David Greene
@davidgreene.bsky.social
@EFF's Senior Counsel, 1st Amdt prof @ USF, ex-SFSU. NOT any of the other David Greenes, like the ex-NPR host, the ex-UGA QB, or the 1 who directed Grease. Posts r mine only, so hands off.
as we said. it's a big problem.
We (@eff.org & @aclu-norcal.bsky.social) have asked several techcos to closely scrutinize and resist compliance with administrative subpoenas from ICE, CBP, and other DHS components. DHS is using these subpoenas to punish those exercising their First Amendment rights. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Open Letter to Tech Companies: Protect Your Users From Lawless DHS Subpoenas
EFF is calling on technology companies like Meta and Google to stand up for their users by resisting DHS lawless administrative subpoenas for user data.
www.eff.org
February 14, 2026 at 2:01 AM
as we said. it's a big problem.
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👋 EFF's team of activists, lawyers, and technologists regularly take on multiple threats to digital rights and privacy. We've noticed, we're not distracted, and we'll be fighting back.
Zuck taking advantage of every opportunity, I guess. "World's going to shit? Well, I guess EFF will be too busy opposing fascism to notice that we launched surveillance glasses!"
Cool, cool.
Cool, cool.
Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
February 13, 2026 at 9:44 PM
👋 EFF's team of activists, lawyers, and technologists regularly take on multiple threats to digital rights and privacy. We've noticed, we're not distracted, and we'll be fighting back.
We've noticed.
Zuck taking advantage of every opportunity, I guess. "World's going to shit? Well, I guess EFF will be too busy opposing fascism to notice that we launched surveillance glasses!"
Cool, cool.
Cool, cool.
Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
February 13, 2026 at 8:43 PM
We've noticed.
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I’ve had a tradition for decades of getting a coffee and newspaper everytime I’m at the airport—and despite a lot of stores with “news” in the title it’s surprisingly hard to buy physical newspapers in the airport these days.
I bought a physical newspaper today for the first time in ages and I was taken aback by how slight it is. I guess that I have muscle memory of newspapers feeling so much more substantial in my fingers.
February 13, 2026 at 4:47 AM
I’ve had a tradition for decades of getting a coffee and newspaper everytime I’m at the airport—and despite a lot of stores with “news” in the title it’s surprisingly hard to buy physical newspapers in the airport these days.
Wherein I say, "Il s’agit là du dernier exemple en date d'assignations à comparaître visant à obtenir des informations sur les comptes de personnes ayant tenu des propos déplaisant à cette administration." www.20minutes.fr/monde/etats-...
Trump accusé d’utiliser la bureaucratie pour intimider ses opposants
Un simple mail adressé à un magistrat a déclenché une demande pour accéder aux données personnelles d’un retraité de Philadelphie. Ces procédures inquiètent de nombreuses ONG et juristes
www.20minutes.fr
February 13, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Wherein I say, "Il s’agit là du dernier exemple en date d'assignations à comparaître visant à obtenir des informations sur les comptes de personnes ayant tenu des propos déplaisant à cette administration." www.20minutes.fr/monde/etats-...
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In case you were looking for nearly 4k words on why Joseph Gordon-Levitt got Section 230 exactly backwards, I got you covered.
Also, if anyone knows him, please share. I hope we can get him on the right track with this stuff.
Also, if anyone knows him, please share. I hope we can get him on the right track with this stuff.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt Goes To Washington DC, Gets Section 230 Completely Backwards
You may have heard last week that actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt went to Washington DC and gave a short speech at an event put on by Senator Dick Durbin calling for the sunsetting of Section 230. It’s a short speech, and…
You may have heard last week that actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt went to Washington DC and gave a short speech at an event put on by Senator Dick Durbin calling for the sunsetting of Section 230. It’s a short speech, and…
Joseph Gordon-Levitt Goes To Washington DC, Gets Section 230 Completely Backwards
You may have heard last week that actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt went to Washington DC and gave a short speech at an event put on by Senator Dick Durbin calling for the sunsetting of Section 230. It’s a short speech, and it gets almost everything wrong about Section 230. Watch it here: Let me first say that, while I’m sure some will rush to jump in and say “oh, it’s just some Hollywood actor guy, jumping into something he doesn’t understand,” I actually think that’s a little unfair about JGL.
www.techdirt.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:19 PM
In case you were looking for nearly 4k words on why Joseph Gordon-Levitt got Section 230 exactly backwards, I got you covered.
Also, if anyone knows him, please share. I hope we can get him on the right track with this stuff.
Also, if anyone knows him, please share. I hope we can get him on the right track with this stuff.
RIP Sandy Steers, the longtime Big Bear advocate and SLAPP victim who was famously sued for racketeering (yes! civil RICO!) by a developer when she shared a USFS employee's report with other govt agencies including the Army COE. www.sbsun.com/2026/02/12/f...
