S Smith
@justice30.bsky.social
Standing up for Justice, Peace, Human Rights, the Environment, Nature, Love...
🕊️ Permanent #CeasefireNOW 🕊️
Socialist
Message to my Government:
🇬🇧 STOP being #ComplicitInGenocide 🇬🇧
RP ≠ Agreement
Like does not necessarily = agreement
🕊️ Permanent #CeasefireNOW 🕊️
Socialist
Message to my Government:
🇬🇧 STOP being #ComplicitInGenocide 🇬🇧
RP ≠ Agreement
Like does not necessarily = agreement
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S Smith
@justice30.bsky.social
· Dec 11
#Israel #Gaza #WarCrimes
💔 🥹 😱 🥹 💔
STOP the ongoing #Genocide
HIND'S HALL 2 - #Macklemore
What happened to us?
youtu.be/qRRoTR9HGFU
💔 🥹 😱 🥹 💔
STOP the ongoing #Genocide
HIND'S HALL 2 - #Macklemore
What happened to us?
youtu.be/qRRoTR9HGFU
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So-called "smart" devices are pushed heavily for the holidays, but be mindful of what you're opting that gift recipient into. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays
With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year: smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers,
www.eff.org
November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
So-called "smart" devices are pushed heavily for the holidays, but be mindful of what you're opting that gift recipient into. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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En Privacy International seguimos interesadas en entender cómo las integraciones verticales de las grandes empresas tecnológicas impactan el mercado y nuestros derechos.
Puedes leer nuestra investigación en español aquí 👉
privacyinternational.org/es/long-read...
Puedes leer nuestra investigación en español aquí 👉
privacyinternational.org/es/long-read...
Descifrando las integraciones tecnológicas verticales: ¿Por qué son importantes?
INTRODUCCIÓN
privacyinternational.org
November 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
En Privacy International seguimos interesadas en entender cómo las integraciones verticales de las grandes empresas tecnológicas impactan el mercado y nuestros derechos.
Puedes leer nuestra investigación en español aquí 👉
privacyinternational.org/es/long-read...
Puedes leer nuestra investigación en español aquí 👉
privacyinternational.org/es/long-read...
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The GUARD Act’s sponsors claim it will keep our children safe, but that’s not true. It will undermine safety and autonomy by replacing parental guidance with government mandates and building mass surveillance infrastructure instead of privacy controls. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
A Surveillance Mandate Disguised As Child Safety: Why the GUARD Act
A new bill sponsored by Sen. Hawley (R-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
www.eff.org
November 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The GUARD Act’s sponsors claim it will keep our children safe, but that’s not true. It will undermine safety and autonomy by replacing parental guidance with government mandates and building mass surveillance infrastructure instead of privacy controls. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Meta’s surveillance systems are pervasive, but there are ways to limit how it collects and uses your personal data. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect
www.eff.org
November 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Meta’s surveillance systems are pervasive, but there are ways to limit how it collects and uses your personal data. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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🔴 We are live with Episode 29 of This Week in Privacy! See you there: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3Qs...
GrapheneOS Desktop Mode is Here!｜This Week in Privacy #29 (Nov 28, 2025)
GrapheneOS now has expanded desktop mode features in beta, X (Twitter) has been doxing user's locations, Android's Quick Share is now compatible with Apple's AirDrop and much more, join us for This…
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
🔴 We are live with Episode 29 of This Week in Privacy! See you there: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3Qs...
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EFF is helping you reclaim your privacy by:
🐾 Ending online tracking without consent
🗺️ Getting location tracking off the map
😡 Blocking behavioral advertising
Learn more—Take Back CTRL today: takebackctrl.org/reclaim-you...
🐾 Ending online tracking without consent
🗺️ Getting location tracking off the map
😡 Blocking behavioral advertising
Learn more—Take Back CTRL today: takebackctrl.org/reclaim-you...
