Miami Tech Enthusiast Club πŸ“Ž

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MTEC (Miami Tech Enthusiast Club) is a club dedicated to fostering a local community who are interested in technology in the broadest sense, from products to coding to systems administration to Linux, while facilitating advocacy for digital and consumer rights.
Websitehttps://www.miamitech.club/
Bloghttps://www.miamitech.club/blog/
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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

General Meeting on May 20 - Flock, data centers, and team structure

With DeFlock announcing their week of action for August 16-22, we think it's a good time to have our first meeting!

Florida Digital Rights Association

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/

#Tech #Privacy #Miami

Events

Join us for the different events that we organize or participate in. Calendar can be found here.

MTEC | Miami Tech Enthusiast Club

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/

#Tech #Miami #Programming #Privacy #Linux

Events

Join us for the different events that we organize or participate in. Calendar can be found here.

MTEC | Miami Tech Enthusiast Club
Are age gates the solution to the internet's problems? Or are they a new system of control? We're explaining why social media bans can't sidestep the Constitution on our EFFector Podcast. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/californias-terrible-no-good-very-bad-social-media-ban-effector-389
πŸ‘Ž California's Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Social Media Ban | EFFector 38.9

We'd all like the internet to be a better placeβ€”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?

Electronic Frontier Foundation

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/

#Tech #Miami #Programming #Privacy #Linux

Events

Join us for the different events that we organize or participate in. Calendar can be found here.

MTEC | Miami Tech Enthusiast Club

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!

Scrapped data center in Okeechobee County mirrors rising opposition to data centers in South Florida

Plans for a 200-acre data center in Okeechobee County, about 60 miles west of West Palm Beach, have been scrapped amid widespread opposition against such projects.

WLRN

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/

#Florida #Privacy

Alternatives to age verification for AI chats

There are more solutions to our tech problems than to just collect more information on people.

Florida Digital Rights Association

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

#DigitalRights #Privacy #iReady #Miami

i-Ready lawsuit spotlights student data and classroom screen time

YouTube