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EFFector Vol. 36, No. 9 Thursday, July 11, 2024
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A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
ISSN 1062-9424
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In our 811th issue:
* Victory! Supreme Court Rules Platforms Have First Amendment Right to Decide What Speech to Carry, Free of State Mandates
The U.S. Supreme Court correctly found that social media platforms, like
newspapers, bookstores, and art galleries before them, have First Amendment
rights to curate and edit the speech of others they deliver to their users,
and the government has a very limited role in dictating what social media
platforms must and must not publish.
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* It’s Time For Lawmakers to Listen to Courts: Your Law Regulating Online Speech Will Harm Internet Users’ Free Speech Rights
Whatever the good intentions of lawmakers, laws that censor the internet
directly harm people’s ability to speak online, access others’ speech,
remain anonymous, and preserve their privacy. Recent decisions by the Supreme
Court and two federal district courts underscore how these laws, in addition
to being unconstitutional, are also bad policy.
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EFF Updates
* How to Fix the Internet Podcast: Chronicling Online Communities
Director, writer, and actor Alex Winter — a leading documentarian of the
evolution of internet communities — joins EFF’s Cindy Cohn and Jason
Kelley to discuss the harms of behavioral advertising, what algorithms can
and can’t be blamed for, and promoting the kind of digital literacy that
can bring about a better internet for all of us.
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* Government Has Extremely Heavy Burden to Justify TikTok Ban, EFF Tells Appeals Court
The federal ban on TikTok must be put under the finest judicial microscope to
determine its constitutionality, EFF and others argued in a
friend-of-the-court brief filed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.
Circuit.
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* Drone As First Responder Programs Are Swarming Across the United States
Look up! We’ll probably see many more drones overhead as more police
departments seek to implement a popular project justifying the deployment of
unmanned aerial vehicles: the “drone as first responder.”
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* Victory! Grand Jury Finds Sacramento Cops Illegally Shared Driver Data
For the past year, EFF has been sounding the alarm about police in California
illegally sharing drivers' location data with anti-abortion states, putting
abortion seekers and providers at risk of prosecution. So we applaud the
Sacramento County Grand Jury for hearing this call and investigating two
police agencies that had been unlawfully sharing this data out-of-state.
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* Beyond Pride Month: Protections for LGBTQ+ People All Year Round
The end of June concluded LGBTQ+ Pride month, yet the risks LGBTQ+ people
face persist every month of the year. We know it feels overwhelming to think
about how to keep yourself safe, so here are some quick and easy steps you
can take to protect yourself at in-person events, as well as to protect your
data—everything from your private messages with friends to your pictures
and browsing history.
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* Audio Version of EFFector Newsletter
Here’s an audio version of EFFector. We hope you enjoy it!
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Announcements
* EFF Welcomes Tarah Wheeler to Its Board of Directors
EFF is honored to announce that Tarah Wheeler — a social scientist studying
international conflict, an author, and a poker player who is CEO of the
cybersecurity compliance company Red Queen Dynamics — has joined EFF’s
Board of Directors.
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* EFF Livestream Series Coming to a Platform Near You!
EFF is excited to kick off a new series of livestream events this summer!
Please join EFF staff and fellow digital freedom supporters as we dive into
three topics near and dear to our hearts: The U.S. Supreme Court Takes on the
Internet (July 18), Reproductive Justice in the Digital Age (Aug. 28), and
How to Protest with Privacy in Mind (Oct. 17). RSVP now!
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* Craig Newmark Philanthropies Matches EFF's Monthly Donors
Craig Newmark Philanthropies will match up to $30,000 for your entire first
year as a new monthly or annual EFF Sustaining Donor! Many thanks to Craig
Newmark — founder of craigslist and a persistent supporter of digital
freedom — for making this possible.
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Job Openings
* Director of Major Gifts
EFF seeks a full-time Director of Major Gifts to develop and implement donor
engagement and fundraising strategies while also stewarding and cultivating
top-level major donor relationships. You will be responsible for setting and
implementing EFF’s strategy for major and mid-level donors, as well as
planned gifts; your portfolio will include relationships with about 100
current major donors and estates, who you will steward through our giving
societies and individual engagement plans. Working closely with your
Membership colleagues, you will craft fundraising materials for major
donors’ annual giving and engage donors through a slate of online and
in-person events. While we expect you to learn enough about our work to
converse with our donor community, you will work closely with our lawyers,
activists, technologists, and executives to provide deeper connections for
our highly engaged donors. As a seasoned major gifts fundraiser, you will
have a vision for what is possible building on our giving societies and
individualized strategies for cultivation and stewardship; this includes
strategies for acquisition, upgrade, and asks for exceptional gifts.
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MiniLinks
- Surgeon General's Call For Labels On Social Media Is 'Fearmongering,' Say Opponents (NPR)
“The surgeon general is leaning into sort of fearmongering and concern
without a scientific basis to label speech platforms that we all use to
share, express ourselves, and that teens all use and likening them to
dangerous products like cigarettes or vehicles,” EFF’s Aaron Mackey told
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly.
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- Abortion Surveillance Isn’t New But Monitoring Has Increased Post Dobbs, Activists Say (States Newsroom)
“It hasn’t really been very long since /Dobbs/ and since states have
actually started implementing extremely abortion restrictive laws, so we’re
still in sort of the nascent stages of abortion prosecutions,” EFF’s Lisa
Femia said.
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- Telegram Says It Has ‘About 30 Engineers’; Security Experts Say That’s A Red Flag (TechCrunch)
“Telegram is not just a messaging app, it is also a social media platform.
As a social media platform, it is sitting on an enormous amount of user
data,” EFF’s Eva Galperin said. “‘Thirty engineers’ means that
there is no one to fight legal requests, there is no infrastructure for
dealing with abuse and content moderation issues.”
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