November 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
EFF is helping you reclaim your privacy by:
🐾 Ending online tracking without consent
🗺️ Getting location tracking off the map
😡 Blocking behavioral advertising
Learn more—Take Back CTRL today: takebackctrl.org/reclaim-you...
🐾 Ending online tracking without consent
🗺️ Getting location tracking off the map
😡 Blocking behavioral advertising
Learn more—Take Back CTRL today: takebackctrl.org/reclaim-you...
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ICE officers shouldn't be allowed to stick a phone in anyone's face to run face recognition without their consent. A coalition of privacy and civil rights advocates are telling DHS to end the program immediately.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Rights Organizations Demand Halt to Mobile Fortify, ICE's Handheld
A coalition of privacy, civil liberties and civil rights organizations are demanding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shut down the use of Mobile Fortify, release the agency's privacy
www.eff.org
November 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
ICE officers shouldn't be allowed to stick a phone in anyone's face to run face recognition without their consent. A coalition of privacy and civil rights advocates are telling DHS to end the program immediately.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Advocate for privacy & digital rights in your local community: We have new designs available in the Privacy Guides shop, designed by (human!) hand by our resident designer Em 😎
🥃 New drinkware is now available at shop.privacyguides.org/collections/...
🥃 New drinkware is now available at shop.privacyguides.org/collections/...
November 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Advocate for privacy & digital rights in your local community: We have new designs available in the Privacy Guides shop, designed by (human!) hand by our resident designer Em 😎
🥃 New drinkware is now available at shop.privacyguides.org/collections/...
🥃 New drinkware is now available at shop.privacyguides.org/collections/...
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We’re thankful for our legislative champions, including @AsmChrisWard.bsky.social, author of California’s IPA Reform Act, which EFF is proud to sponsor. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
California’s Cities and Counties Must Step Up Their Privacy Game.
California is a national leader on consumer privacy protections, having passed a landmark comprehensive privacy law and established the nation’s first state privacy agency. Now, its local governments
www.eff.org
November 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
We’re thankful for our legislative champions, including @AsmChrisWard.bsky.social, author of California’s IPA Reform Act, which EFF is proud to sponsor. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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We are thankful for the help from @consumerreports.org on our #OptOutOctober project. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security
Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a time it makes the process of protecting your privacy
www.eff.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
We are thankful for the help from @consumerreports.org on our #OptOutOctober project. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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We're grateful for the @Archive.org and @WikimediaFoundation.org for continuing to demonstrate that the open web is the best web.
November 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
We're grateful for the @Archive.org and @WikimediaFoundation.org for continuing to demonstrate that the open web is the best web.
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Thank you to all the journalists and whistleblowers who bravely speak out against threats to our digital rights.
November 28, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Thank you to all the journalists and whistleblowers who bravely speak out against threats to our digital rights.
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EFF is thankful for @kekerllp.bsky.social, helping us train the next generation of digital rights lawyers.
November 28, 2025 at 3:32 AM
EFF is thankful for @kekerllp.bsky.social, helping us train the next generation of digital rights lawyers.
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Thank you to the volunteer translators who’ve made Privacy Badger available in 29 languages! Want to help keep Privacy Badger accessible worldwide? Join us on Transifex! explore.transifex.com/eff/privacy...
The Privacy Badger translation project on Transifex
Join Privacy Badger project in Transifex, and contribute to the world's largest localization community
explore.transifex.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Thank you to the volunteer translators who’ve made Privacy Badger available in 29 languages! Want to help keep Privacy Badger accessible worldwide? Join us on Transifex! explore.transifex.com/eff/privacy...
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Special thanks to the developers building our decentralized future. Mastodon, Bluesky, Pixelfed, IPFS, Matrix, Solid, and countless other projects advancing open standards and keeping the internet weird, resilient, and truly shaped by its users.
November 28, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Special thanks to the developers building our decentralized future. Mastodon, Bluesky, Pixelfed, IPFS, Matrix, Solid, and countless other projects advancing open standards and keeping the internet weird, resilient, and truly shaped by its users.
