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In a big win for protesters’ rights,
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a challenge to sweeping warrants to search a protester’s devices and digital data and a nonprofit’s social media data.
The case, "Armendariz v. City of Colorado Springs", arose after a housing protest in 2021,
during which Colorado Springs police arrested protesters for obstructing a roadway.
After the demonstration, police also obtaine…

Victory! Tenth Circuit Finds Fourth Amendment Doesn’t Support Broad Search of Protesters’ Devices and Digital Data
In a big win for protesters’ rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a challenge to sweeping warrants to search a protester’s devices and digital data and a nonprofit’s social media data.The case, Armendariz v. City of Colorado Springs, arose...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/115979920525500001
As if we got swallowed in the divinatory nightmarish trip hallucination that would horrify Orwell enough to wake up in the middle of the night to start writing 1984.

Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda (Josh Richman/Electronic Frontier Foundation)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/beware-government-using-image-manipulation-propaganda
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p138#a260127p138

You should read this…
Why isn’t online age verification just like showing your ID in person? | EFF
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/why-isnt-online-age-verification-just-showing-your-id-person

‘Satan’: Julius Malema launches scathing attack on Trump
EFF leader Julius Malema has urged US President Donald Trump to
‘drink poison’ over his claims that South Africa has a ‘white genocide”.
https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/juliu

'Satan': Malema launches scathing attack on Trump
EFF leader Julius Malema has urged US President Donald Trump to 'drink poison' over his claims that South Africa has a 'white genocide'.

How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice

How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE
A few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology.

From @…: How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice…

How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE
A few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology.

Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is launching
"Encrypt It Already",
-- our push to get companies to offer stronger privacy protections to our data and communications
by implementing
end-to-end encryption.
If that name sounds a little familiar,
it’s because this is a spiritual successor to our 2019 campaign,
"Fix It Already",
-- a campaign where we pushed companies to fix longstanding issues.
"End-to-end…

Introducing Encrypt It Already
Today, we’re launching Encrypt It Already, our push to get companies to offer stronger privacy protections to our data and communications by implementing end-to-end encryption. If that name sounds a little familiar, it’s because this is a spiritual successor to our 2019 campaign, Fix It Already, a...

the best thing about our ring camera is the battery is dead 95% of the time.
#privacy
https://mastodon.social/@eff/115697276823039413

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/115902120152893320
Es difícil ser de tan baja ética como ICE y Palantir, alias la SS con acento tejano

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/115703399189306000
Man I know I need to educate myself on the subject, but unfortunately I don't have any availability for dismay today

None of the age verification options are perfect in terms of protecting information, providing access to everyone, and safely handling sensitive data.
That’s just some of the reasons that EFF is against age-gating mandates,
-- and is working to stop and overturn them across the United States and around the world.
http…

So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now?
This blog also appears in our Age Verification Resource Hub: our one-stop shop for users seeking to understand what age-gating laws actually do, what’s at stake, how to protect yourself, and why EFF opposes all forms of age verification mandates. Head to EFF.org/Age to explore our resources and...

Berlin-based Trade Republic says early investors will sell €1.2B of shares to Sequoia and others at a €12.5B valuation, becoming Germany's most valuable startup (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f5f3bfeb-79cc-4eff-8999-1cecd6360003

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
De La Soul:
🎵 EN EFF
#DeLaSoul
https://open.spotify.com/track/42ahjj1S2qs8EGmy55mc6O

Report: ICE Using Palantir Tool That Feeds On Medicaid Data (Josh Richman/Electronic Frontier Foundation)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/report-ice-using-palantir-tool-feeds-medicaid-data
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p4#a260116p4

I just went to my Gototags, my old #NFC tag vendor hardware/software & their tools are trying to charge people "PER ENCODED TAG" now.
There's tons of tools that encode tags for free. Thankfully, I have their old unlimited use NFC encoding tools so eff that but is anyone else actually doing this?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/115685264086846544
Estos 10 riesgos también aplicaršn a las personas que vivimos en la Unión Europea :flag-eu: si la ley de verificación de edad sale adelante

Eagles, OL coach Jeff Stoutland parting ways after 13 seasons https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-ol-coach-jeff-stoutland-parting-ways-after-13-seasons

In the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era,
many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form
– and that means we rarely have the chance to buy them.
Instead, we are stuck renting them,
subject to all kinds of terms and conditions.
And because the content is digital,
reselling it,
lending it,
even preserving it for your own use
inevitably requires copying. 
Unfortunately, when it comes to copying digital media,
US copyright l…

Rent-Only Copyright Culture Makes Us All Worse Off
In the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era, many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form – and that means we rarely have the chance to buy them. Instead, we are stuck renting them, subject to all kinds of terms and conditions. And because the content is digital, reselling it, lending it, even preserving it for your own use inevitably requires copying. Unfortunately, when it comes to copying digital media, US copyright law has pretty much lost the plot.

Wanted to install a #ProxmoxBackupServer today.
Fetched an unused Asus PN40 with 8GB RAM and a 1TB SSD..which should be more than enough.
Only to find the SSD went defect in the 2yrs it spent in a closet.
Looked at the SSD prices and sighed.
Eff AI.

EFF is proud to support the
“ICE Out of Our Faces Act.”
This new federal bill would ban ICE and CBP agents, and some local police working with them,
from acquiring or using biometric surveillance systems,
including face recognition technology, or information derived from such systems by another entity.
This bill would be enforceable, among other ways, by a strong private right of action.
The bill’s lead author is Senator Ed Markey.
We thank him for…

Yes to the “ICE Out of My Face Act”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have descended into utter lawlessness, most recently in Minnesota. The violence is shocking. So are the intrusions on digital rights and civil liberties. For example, immigration agents are routinely scanning faces of...

The New York Times reported that
Meta is considering adding face recognition technology to its smart glasses.
According to an internal Meta document,
the company may launch the product
“during a dynamic political environment
where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us
would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
This is a bad idea that Meta should abandon.
If adopted and released to the public,
it would …

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans
Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

Axon Enterprise Inc. is working with a Canadian police department to test the addition of face recognition technology (FRT) to its body-worn cameras (BWCs).
This is an alarming development in government surveillance that should put communities everywhere on alert. 
FRT brings a rash of problems.
It relies on extensive surveillance and collecting images on individuals, law-abiding or otherwise.
Misidentifications can cause horrendous consequences for individuals, includ…

Axon Tests Face Recognition on Body-Worn Cameras
Axon Enterprise Inc. is working with a Canadian police department to test the addition of face recognition technology (FRT) to its body-worn cameras (BWCs). This is an alarming development in government surveillance that should put communities everywhere on alert. As many as 50 officers from the...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
De La Soul feat. Black Thought:
🎵 EN EFF
#DeLaSoul #BlackThought

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
De La Soul feat. Black Thought:
🎵 EN EFF
#DeLaSoul #BlackThought

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
De La Soul feat. Black Thought:
🎵 EN EFF
#DeLaSoul #BlackThought

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
De La Soul feat. Black Thought:
🎵 EN EFF
#DeLaSoul #BlackThought