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Are you the "tech person" of the family? 👩‍💻

Now EFF has resources you can share! Send your family and friends to Digital Rights Bytes to get their tech questions answered.

Whatever you type into a chatbot or search engine should be protected from unnecessary use or sharing, EFF’s @mariotrujillo.bsky.social told @mashableofficial.bsky.social. We need “strong data privacy laws that apply to all companies, whether it be Google, OpenAI, TikTok, or DeepSeek."

Huh, a new declassified CIA guide to sabotaging fascism has suddenly gone viral www.404media.co/declassified...

A sweeping executive order, citing the fires around L.A., tees up a legal fight with the state over whether the federal government can use an emergency to sidestep local environmental law.

The court’s decision “would be front-and-center in any argument that Congress needs to impose a warrant requirement for these backdoor searches,” EFF’s Andrew Crocker told @theintercept.com. “That tends to be the kind of thing that Congress takes note of.”

"China's EAST, nicknamed the artificial sun, shattered its own world record for plasma confinement… sustain plasma for over 1,000 seconds is considered a crucial milestone in fusion research (of) replicating the sun's nuclear fusion processes for clean, limitless energy…"

Another result of this silence is that federal influenza updates are lagging. Epidemiologist Caitlin Rivers dug up data for all 50 states. And look at that: what seemed like a fall from a January peak turns out to be a rebound. caitlinrivers.substack.com/p/outbreak-o... 6/12

Health and Human Services has shut down most of its communications. No new studies at the National Institutes of Health can be launched. www.statnews.com/2025/01/27/n... 5/12

Now that the US is leaving the World Health Organization, CDC workers have been ordered to stop working with the agency. This will interrupt work on outbreaks of Marburg virus and mpox, among many other diseases. apnews.com/article/cdc-... 3/12

Under Paul Dans, Project 2025 assembled a database of more than 10,000 Trump loyalist job candidates ready to place into federal agencies. It's a ready-use toolkit to create a second Trump administration that would be more MAGA than his first.

(Published Aug. 2024)

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is currently stacked with academic experts well versed in the science of vaccines. A new secretary of Health and Human Services could rapidly change that, Katherine J. Wu writes. theatln.tc/BQ7rbFmn

For over a decade EFF has argued that warrantless backdoor searches of 702 data are unconstitutional—now a federal court agrees with us.

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I know you're exhausted from fighting, I am TOO. You're not alone. Your voice STILL matters. The only time it doesn't is when we don't use it. We need to fight for Democracy. They want us to think they have all the power and it's just NOT true, UNLESS we absolutely give up BUT we will NEVER GIVE UP!

VICTORY! After over a decade, a federal court has declared that warrantless backdoor searches of US person’s communications collected under Section 702 of FISA is unconstitutional.

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