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We’re grateful for all of the grassroots groups, educators, and librarians, who support communities through digital security training. Privacy is a team sport, so every effort make a difference for everyone.
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM
We’re grateful for all of the grassroots groups, educators, and librarians, who support communities through digital security training. Privacy is a team sport, so every effort make a difference for everyone.
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Exciting news! We are launching our first privacy advocacy designs in our merch shop at shop.privacyguides.org - Check it out, we hope you like what we have to offer! Your support directly helps us continue to create quality, independent privacy & security resources.
November 28, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Exciting news! We are launching our first privacy advocacy designs in our merch shop at shop.privacyguides.org - Check it out, we hope you like what we have to offer! Your support directly helps us continue to create quality, independent privacy & security resources.
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Chat Control is back, but slightly changed:
❌ No backdoor of encryption
❌ No forced scanning
🚨 But: Age verification (no anonymity)
The update just quietly passed in the EU Council & now needs to be discussed with the EU Parliament.
Will you keep fighting against #ChatControl?
❌ No backdoor of encryption
❌ No forced scanning
🚨 But: Age verification (no anonymity)
The update just quietly passed in the EU Council & now needs to be discussed with the EU Parliament.
Will you keep fighting against #ChatControl?
November 27, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Chat Control is back, but slightly changed:
❌ No backdoor of encryption
❌ No forced scanning
🚨 But: Age verification (no anonymity)
The update just quietly passed in the EU Council & now needs to be discussed with the EU Parliament.
Will you keep fighting against #ChatControl?
❌ No backdoor of encryption
❌ No forced scanning
🚨 But: Age verification (no anonymity)
The update just quietly passed in the EU Council & now needs to be discussed with the EU Parliament.
Will you keep fighting against #ChatControl?
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"A data regulator that fails to deter bad practices is not worth having."
Rules only work if they're actually enforced. With the ICO, we've seen a collapse in the use of corrective powers when data protection laws are broken.
Read about our call for an inquiry.
www.theregister.com/2025/11/25/i...
Rules only work if they're actually enforced. With the ICO, we've seen a collapse in the use of corrective powers when data protection laws are broken.
Read about our call for an inquiry.
www.theregister.com/2025/11/25/i...
Calls grow for inquiry into UK data watchdog after MoD leak
: ICO accused of backing off oversight as fallout from Afghan blunder widens
www.theregister.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:43 AM
"A data regulator that fails to deter bad practices is not worth having."
Rules only work if they're actually enforced. With the ICO, we've seen a collapse in the use of corrective powers when data protection laws are broken.
Read about our call for an inquiry.
www.theregister.com/2025/11/25/i...
Rules only work if they're actually enforced. With the ICO, we've seen a collapse in the use of corrective powers when data protection laws are broken.
Read about our call for an inquiry.
www.theregister.com/2025/11/25/i...
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EFF has so much to be grateful for this year. This week, we’ll be sharing our thanks for the people, organizations, and corporate sponsors who support us, collaborate with us, and are our allies in our work to defend civil liberties in the digital world.
November 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
EFF has so much to be grateful for this year. This week, we’ll be sharing our thanks for the people, organizations, and corporate sponsors who support us, collaborate with us, and are our allies in our work to defend civil liberties in the digital world.
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A huge thanks to our 30,000+ donors. You are the backbone of our work. Without your support, we wouldn’t be able to fight for digital freedoms in the way we do now. Thank you!
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
A huge thanks to our 30,000+ donors. You are the backbone of our work. Without your support, we wouldn’t be able to fight for digital freedoms in the way we do now. Thank you!
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The coalition demonstrated outside the National Policing Conference.
We stood against the tech being promoted inside because it fuels racism, enables unchecked police power and threatens all our rights.
@amnestyuk.bsky.social
@medact.bsky.social
@stopwatchuk.bsky.social
@migrantsrights.bsky.social
We stood against the tech being promoted inside because it fuels racism, enables unchecked police power and threatens all our rights.
@amnestyuk.bsky.social
@medact.bsky.social
@stopwatchuk.bsky.social
@migrantsrights.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The coalition demonstrated outside the National Policing Conference.
