Notices by Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social), page 8

Today, tens of thousands of visitors to sites across Europe will see them entirely blacked out in protest of the EU's #CopyrightDirective for #Blackout21.

Here's why:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/best-europes-web-went-dark-today-we-cant-let-be-our-future

#Article13's biggest boosters are now openly saying that they're happy to extinguish sites that allow people to talk to each other.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190313/10080141792/axel-voss-says-maybe-youtube-shouldnt-exist.shtml

Over four million Europeans signed a petition against #Article13.

Join the Europe-wide protests on March 23—they have the €€€€€€ but we have the people!
https://www.savetheinternet.info/demos

Saudi Arabia has executed more than 100 individuals since January 1. https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/07/27/saudi-arabia-over-100-executions-january-1

Al-Nafjan has been an organizer for Saudi women’s rights for over a decade. We demand freedom for the detained activists who worked online and offline to push for those rights over the last decade. https://www.eff.org/offline/eman-al-nafjan

At least for now, the NSA might have stopped using its authority to collect massive numbers of Americans' phone records, but the sky hasn't fallen, writes Bloomberg's @bopinion:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-10/nsa-phone-records-program-fizzles-out-world-keeps-turning

First, you install @PrivacyBadger.

Then you follow us on social media.

Then you cover your webcam with an EFF sticker.

Why not take the final step and apply to join the team? https://www.eff.org/about/opportunities/jobs

This is what happens when military dictatorships make the cybersecurity laws. #พรบไซเบอร์ https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/28/thailand-passes-controversial-cybersecurity-law/

Groups in the Electronic Frontier Alliance are building the movement for digital rights in different ways in different communities. Do their examples inspire ideas you might share with your network? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/2018-year-review-grassroots-networks-mobilize-coast-coast-promote-digital-rights

Data brokers have been building powerful tools to track you everywhere, and the consequences are dire https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-campaign-tech-privacy-20190220-story.html

No product should ever come with a secret microphone, regardless of whether or not it's enabled. That's just bad security design, @Nest. https://www.csoonline.com/article/3336227/security/nest-secure-had-a-secret-microphone-can-now-be-a-google-assistant.html

“Instead of acting to protect against the very real dangers of facial recognition technology, Amazon is embracing it even as Congress, the public, and even its own workers raise significant concerns,” says @Matt_Cagle from @ACLU_NorCal https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/leticiamiranda/amazon-tests-facial-identification-with-a-seller-and-people

This is a crucial time to stand up for civil liberties. Join us today. https://supporters.eff.org/donate

RT @eff: The #CopyrightDirective is back and - incredibly - even worse. The European Parliament must reject this nightmare. https://t.co/0q…

Human rights defenders, journalists, archivists, digital rights orgs, and alternative media are telling members of the European Parliament that a proposed regulation intended to erase extremist content online will erase human rights too. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190128/17402141482/human-rights-groups-plead-with-eu-not-to-pass-awful-terrorist-content-regulation.shtml

Large ISPs have enough advantages already without federal agencies handing them even more. #NetNeutrality https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/net-neutralitys-day-court

EFF's @lynch_jen explains why face recognition technology is not immune to human bias—even if you are @taylorswift13. http://www.mtv.com/news/3110931/taylor-swift-concert-safety-surveillance-reputation/

The #CopyrightDirective dies in a matter of days, unless negotiations can be salvaged. @LIBEREurope speaks for the EU's research libraries and calls for the deletion of #Article13 and #Article11 https://libereurope.eu/blog/2019/01/29/copyright-reform-liber-signs-open-letter-calling-for-deletion-of-articles-11-and-13/

You can also download tools such as Privacy Badger to block spying ads and invisible trackers. https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

If you're in the EU and you haven't yet, this is a great time to tell your government why you don't support Article 13's #censorshipmachine: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01/internet-facing-catastrophe-free-expression-and-competition-only-europeans-can