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https://panopticlick.eff.org/ source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1013243542422949889

Increasing competition will not fix all the problems with online platforms—but it is one of the few strategies that has the promise of opening up space for innovation. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/competition-civil-liberties-and-internet-giants source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1013195727260999680

FOSTA is "casting great uncertainty" on whether health and human rights advocacy for sex workers is illegal, says EFF's @DavidGreene. And that seems "completely purposeful by Congress."
https://t.co/g1QJTunW2v source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1013165276932780033

Let's go crazy: To celebrate the end of a case that's been in court for over a decade, we turned the famous 29-second clip of the baby dancing to music by Prince into a ten hour video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oajltHXLcjE&feature=youtu.be source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1013135082092023808

"The government would love to get access...to track people and match families who are living undocumented inside the United States," says EFF Senior Staff Attorney @lynch_jen about the dark side of potential plans to use DNA data to reunite families. https://theintercept.com/2018/06/27/immigration-families-dna-testing/ source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1013119984782880768

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✅ Excellent benefits, including student loan and housing cost assistance
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https://www.eff.org/opportunities/jobs/legislative-activist source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1013087768820486149

It's @XYZ's birthday, and they will donate $1 to EFF for each .xyz domain renewed or registered in June. Do you—or a friend—need a new domain or a domain renewed? This is a good time to do it! https://gen.xyz/birthday/ source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1012878389676396544

Want to read more about our FOSTA challenge?

We've posted all of the preliminary injunction papers, including declarations from @alexflevy @MehlmanOrozco @kate & Dr. Alix Lutnick on our Woodhull Freedom Foundation et al v. US case page https://www.eff.org/cases/woodhull-freedom-foundation-et-al-v-united-states source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1012855738727739392

If there were real alternatives to the big tech giants, users could vote with their feet by leaving a platform or service that isn’t working for them.

That freedom to choose is vital to free speech, privacy, and innovation. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/competition-civil-liberties-and-internet-giants source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1012848691227619328

Right now, faulty facial recognition systems used by law enforcement could “implicate people for crimes they didn’t commit and shift the burden to innocent defendants to show they are not who the system says they are,” says EFF’s Jen Lynch. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-26/ai-has-a-race-problem source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1012817992126566400

Californians: tell your assemblymember to restore #NetNeutrality to #SB822 https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=10738 source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1012810252385828865

Our Stupid Patent of the Month comes from an alleged cult leader who managed to patent "improving performance" on a treadmill. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/stupid-patent-month-alleged-cult-leader-wants-improve-performance source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1012798453561245696

Our lead plaintiff in the lawsuit against FOSTA—@WoodhullSFA—vehemently opposes sex trafficking. Unfortunately, their harm reduction efforts could, under the law, be seen as "facilitating prostitution."

https://twitter.com/WoodhullSFA/status/1012726152446840833 source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1012776466449424384

Consumer Reports found various, significant issues with Facebook's privacy settings—months after the Cambridge Analytica scandal https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/cr-researchers-find-facebook-privacy-settings-maximize-data-collection/ source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1012772690367799296

FOSTA's expansions of federal criminal law are fraught with vague and ambiguous terms that create great uncertainty about what online speech is illegal, including speech by those vehemently opposed to sex trafficking
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/eff-sues-invalidate-fosta-unconstitutional-internet-censorship-law source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1012765861856174080

When a YouTube clip with a baby dancing to Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" was removed by Universal back in 2007, even we would not have predicted it would result in a decade-long court battle. Congratulations to our client, Stephanie Lenz. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/after-more-decade-litigation-dancing-baby-ready-move source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1012761095046434817

RT @EFF: Wondering what you can do to help stop the passage of #Article13 and #Article11 in the EU? EFF's @mala and Member of Parliament @S… source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1012754044647981056

When a YouTube clip with a baby dancing to Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" was removed by Universal back in 2007, even we would not have predicted it would result in a decade-long court battle. Congratulations to our client, Stephanie Lenz. source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1012749537176252417

The UK's Stephen Fry has some rather strong words to say about #Article13: Tell your MEP to vote against it next week! https://t.co/mGzBOAsLEJ https://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/1012363805714714624 source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1012726693813874688

RT @EFF: FOSTA is the most comprehensive censorship of Internet speech in America in the last 20 years.

We are asking the court to block e… source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1012720193393475585