underreporting of the overall abuse, because they largely include only cases in which the behavior was so egregious that it led to police officers being fired, arrested, or both. www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...

a few days later Ypsilanti Township, which is fighting its own enormous data center project, has a city meeting and the town's leaders put a photo from Whitmer and the groundbreaking behind them while taking comment from the community