We're hosting another event this Friday, 2pm-6pm in conjunction with Pillsbury and Creative Commons. Want to meet Lawrence Lessig!? This is your chance :) https://www.meetup.com/eff-austin/events/313440939/

We'll be at the City of Austin's Digital Equity Community Listening Session tomorrow, come say hi! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/digital-equity-community-listening-session-resource-fair-tickets-1982390644783?aff=oddtdtcreator

Just over a week until EFF-Austin Interactive! We hope you'll join us!

Our party is a little over two weeks away! Join us! Tell your friends! https://www.meetup.com/eff-austin/events/313440939/

We're having a party, and you're all invited! https://www.meetup.com/eff-austin/events/313440939/

EFF-Austin helped consult on the TRUST Act. The emergency exception provision is too long, and will need to be revisited at some point, but we think the transparency this will provide around the city's contracts with 3rd party technology vendors is a step in the right direction. https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/city-council-moves-toward-adding-surveillance-regulation-rules-to-city-code/

"Kevin Welch of EFF-Austin, a digital civil liberties organization, said the LVT contract is fundamentally flawed because it has no enforcement mechanism. “I see data abused and misused by well-intentioned people every day,” Welch said. “The reality is, the only data that is safe is the data that is not collected. There is no bureaucratic means of reforming this. And there is no reason to trust a contract that has no enforcement mechanism.”" https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/the-mass-surveillance-debate-is-back/

Here's EFF-Austin's Kevin Welch speaking to city council at yesterday's work session about the dangers of putting LVT cameras in Austin's parks. We are happy to report that, based on our testimony and the testimony of many other activist groups in town, the proposed contract has again been postponed.