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  1. Pinned Tweet
    May 13

    Take a look at EFF's brand-new Instagram account for inspiring photos from the digital rights movement (plus kittens):

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  2. 20 minutes ago

    It can take a community of privacy-conscious users to protect the privacy of any one individual.

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  3. 3 hours ago

    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.

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  4. 3 hours ago

    California: help us expand these ordinances by passing S.B. 1186 to shine light on police surveillance technology and limit and regulate its use in cities and counties across the entire state.

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  5. 3 hours ago

    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.

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  6. Retweeted
    May 13

    Take a look at EFF's brand-new Instagram account for inspiring photos from the digital rights movement (plus kittens):

    8 replies . 36 retweets 213 likes
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  7. 4 hours ago

    In the last few weeks we've helped defend your privacy at the border, defeated a podcast troll, and pushed the chance to restore through the Senate. Could you help us out by voting for us in the donations pool? (And sharing!)

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  8. Retweeted
    9 hours ago

    1/.'s Right to Repair campaign addresses issues car mechanics have with using parts to repair your car that may violate copyright laws.

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  9. 5 hours ago

    We need to tell every House member to “sign the discharge petition on .” 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.

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  10. 6 hours ago

    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.

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  11. 7 hours ago

    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.”

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  12. 7 hours ago

    The nominations are flowing in! Have you told us who you'd like to see win the 2018 Pioneer Award?

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  13. 8 hours ago

    Multiple Hugo Award-winning sci-fi author John wrote a new short story to help us win the fight for the .

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  14. 8 hours ago

    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 care

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  15. Retweeted
    May 15

    For months, the FBI has pointed to 7,775 supposedly “un-hackable” cell phones as proof that criminals are increasingly “going dark” to government surveillance. We’re asking the agency for proof.

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  16. May 17

    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!

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  17. May 17

    EFF and dozens of privacy groups fought the “extreme vetting” software initiative for more than a year. Its closure is a triumph.

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    May 17

    , a prominent Egyptian blogger & activist, is serving a five-year prison sentence for "organizing an illegal protest & assaulting a police officer." denies the charges. 's must !

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  19. May 17

    Facebook uses a variation of a technique called link shimming to track you whenever you click on a link to leave . But with a brand-new feature in , you can block that tracking.

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  20. May 17

    And the hits keep coming. Location data aggregator LocationSmart—where companies like Securus get location data—leaks customer location data via its online demo.

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  21. May 17

    Prison phone company Securus can get real-time location data for nearly any cellphone in the country—and according to , has been hacked

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