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/
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EFF-Austin advocates establishment and protection of digital rights and defense of the wealth of digital information, innovation, and technology.
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
Privacy GuidesRE: https://mastodon.social/@effaustin/116132076492780407
đź“… Save the date! Nate Bartram and Jonah Aragon will be in Austin, TX on March 13 to host a live, in-person episode of đź”´ This Week in Privacy; then attend EFF-Austin's party at The Butterfly Bar/Vortex!!
If you're in town, come say hi to @nateb and @jonah, and find out more about privacy from all the excellent guest speakers đź’›
#Austin #EFFAustin #Party #AustinTX #EFF #Privacy #PrivacyGuides #Events
@Prometheus They have a lot of parking at Butterfly Bar/Vortex, including neighborhood parking, but yes, it gets VERY crowded, especially during SX, you sometimes have to park blocks away. Biking, carpooling, ridesharing, or taking a bus are all excellent choices :)
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/
Em 
There's never been a better time to
abandon Discord and start using Matrix with Element for your communities đź’š
#Discord #AgeVerification #Censorship #MassSurveillance #Privacy #E2EE #Matrix
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/
The Mass Surveillance Debate Is Back
Austinites shut down two mass surveillance programs last year, worried about how the technology threatens privacy and aids Donald Trump’s attacks on immigrants. Advocates from over 30 state and local groups banded together in a coalition called No ALPRs to convince City Council to end the Austin Police Department’s automated license plate reader program in […]