Michael Barclay

@mbarc
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Part-time volunteer at Electronic Frontier Foundation (posts are my own). Former partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, specializing in patent, copyright, and trade secret law. I enjoy travel, playing the guitar and ukulele, cat videos, Taylor Swift concerts, and Oxford commas.
ICE has spent hundreds of millions on surveillance. Some technologists are building tools to find it, map it, and push back. 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.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
A three judge panel has upheld Proposition 50, the California redistricting initiative. By a 2-1 vote, it rejected the Republican's request for a preliminary injunction enjoining the new districts (a Trump-appointed judge dissented).
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.994285/gov.uscourts.cacd.994285.216.0.pdf
Copyright claims can’t be the gatekeeper to the internet. EFF urges SCOTUS to apply patent-law limits and stop overbroad secondary liability. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/eff-court-supreme-court-must-rein-expansive-secondary-copyright-liability
EFF to Court: The Supreme Court Must Rein in Expansive Secondary Copyright Liability

If the Supreme Court doesn’t reverse a lower court’s ruling, internet service providers (ISPs) could be forced to terminate people’s internet access based on nothing more than mere accusations of copyright infringement. This would threaten innocent users who rely on broadband for essential aspects...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Your internet shouldn’t vanish because a roommate is accused of copyright infringement. SCOTUS must rein in overbroad secondary liability that chills lawful access. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/eff-court-supreme-court-must-rein-expansive-secondary-copyright-liability
EFF to Court: The Supreme Court Must Rein in Expansive Secondary Copyright Liability

If the Supreme Court doesn’t reverse a lower court’s ruling, internet service providers (ISPs) could be forced to terminate people’s internet access based on nothing more than mere accusations of copyright infringement. This would threaten innocent users who rely on broadband for essential aspects...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
SCOTUS should toss the Fourth Circuit’s made-up ‘material contribution’ test that stretches contributory liability and pressures ISPs to cut off whole households from the internet on mere accusations of copyright infringement. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/eff-court-supreme-court-must-rein-expansive-secondary-copyright-liability
EFF to Court: The Supreme Court Must Rein in Expansive Secondary Copyright Liability

If the Supreme Court doesn’t reverse a lower court’s ruling, internet service providers (ISPs) could be forced to terminate people’s internet access based on nothing more than mere accusations of copyright infringement. This would threaten innocent users who rely on broadband for essential aspects...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
It sounds better in the original Japanese.

New Signal update just dropped

#SignalGate #USpolitics #WorldPolitics

I'm just going to leave Freedom of the Press Foundation's excellent guide to leaking to the press right here in case anyone happens to need it: https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/sharing-sensitive-leaks-press/
Here’s how to share sensitive leaks with the press

Thinking about securely leaking information to news organizations? This guide will show you how.

Freedom of the Press
1. Go to Starbucks
2. Order a small black coffee
3. Tell them your name is Waldo
4. Leave
TV is horrible tonight
#SCOTUS
#immunity