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It can take a community of privacy-conscious users to protect the privacy of any one individual.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/data-privacy-day-play-privacy-team-sport …

Add your community to the list: Join the Electronic Frontier Alliance, a grassroots network of community and campus organizations across the United States, to educate neighbors about the importance of digital rights.https://www.eff.org/fight 

Santa Clara County, CA: Berkeley, CA: Davis, CA: And this week we add Oakland to the list of communities giving residents control of law enforcement surveillance tech.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/oakland-new-gold-standard-community-control-police-surveillance …

We need to tell every House member to “sign the discharge petition on #NetNeutrality.” Too often they will feign support for net neutrality or argue in favor of a fake net neutrality.
 We can’t give them that space.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/path-victory-net-neutrality-house-representatives-and-how-you-can-help …

Law enforcement has argued for legally mandating encryption backdoors into our devices—and justified this saying they can't get in any other way, citing, in particular, 7,775 un-hackable Phones in 2017. It's time we learned where that number came from.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/fbi-supposedly-has-7775-un-hackable-phones-were-asking-proof …

Lawrence Lessig on the CLASSICs Act: "as blatant a gift without any public return as is conceivable. And it's not just a gift through cash; it's a gift through a monopoly regulation of speech.”https://www.wired.com/story/congress-latest-move-to-extend-copyright-protection-is-misguided/ …

The nominations are flowing in! Have you told us who you'd like to see win the 2018 Pioneer Award?https://www.eff.org/nominate-2018-pioneer …

Multiple Hugo Award-winning sci-fi author John @Scalzi wrote a new short story to help us win the fight for the #RightToRepair.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/eff-presents-john-scalzi-science-fiction-story-about-our-right-repair-petition …

We fully support a bill that would require California's juvenile facilities and state-run foster care programs to provide Internet access for educational purposes—continuing the state's innovative approach to rehabilitating youth within its carehttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/all-california-kids-deserve-internet-access-including-youth-detention-and-foster …

Who should join the visionary activists, security researchers, whistle-blowers, and open-source pioneers that have received EFF Pioneer Awards in the past? This is your chance to nominate a digital rights luminary!https://www.eff.org/nominate-2018-pioneer …

EFF and dozens of privacy groups fought the “extreme vetting” software initiative for more than a year. Its closure is a triumph.https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/05/17/ice-just-abandoned-its-dream-of-extreme-vetting-software-that-could-predict-whether-a-foreign-visitor-would-become-a-terrorist/?utm_term=.7aea453278c3 …

Facebook uses a variation of a technique called link shimming to track you whenever you click on a link to leave http://facebook.com . But with a brand-new feature in @PrivacyBadger, you can block that tracking.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/privacy-badger-rolls-out-new-ways-fight-facebook-tracking …

Prison phone company Securus can get real-time location data for nearly any cellphone in the country—and according to @motherboard, has been hackedhttps://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gykgv9/securus-phone-tracking-company-hacked …