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We are having our first meeting! This will be to connect with technologists, activists, and concerned citizens so that we can get more organized and outline next steps for dealing with Flock and data centers across the state.
May 20 at 7:30 PM
https://www.fldigitalrights.org/general-meeting-on-may-20-flock-data-centers-and-team-structure/
#Florida #Privacy #Flock #ALPR #AI #DataCenter #Tech #DigitalRights
Join us in a few minutes for our virtual social hour! We'll be hanging out and shooting the breeze, maybe talking about the new @simplex public channel update?
https://www.miamitech.club/events/
Virtual social hour this Wednesday at 7:30 PM. Come join us and connect with others interested in technology in South Florida!
https://www.miamitech.club/events/
We'd all like the internet to be a better place—for kids and adults alike. But in the name of online safety, governments around the world are racing to impose a dangerous new system of control. Are age gates the silver bullet to the internet's problems they're being promoted as? Or are we being sold a bill of goods?
Virtual social hour this Wednesday at 7:30 PM. Come join us and connect with others interested in technology in South Florida!
https://www.miamitech.club/events/
I am honored to share the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Best International Reporting with Dake Kang, Byron Tau, Aniruddha Ghosal and Garance Burke for our reporting revealing how Silicon Valley largely designed and built China's surveillance state and enabled human rights abuses.
Full package: https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/dake-kang-garance-burke-byron-tau-aniruddha-ghosal-and-yael-grauer-contributor-associated
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@abosio/116510789020968757
We're so excited to use this - thank you!
Plans for one data center get stopped while plans for another one get found out
Okeechobee County stopped
https://www.wlrn.org/government-politics/2026-04-29/scrapped-data-center-in-okeechobee-county-mirrors-rising-opposition-to-data-centers-in-south-florida
Miami-Dade started
https://www.wlrn.org/government-politics/2026-04-29/new-miami-dade-data-center-sparks-concerns-in-black-community
Today the FL Legislature will discuss congressional redistricting.
They will also vote on the AI chatbot age verification bill which will force all Floridians to dox themselves to Big Tech.
Please share these alternatives with your reps:
https://www.fldigitalrights.org/alternatives-to-age-verification-for-ai-chats/
The i-Ready lawsuit is a great example of national-seeming issues actually being local issues. Similar to Flock, the decision and responsibility of using i-Ready is being made by local government officials. The people it impacts are your neighbors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YeOX2BNFMo
Florida Digital Rights Assoc.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Yael Grauer
