NEW: @evangreer.bsky.social director of @fightforthefuture.org spoke with @wired.com about the latest on Madison Square Garden’s surveillance practices & exceptionalism when it comes to elites like Taylor Swift.

WIRED@wired.com · 2w ago

This exception could be a preview of “a future where privacy is a luxury for the elite few and the rest of us are subjected to pervasive surveillance everywhere we go,” says Evan Greer, director of the digital rights group Fight for the Future. www.wired.com/story/for-ta...

Narrow majority to allow the urgent motion to reinstate #ChatControl 1.0 mass scans. 331 in favor. 304 against. 11 abstentions. A dark day for privacy and democracy. On Thursday, there will be a vote on the substance of the law. Only an absolute majority can stop it. 🚨 https://fightchatcontrol.eu

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

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You know what makes talking about AI and privacy legislation less boring? Drag queens and drinks! Join us for @fightforthefuture.org's Pride Month happy hour to hear from experts like @onekade.bsky.social! Where: Dani's Queer Bar When: Wednesday, June 10th from 7-10pm fftf.link/draggingtech

ATL: we’re outside Flock HQ telling Flock and the entire police tech industry that surveillance will never bring us safety! @deflockatlanta.org @atldemsoc.bsky.social @conmijente.bsky.social @mediajustice.bsky.social @18millionrising.bsky.social

Don’t believe the claims about ‘kids safety’ behind the push for Online ID checks. They are and always have been about surveillance and censorship. @cassiewillson.bsky.social is spot on in this video

Palantir is working on a tool for ICE that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a “confidence score” on the person’s current address. @josephcox.bsky.social breaks it down. Watch our latest episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-QH...

ICE surveillance is directly connected to ICE violence. One of the most concrete things that progressive leaders can do in cities targeted by ICE is work to roll back surveillance ASAP: -Cancel contracts with Flock -Ban facial recognition -End private camera registries -Data privacy protections

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods

404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...

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How do online id checks impact abortion access? We’ll be discussing this and more of your questions tomorrow during our r/prochoice AMA with guests @eff.org @taylorlorenz.bsky.social @woodhullfreedom.bsky.social

From the prochoice community on Reddit: We are digital rights and abortion access advocates concerned about how online ID checks/age verification censors abortion info + sex ed, AMA Thursday!

Explore this post and more from the prochoice community

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These companies already pulled ICE tracking apps in the US. I don't have high hopes if the Trump admin demands it, they won't also pull LGBTQ apps from their app stores. www.wired.com/story/apple-...

Apple Pulls China’s Top Gay Dating Apps After Government Order

The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China’s marginalized LGBTQ+ community.

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Abolish the app store

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Thank god that the app store is there to protect users. techcrunch.com/2025/09/24/n...

Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms | TechCrunch

A new call recording app is gaining traction for offering to pay users for voice data from calls, which is sold to AI companies.

techcrunch.com

Hi! We are fighting this tooth and nail and have been for years even though we lost a major foundation funder because of our vocal and effective opposition to KOSA. Anyhow here's our donate page ;-) www.fightforthefuture.org/donate/

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Donate We rely on donations from everyday people just like you to fund our strategic activism. Please make a recurring donation to our organization so we can continue to fight for your digital rights....

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Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 11mo ago

“No one is fighting back against one of the biggest threats to our very ability to fight back.”

The invasion of the jellyfish, I'm here for it.

Jellyfish invasion shuts down reactors at French nuclear power station

Operator EDF says the incident does not pose a threat to the safety of the plant, its workers or the environment.

politico.eu

We tried to tell people it wouldn't stop with sex or porn or whatever bogeyman was going to be used to end online anonymity. Australia has declared that Google will now have to verify all users for age/identity. mashable.com/article/micr...

Age verification is coming to search engines in Australia

The new rules take effect at the end of 2025.

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Instead of working to protect Americans' privacy, today the FTC is hosting what amounts to an anti-trans rally. Nobody is more obsessed with controlling the private decisions of the American people than Republicans.

s. baum@transvestigations.bsky.social · last yr.

Hi all—I'll be periodically live-posting today's FTC event on GAC's supposed "deceptive trade practices." Trump's anti-trans agenda is getting creative—cracking down on (or at least intimidating) GAC providers w/ misapplied consumer protection laws. The event will be...interesting. [A THREAD 🏳️‍⚧️🧵]

Happy birthday (some time soon) to my dear friend and co-leader of @fightforthefuture.org, @evangreer.bsky.social . Looking forward to #40moreyearsofEvanGreer "blasting members on both sides of the aisles" (thanks Ted Cruz for this amazing moment in a hearing). www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWOz...

Ted Cruz calls Fight for the Future "remarkable" 😉

YouTube video by Fight for the Future

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We are all shocked (read: not at all) that the crypto industry's push to elect Trump and other Rs has not resulted in more bipartisanship and may be the death knell for the big crypto market restructure bills. www.coindesk.com/news-analysi...

Dems Stall Stablecoin Bill, Jeopardizing More Important Crypto Regulation Bill

The Senate's stablecoin bill's issues may delay work on the far more important market structure legislation.

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Lots of very high profile UK biologists sign a letter saying that biological sex isn't binary or immutable and that the Supreme Court's ruling is scientifically wrong! We really need to hammer home how the anti-trans side is anti-science (you can add your name still if you are in a relevant field)

Literally everyone's Magic Solution for whatever they think is wrong with social media comes down to Someone Should Stop Those People From Being Able To Speak. Do YOU want Donald Trump and his gang of thugs to be the ones doing that? Because we all know who they'll stop from speaking.

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

🌬️ @fightforthefuture.org is #hiring a Senior Campaign Director! Deadline: March 17. See this and other job openings in our Digital Rights Job Board: buff.ly/UL5DwAd #TechJobs #DRJobs #JobSearch

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I love this news! At @fightforthefuture.org, we have been fortunate to fight with and alongside @seanvitka.bsky.social and look forward to doing so in the years ahead.

Demand Progress@demandprogress.bsky.social · last yr.

BIG NEWS: Sean Vitka, our policy director since 2023, has been named as our new executive director! We're excited about our next chapter, which also involves us staffing up! We're looking to hire a development director, a new policy director & a part-time constituent organizer.

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

This is not law. It couldn’t withstand legal scrutiny. Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.

Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · last yr.

Real question. What is an “illegal protest”? Real question. He was convicted of a crime. Why hasn’t he been expelled?

Wanna work with me against technofascism?@fightforthefuture.org is hiring! We are a queer and trans run org that aims to bring an abolitionist and ruthlessly strategic approach to tech policy fights. We get shit done AND we have a 4 day work week ;-) nrgconsultinggroup.applytojob.com/apply/gLzw01...

Fight for the Future: Senior Campaign Director - NRG Consulting Group - Career Page

Apply to Fight for the Future: Senior Campaign Director at NRG Consulting Group in Remote.

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Federal workers serve the American people—not an unelected billionaire on a power trip. Musk’s 48-hour stunt is a sham, meant to gut public services & hand power to corporations. Workers won’t waste time on his chaos. Do not respond unless directed. #SaveOurServices

So this happened last night.

The Stonewall Riots happened because trans people, particularly of color, rose up against state violence. You can’t even begin to tell the story without our trans ancestors and elders. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

U.S. Park Service Strikes Transgender References From Stonewall Website

The “T” was removed in references to L.G.B.T.Q.+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights.

nytimes.com