Friends of Big Bear Valley Executive Director Sandy Steers dies
Steers, 73, was one of the founders of Friends of Big Bear Valley, which has operated a bald eagle webcam since 2015.
www.sbsun.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:34 AM
RIP Sandy Steers, the longtime Big Bear advocate and SLAPP victim who was famously sued for racketeering (yes! civil RICO!) by a developer when she shared a USFS employee's report with other govt agencies including the Army COE. www.sbsun.com/2026/02/12/f...
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Criticize the government online? DHS might demand Google hand over your info. Our latest EFFector breaks down Homeland Security's unlawful subpoenas targeting critics—plus our campaign for end-to-end encryption and a bill to stop government face scans. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
🗣 Homeland Security Wants Names | EFFector 38.3
Criticize the government online? The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) might ask Google to cough up your name. By abusing an investigative tool called "administrative subpoenas," DHS has been
www.eff.org
February 11, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Criticize the government online? DHS might demand Google hand over your info. Our latest EFFector breaks down Homeland Security's unlawful subpoenas targeting critics—plus our campaign for end-to-end encryption and a bill to stop government face scans. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
I watch this and the countless other examples of the toadies being gleefully cruel because they know Trump loves it and I think “surely history will condemn this awful person.”
And then I also think how likely it is they will be a guest commentator on CNN (etc.) in 10 years.
And then I also think how likely it is they will be a guest commentator on CNN (etc.) in 10 years.
Bondi laughing at the end is the real pièce de résistance. This is all just a big joke to her.
BONDI: You didn't ask Merrick Garland anything about Epstein
BALINT: Weak sauce
BONDI: And with this antisemitic culture right now, she voted against a resolution--
BALINT: You want to go there! Really? Talking about antisemitism to a woman who lost her grandfather in the Holocaust! *storms off*
BALINT: Weak sauce
BONDI: And with this antisemitic culture right now, she voted against a resolution--
BALINT: You want to go there! Really? Talking about antisemitism to a woman who lost her grandfather in the Holocaust! *storms off*
February 11, 2026 at 10:01 PM
I watch this and the countless other examples of the toadies being gleefully cruel because they know Trump loves it and I think “surely history will condemn this awful person.”
And then I also think how likely it is they will be a guest commentator on CNN (etc.) in 10 years.
And then I also think how likely it is they will be a guest commentator on CNN (etc.) in 10 years.
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Pretty impressive when you consider all of the activists and political dissidents who cannot safely (or wisely) transit through the UAE for fear of being detained!
Dubai International Airport keeps its title as the world's busiest airport for travelers with 95.2 million passengers in 2025.
Dubai International Airport handled a record 95.2 million passengers in 2025
Dubai International Airport remains the world's busiest airport for travelers, with 95.2 million passengers in 2025.
bit.ly
February 11, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Pretty impressive when you consider all of the activists and political dissidents who cannot safely (or wisely) transit through the UAE for fear of being detained!
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Looking forward to working with a lot of smart, committed people on this. One of the things that keeps me motivated is the belief that the post-Trump period (and there will be one) may be a time when genuine rethinking/rebuilding of democratic institutions is possible. We should be ready for it.
New Knight Institute Initiative to Focus on "Reconstructing Free Expression" After Trump. @jameeljaffer.bsky.social: "This initiative is meant to encourage creative and ambitious thinking about how to build a system of free expression that serves democracy better." knightcolumbia.org/content/new-...
New Knight Institute Initiative to Focus on “Reconstructing Free Expression” After Trump
knightcolumbia.org
February 11, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Looking forward to working with a lot of smart, committed people on this. One of the things that keeps me motivated is the belief that the post-Trump period (and there will be one) may be a time when genuine rethinking/rebuilding of democratic institutions is possible. We should be ready for it.
And to think we could have had Matt Gaetz as Attorney General ...
February 11, 2026 at 6:47 PM
And to think we could have had Matt Gaetz as Attorney General ...
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Even in stable times, rolling back protection for free speech online would be foolhardy and harmful, EFF’s @aaronmackey.bsky.social wrote for @talkingpointsmemo.com. In a moment when the Executive Branch seeks to censor speech online, it could be a nail in democracy’s coffin.
Behind the Misguided Bipartisan Push to Muzzle Free Speech Online
This story is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Even in stable times, rolling back protection for free speech online would be foolhardy and harmful, EFF’s @aaronmackey.bsky.social wrote for @talkingpointsmemo.com. In a moment when the Executive Branch seeks to censor speech online, it could be a nail in democracy’s coffin.
Pretty impressive when you consider all of the activists and political dissidents who cannot safely (or wisely) transit through the UAE for fear of being detained!
Dubai International Airport keeps its title as the world's busiest airport for travelers with 95.2 million passengers in 2025.
Dubai International Airport handled a record 95.2 million passengers in 2025
Dubai International Airport remains the world's busiest airport for travelers, with 95.2 million passengers in 2025.
bit.ly
February 11, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Pretty impressive when you consider all of the activists and political dissidents who cannot safely (or wisely) transit through the UAE for fear of being detained!
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Google promises to give users notice before turning their data over to law enforcement. This gives users an opportunity to challenge unlawful requests.