We stood against the tech being promoted inside because it fuels racism, enables unchecked police power and threatens all our rights.
@amnestyuk.bsky.social
@medact.bsky.social
@stopwatchuk.bsky.social
@migrantsrights.bsky.social
We stood against the tech being promoted inside because it fuels racism, enables unchecked police power and threatens all our rights.
@amnestyuk.bsky.social
@medact.bsky.social
@stopwatchuk.bsky.social
@migrantsrights.bsky.social
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Last week the Safety Not Surveillance coalition hit the streets of London.
We sent the message that so-called 'crime-predicting' tech must be BANNED!
Because we have the right to be presumed innocent, not predicted guilty.
Sign up for campaign updates ➡️ action.openrightsgroup.org/join-fight-a...
We sent the message that so-called 'crime-predicting' tech must be BANNED!
Because we have the right to be presumed innocent, not predicted guilty.
Sign up for campaign updates ➡️ action.openrightsgroup.org/join-fight-a...
November 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Last week the Safety Not Surveillance coalition hit the streets of London.
We sent the message that so-called 'crime-predicting' tech must be BANNED!
Because we have the right to be presumed innocent, not predicted guilty.
Sign up for campaign updates ➡️ action.openrightsgroup.org/join-fight-a...
We sent the message that so-called 'crime-predicting' tech must be BANNED!
Because we have the right to be presumed innocent, not predicted guilty.
Sign up for campaign updates ➡️ action.openrightsgroup.org/join-fight-a...
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🎉 noyb WIN: The French DPA has fined Conde Nast €750.000 for placing cookies on its Vanity Fair website without consent! The sanction follows a series of noyb complaints from 2019 (!).
The decision: www.cnil.fr/en/cookies-p...
noyb's original complaints: noyb.eu/en/say-no-co...
The decision: www.cnil.fr/en/cookies-p...
noyb's original complaints: noyb.eu/en/say-no-co...
Cookies placed without consent: the company that publishes the website “vanityfair.fr” fined 750,000 euros by the CNIL
Background information The company LES PUBLICATIONS CONDE NAST publishes printed and online magazines, including the magazine Vanity Fair. In December 2019, the CNIL received a public complaint from t...
www.cnil.fr
November 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
🎉 noyb WIN: The French DPA has fined Conde Nast €750.000 for placing cookies on its Vanity Fair website without consent! The sanction follows a series of noyb complaints from 2019 (!).
The decision: www.cnil.fr/en/cookies-p...
noyb's original complaints: noyb.eu/en/say-no-co...
The decision: www.cnil.fr/en/cookies-p...
noyb's original complaints: noyb.eu/en/say-no-co...
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Our societies are militarising:
1️⃣ Governments are using data-intensive systems for military ends
2️⃣ Non-defence companies are entering the defence sector
3️⃣ Defence tech is seeping into civic spaces
4️⃣ Tech used in conflict is used commercially too
privacyinternational.org/long-read/56...
1️⃣ Governments are using data-intensive systems for military ends
2️⃣ Non-defence companies are entering the defence sector
3️⃣ Defence tech is seeping into civic spaces
4️⃣ Tech used in conflict is used commercially too
privacyinternational.org/long-read/56...
What is Militarisation of Tech?
Governments are rapidly militarising our societies. They are already increasing military spending, undermining civil rights protections, and reducing social protection programmes.
privacyinternational.org
November 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Our societies are militarising:
1️⃣ Governments are using data-intensive systems for military ends
2️⃣ Non-defence companies are entering the defence sector
3️⃣ Defence tech is seeping into civic spaces
4️⃣ Tech used in conflict is used commercially too
privacyinternational.org/long-read/56...
1️⃣ Governments are using data-intensive systems for military ends
2️⃣ Non-defence companies are entering the defence sector
3️⃣ Defence tech is seeping into civic spaces
4️⃣ Tech used in conflict is used commercially too
privacyinternational.org/long-read/56...