Mastodawn

What’s at stake in the fight against age verification is not just a single bill in a single state. It’s about whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control online that reinforces specific moral and religious worldviews. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/rep-finke-was-right-age-gating-isnt-about-kids-its-about-control

Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control

What’s at stake is whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control over the internet to enforce specific moral and religious judgments—judgments that deny marginalized people access to speech, community, history, and truth—into law.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Thelgor (he/him)Mar 8

Electronic Frontier Foundation Mar 8

EFF's Jillian York is inspired by Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya and keeps her memory alive in the fight for free expression. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/admiring-our-heroes-international-womens-day-five-women-tech-eff-admires-0

Admiring Our Heroes for International Women’s Day: Five Women In Tech That EFF Admires

In honor of International Women’s Day, we asked five women at EFF about women in digital rights, freedom of expression, technology, and tech activism who have inspired us. Anna Politkovskaya Jillian York, Activist This International Women’s Day, I want to honor the memory of Anna Politkovskaya, the...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Thelgor (he/him)Mar 2

Electronic Frontier Foundation Mar 1

"These drones are basically being pushed as flying cops, but a cop is not allowed to just take a peek in my backyard whenever they want," EFF’s Beryl Lipton told Law360, nor are they “allowed to just be taking notes about what's going on in a private space." https://www.law360.com/articles/2444886

Are New Police Drone Programs A Big Help Or Big Brother? - Law360

Police are increasingly using drones as first responders to 911 calls, a practice they say helps them respond to crises much faster with far fewer officers, but that privacy advocates warn could lead to mass, warrantless surveillance.

Thelgor (he/him)Feb 17

Electronic Frontier Foundation Feb 16

Don’t be fooled by Ring’s latest attempt to make mass surveillance and real-time identification the new norm in our neighborhoods. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/no-one-including-our-furry-friends-will-be-safer-rings-surveillance-nightmare-0

No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare

Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad offered a vision of our streets that should leave every person unsettled about the company’s goals for disintegrating our privacy in public.In the ad, disguised as a heartfelt effort to reunite the lost dogs of the country with their innocent owners, the company...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Thelgor (he/him)Feb 13

gwire Feb 13

Outrageous and innevitable

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/12/bondi-spying-on-congressional-epstein-searches-should-be-a-major-scandal/

Bondi Spying On Congressional Epstein Searches Should Be A Major Scandal

Yesterday, Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared before the House Judiciary Committee. Among the more notable exchanges was when Rep. Pramila Jayapal asked some of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims who…

Techdirt

Thelgor (he/him)Feb 11

Electronic Frontier Foundation Feb 10

Ring has announced a new “Search Party” feature that could eventually bring mass biometric surveillance to our streets. It’s on by default. Shut it off.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/no-one-including-our-furry-friends-will-be-safer-rings-surveillance-nightmare-0

No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Thelgor (he/him)Feb 6

Electronic Frontier Foundation Feb 5

ICE and CBP face-scanned 100,000 people last year. So EFF is proud to support Senator Markey’s “ICE Out of My Face Act,” which will stop these agencies’ biometric surveillance. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/yes-ice-out-my-face-act

Yes to the “ICE Out of Our Faces 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...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Thelgor (he/him)Feb 1

Mastodon Jan 31

We are excited to share that we are beginning work on a new onboarding experiment for #Mastodon: Default Server Recommendations.

Our intent for this experiment is to recommend the closest server geographically that is in the correct language during the sign-up flow. We will be running this experiment on our iOS and Android apps only to start.

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Thelgor (he/him)Feb 1

GooglyEyesOnMagicCards Jan 31

Look, I'm just trying to get you to watch my video! Not even selling anything! https://youtu.be/1ghaCgoeDfQ

#SilvergillPeddler #mtg #MagicTheGathering #MTGLorwyn #EastCoastPlaytesters

Thelgor (he/him)Jan 21

Doctor M. Popular Jan 21

New phishing scam pretending to be from an official Mastodon account.

Mastodon does not send out verification requests like this. So don't click the link if you receive a message like this, just report it as spam.