Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

AI recommends nuclear war 95% of the time. www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

Pete Hegseth vs. Anthropic: Read Our Letter On AI Surveillance Congress must step in to ensure these tools are used lawfully and that this administration commits to respecting our constitutional rights.

Electronic Frontiers Georgia strongly opposes "disabling the safeties" for AI-based weapons systems. The life you save may be your own. www.commoncause.org/resources/pe...

Georgia lawmakers weigh $550K drone pilot program for schools YouTube video by Atlanta News First

Georgia lawmakers weigh $550K drone pilot program for schools. Only 4 schools for this price. youtube.com/shorts/qDO6I...

Fulton County Judge Officially Dismisses RICO Charges Against All 61 #StopCopCity Defendants Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr Failed to Obtain Constitutional Authority from Governor Brian Kemp to File Sweeping RICO Conspiracy Indictment More than three months after a pretrial hearing in th...

Fulton County Judge Officially Dismisses RICO Charges Against All 61 #StopCopCity Defendants atlantadailyworld.com/2025/12/31/f...

Judge To Texas: You Can’t Age-Gate The Entire Internet Without Evidence Over the summer, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority upended decades of traditional First Amendment standards to say that Texas could put in place an age verification law if that law was inte…

Judge To Texas: You Can’t Age-Gate The Entire Internet Without Evidence www.techdirt.com/2025/12/31/j...

Smyrna City Council OKs 70 new Flock Safety cameras for $5.7 million Two of the new cameras will be drones.

Smyrna City Council OKs 70 new Flock Safety cameras for $5.7 million www.wsbtv.com/news/local/c...

Congress may be about to create the “bad internet” - Salon.com Online privacy protections could be demolished, advocates warn

Happy Holidays! www.salon.com/2025/12/22/c...

This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix For Stalkers YouTube video by Benn Jordan

Unsecured cameras may put you at risk. youtu.be/vU1-uiUlHTo

Georgia state senators call for further age verification legislation, app store restrictions for minors A group of Georgia state senators are calling for further age verification legislation, greater parental control of minors’ app store activity and restrictions on the usage of personal information gat...

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Why Isn’t Online Age Verification Just Like Showing Your ID In Person? This blog also appears in our Age Verification Resource Hub: our one-stop shop for users seeking to understand what age-gating laws actually do, what’s at stake, how to protect yourself, and why EFF o...

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TAKE BACK TECH III 🗓️ APRIL 17-19 🍑 ATLANTA Come and gather with organizers, artists, advocates, academics, and workers who are ready to build the tech justice movement we need right now.

Take Back Tech 3 will be in Atlanta this year, April 17-19, 2026. www.takebacktech.com

Trade secrets protections shield information from public view When a government contractor’s right to privacy outweighs the public’s right to know

Trade secrecy obstructs justice chicagoreader.com/news/reader-...

We all want the internet to be a safer place. But ID checks won’t make us safer, no matter who you are, how old you are, or what you’re doing online.

A Vast Camera System Now Feeds Information to Police on Drivers Across the US Flock cameras have been called invasive, insecure, and unconstitutional. Can a grassroots movement beat them back?

A Vast Camera System Now Feeds Information to Police on Drivers Across the US truthout.org/articles/a-v...

A Surveillance Mandate Disguised As Child Safety: Why the GUARD Act A new bill sponsored by Sen. Hawley (D-MO), Sen. Blumenthal (D-CT), Sen. Britt (R-AL), Sen. Warner (D-VA), and Sen. Murphy (D-CT) would require AI chatbots to verify all users’ ages, prohibit minors

Protecting young people’s online safety is incredibly important, but to do so by forcing invasive ID checks, criminalizing AI tools, and banning teens from legitimate digital spaces is not a good way out of this. Tell Congress to oppose the GUARD Act today. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Pr...

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Exclusive: Democratic-led states are inadvertently sharing drivers' data with ICE, officials say www.reuters.com/world/democr...

Application Gatekeeping: An Ever-Expanding Pathway to Internet Censorship Apple and Google use their app stores to shape what apps you can and cannot have on devices, but now more governments—including the U.S. government—are using legal and extralegal tools to lean on thes...

Application Gatekeeping: An Ever-Expanding Pathway to Internet Censorship www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Understanding the Georgia Public Service Commission, Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup At a time when data centers are in the news, and models of cost sharing for their power requirements are up for debate, one state government agency holds a key position: Th

Interested in the Georgia PSC, data centers, and our future utility rates? EFGA presents "Understanding the Georgia Public Service Commission", this Wednesday, October 29th, 7:00pm (presentation starts at 7:30pm), hybrid meeting. www.meetup.com/electronic-f...

I Need 1% of Georgia to Watch This Video YouTube video by Hank Green

Who should pay for the future power requirements of data centers? If you are in Georgia, please vote (and share this)! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgvE...

Georgia judge to toss landmark racketeering charges against 'Cop City' protesters A Georgia judge says he's going to dismiss racketeering charges against all 61 defendants accused of trying to stop the construction of a police and firefighter training facility known as “Cop City."

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An age verification provider is potentially leaking information about people visiting pornographic websites We observed that, despite claiming to offer “double anonymity” options (intended to hide user traffic), AgeGO collects the URL of the video the user attempts to watch … when users select the “Selfi…

Don’t flash your ID online, it will be used against you. alecmuffett.com/article/114807

Flock Wants to Partner With Consumer Dashcam Company That Takes ‘Trillions of Images’ a Month That dashcam in your car could soon integrate with Flock, the surveillance company providing license plate data to DHS and local police.

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Minimum Viable Authoritarianism, Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup Parts of the hacker community have always been concerned with techno dystopias and authoritarianism. Recent events have prompted many people to wonder if the United States

Just scheduled: Wed., Sept. 10th, "Minimum Viable Authoritarianism": www.meetup.com/electronic-f...

CBP Had Access to More than 80,000 Flock AI Cameras Nationwide Flock said it has "paused all federal pilots" after police departments said they didn't realize they were sharing access with Customs and Border Patrol.

CBP Had Access to More than 80,000 Flock AI Cameras Nationwide www.404media.co/cbp-had-acce...

Cohn: Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying. A single searchable database of all Americans’ sensitive information is the goal of the president and Palantir – and the dream of authoritarians.

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Electronic Frontiers Forums at Dragon Con is now on Bluesky! Check back frequently for the latest news and any schedule updates. Our full schedule for 2025 is published here: archive.efforums.net/index.php/20...

Bluesky blocks service in Mississippi over age assurance law | TechCrunch In a blog post published on Friday, the company explains that, as a small team, it doesn't have the resources to make the substantial technical changes this type of law would require, and it raised co...

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Trump wants states to feed voter info into powerful citizenship data program • Stateline The Trump administration is developing a powerful data tool it claims will let states identify noncitizens registered to vote. But Democratic critics and data experts warn it could allow the federal g...

Trump wants states to feed voter info into powerful citizenship data program stateline.org/2025/08/15/t...