Collective action is being taken by mods on various subreddits to ban Twitter/X links: https://www.404media.co/hundreds-of-subreddits-are-considering-banning-all-links-to-x/

A recent hack of a location data company revealed apps that are spying on us behind the scenes. https://www.wired.com/story/gravy-location-data-app-leak-rtb/

The Stop Copaganda Project curates stories that address surveillance tech, policing + centralized power. Learn more about this project here: https://www.stopcopaganda.org

You can read “Curlews” in full here:

https://tinyurl.com/58mxk34c

Meet Cecilia Ananías Soto, author of "Curlews" - where we catch a disturbing glimpse of how fertility monitoring apps can be weaponized. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/961dc4bdb7a3010056a0eb08803a49ce3ae4d229d9bc8eb7f86af99309f4a9ee/b1cb2c22addfb7d70f0f65f7032307bf1c108909278c2ab63baa6865573bf6df.webp https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/961dc4bdb7a3010056a0eb08803a49ce3ae4d229d9bc8eb7f86af99309f4a9ee/2cb41b194e633e18d80f0dcb0aedc0fad161248d1e5d76136e202b46d5333d76.webp

Will the decentralized tech community step up? Will they scale the liberatory tools that can help ensure the safety of marginalized people?

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-01-15-report-release-call-to-action-financial-confidentiality-in-the-age-of-digital-surveillance/

Convocation Research + Design’s latest audit of privacy technologies available to mutual aid organizations is revealing and raises some questions…

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Financial-Confidentiality-in-the-Age-of-Digital-Surveillance.pdf

‼️NEW BLOG: "With the incoming administration’s aspirations to fascism, digital justice activists want the decentralized tech community to build liberatory tools for our collective safety. "

- @liaholland.bsky.social

https://tinyurl.com/bdhk2xrt

General Motors and its subsidiary OnStar are banned from selling customer geolocation and driving behavior data for five years. https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/16/24345470/gm-banned-selling-driving-data-insurance-ftc

Mask bans violate our fundamental civil liberties and considering the ongoing risks of death or disablement due to COVID and Bird Flu, criminalizing mask wearing is a public health + disability justice issue. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/11/12/mask-bans-protest-surveillance

We signed onto a letter with NYCLU urging Governor Hochul, President Pro Tempore Stewart-Cousins, and Speaker Hestie to stop mask ban legislation advancement in New York State. https://www.nyclu.org/resources/policy/testimonies/letter-urging-new-york-lawmakers-to-reject-a-state-mask-ban

Trump picks to lead gov’t agencies like FCC, FTC may censor speech and make the internet less free.

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/1/14/how-the-trump-administration-threatens-internet-freedoms

Correction: the bill is not bipartisan. Still, an important step in the right the direction to stall this ban, which shouldnt be happening at all. All of Big Tech needs to be regulated- but a ban on TikTok isn't the answer.

Contact your lawmakers now and tell them to Co-sponsor the Extend the TikTok Deadline Act now. Then pass privacy and antitrust laws to rein in Big Tech and protect all users’ safety and human rights!https://www.dontbantiktok.com/

Yesterday Sen. Markey spoke out in support of Creators and asked Congress to extend the TikTok ban deadline by 270 days. Markey also submitted a bipartisan brief to repeal the ban on first amendment grounds. https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/tiktok-ban-ed-markey-massachusetts/

You’ve probably read plenty of hot takes about last weeks’ changes to Meta’s content moderation policies. But there are a few things getting lost in the noise. https://touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org/free-speech-is-bigger-than-trump-and-zuck/

Big businesses are deploying AI + other shadowy algorithms to restrict our access to the things that matter most. The CA Privacy Protection Agency needs our help to adopt some of strongest safeguards against this: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/help-california-rein-in-big-tech-algorithms/

As abortion surveillance intensifies, it’s important to know which states have bans, restrictions or protections in place. Here's a tool to help with that:

https://states.guttmacher.org/policies/

Sen. Blumenthal is eager to continue the push for KOSA + admitted this week that the point of this bill is (surprise!) censorship. https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/09/blumenthal-so-eager-to-bring-back-kosa-he-admits-its-purpose-is-censorship/

Arguing about content moderation rules on Big Tech platforms is like working the refs in a game we always lose.

https://truthout.org/articles/metas-allowance-of-hate-speech-is-another-side-effect-of-big-tech-monopoly/