Sometimes, it breaks that promise to avoid delays.
Sometimes, it breaks that promise to avoid delays.
Amandla Thomas-Johnson didn’t know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena until months later. Google never gave him a chance to fight it. interc.pt/3O07xke
February 10, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Google promises to give users notice before turning their data over to law enforcement. This gives users an opportunity to challenge unlawful requests.
Sometimes, it breaks that promise to avoid delays.
Sometimes, it breaks that promise to avoid delays.
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The Department of Homeland Security is issuing lawless subpoenas for online user data. Tech companies need to do more to fight back. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Open Letter to Tech Companies: Protect Your Users From Lawless DHS
EFF is calling on technology companies like Meta and Google to stand up for their users by resisting DHS lawless administrative subpoenas for user data.
www.eff.org
February 10, 2026 at 6:15 PM
The Department of Homeland Security is issuing lawless subpoenas for online user data. Tech companies need to do more to fight back. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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The ACLU will keep fighting these one by one. But it would be a lot more efficient if tech companies would simply stepped up to fight on their users' behalf www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
February 10, 2026 at 6:40 PM
The ACLU will keep fighting these one by one. But it would be a lot more efficient if tech companies would simply stepped up to fight on their users' behalf www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Once again, DHS withdraws an illegal and unconstitutional subpoena after the ACLU challenges it in court. This is the third time in about as many months.
BREAKING: After we sued, DHS withdrew a subpoena seeking personal information about our client who criticized DHS' treatment of a man seeking asylum.
This is a win not just for our client, but for everyone’s First Amendment right to speak out without fear of government retaliation.
This is a win not just for our client, but for everyone’s First Amendment right to speak out without fear of government retaliation.
February 10, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Once again, DHS withdraws an illegal and unconstitutional subpoena after the ACLU challenges it in court. This is the third time in about as many months.
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Make sure you check out our map of covert ALPRs that the feds have installed near the border! www.eff.org/covertALPRmap
February 10, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Make sure you check out our map of covert ALPRs that the feds have installed near the border! www.eff.org/covertALPRmap
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We’re back with a new Speaking Freely Interview! Learn about developments in press freedom across the globe from Professor Yazan Badran, here: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Speaking Freely: Yazan Badran
Yazan Badran is an assistant professor in international media and communication studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and a researcher at the Echo research group. His research focuses on the
www.eff.org
February 10, 2026 at 9:04 PM
We’re back with a new Speaking Freely Interview! Learn about developments in press freedom across the globe from Professor Yazan Badran, here: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
well Alito was super-nice to Aguiñaga as the latter struggled during the Murthy v MO argument ...
They're calling it the most embarrassing op-ed of all time: The Louisiana SG, who has multiple cases pending before the Supreme Court right now, writing an essay about how his old boss, Justice Samuel Alito, is the nicest, smartest, bestest justice who ever lived www.foxnews.com/opinion/i-wo...
February 10, 2026 at 10:35 PM
well Alito was super-nice to Aguiñaga as the latter struggled during the Murthy v MO argument ...
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Administrative subpoenas intended to unmask critics of government action are just the tip of the speech-chilling iceberg.
My latest at MS NOW: www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
My latest at MS NOW: www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
February 10, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Administrative subpoenas intended to unmask critics of government action are just the tip of the speech-chilling iceberg.
My latest at MS NOW: www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
My latest at MS NOW: www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
We (@eff.org & @aclu-norcal.bsky.social) have asked several techcos to closely scrutinize and resist compliance with administrative subpoenas from ICE, CBP, and other DHS components. DHS is using these subpoenas to punish those exercising their First Amendment rights. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Open Letter to Tech Companies: Protect Your Users From Lawless DHS Subpoenas
EFF is calling on technology companies like Meta and Google to stand up for their users by resisting DHS lawless administrative subpoenas for user data.
www.eff.org
February 10, 2026 at 7:39 PM
We (@eff.org & @aclu-norcal.bsky.social) have asked several techcos to closely scrutinize and resist compliance with administrative subpoenas from ICE, CBP, and other DHS components. DHS is using these subpoenas to punish those exercising their First Amendment rights. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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With Ring, American consumers built the surveillance dragnet. Ring's Super Bowl ad, which highlighted a feature to find lost dogs, showed Ring is still, again, and always will be in the business of leveraging its network of luxury surveillance consumers www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
www.404media.co
February 10, 2026 at 3:45 PM
With Ring, American consumers built the surveillance dragnet. Ring's Super Bowl ad, which highlighted a feature to find lost dogs, showed Ring is still, again, and always will be in the business of leveraging its network of luxury surveillance consumers www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
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EFF asked Ring about the dystopian implications of its "search party" feature three months ago. This was its response. Reporters should continue asking www.eff.org/document/rin...
February 10, 2026 at 12:07 AM
EFF asked Ring about the dystopian implications of its "search party" feature three months ago. This was its response. Reporters should continue asking www.eff.org/document/rin...