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Hi team --

Accountable Tech relies on support from concerned folks all around the country and the world. With your help, we were able to make our largest impact yet in 2022, and I wanted to share some of my favorite highlights from our work this year.

But before I do, I want to put in a plug for our end-of-year fundraising campaign. We’re only 89 donors away from hitting our grassroots goal [[link removed]] , and your support has helped make accomplishments like these possible:

*
Passing
the
California
Age
Appropriate
Design
Code
–
Accountable
Tech
collaborated
with
partners
and
youth
organizations
to
pass
a
first-of-its-kind
law
in
California
that
will
require
online
platforms
to
prioritize
young
people’s
safety
and
privacy
by
design
and
default.
This
bipartisan
legislation
offers
a
roadmap
for
other
states
to
follow
suit
with
greater
protections
for
kids,
teens,
and
young
people
online.
*
Fighting
Back
Against
Elon
Musk’s
Twitter
–
Although
our
campaign
to
stop
Elon
Musk
from
buying
Twitter
didn’t
work,
we
immediately
pivoted
to
an
advertiser
focused
campaign,
urging
them
to
stop
buying
ads
on
the
platform
and
fueling
Elon’s
decisions
to
roll
back
Twitter’s
safeguards.
Since
we
co-launched
the
#StopToxicTwitter
campaign
more
than
half
of
Twitter’s
top
100
advertisers
have
stopped
running
ads
on
the
platform
in
a
major
blow
to
the
company’s
revenue.
*
Calling
on
Google
to
Protect
the
Privacy
of
Abortion
Seekers
–
After
the
leak
of
the
draft
Supreme
Court
decision
overturning
Roe
v.
Wade
,
we
called
on
Google
to
stop
collecting
and
retaining
location
data
for
the
threat
it
poses
to
those
seeking
reproductive
care.
When
Google
announced
a
vague
update
to
the
location
data
retention
policy
for
users
who
might
visit
an
abortion
clinic,
we
had
questions.
So
our
team
set
out
to
find
answers
and
our
resulting
research
shows
that
Google
is
still
failing
to
meet
its
committed
changes
about
location
data
deletion.
We
followed
up
by
delivering
over
160,000
petition
signatures
directly
to
Google
HQ
in
DC
and
calling
on
them
to
finally
stop
collecting
and
retaining
users’
location
data.
*
Elevating
and
Empowering
Young
People
–
We
are
supporting
youth
activists
and
organizations
like
the
LOG
OFF
Movement
by
sharing
the
stories
and
the
lived
experiences
of
young
people
facing
the
challenges
of
Big
Tech’s
harms.
We
hosted
a
youth
roundtable
with
Sen.
Richard
Blumenthal
and
partnered
with
young
diverse
digital
creators
to
amplify
their
demands
to
rein
in
Big
Tech.
*
Taking
on
Big
Tech’s
Monopoly
Power
from
Every
Angle
–
As
the
European
Union
finalized
the
most
significant
global
legislative
package
to
rein
in
Big
Tech’s
societal
harms
and
monopoly
power,
we
worked
with
American
leaders
to
rally
support
for
this
historic
legislation
that
has
already
resulted
in
significant
changes
from
companies
like
Apple.
We’ve
advocated
for
similar
legislation
in
the
U.S.
In
2021
we
filed
a
rulemaking
petition
urging
the
Federal
Trade
Commission
(FTC)
to
ban
surveillance
advertising
as
an
unfair
method
of
competition
controlled
by
too
few
Big
Tech
companies.
One
year
later,
in
August
of
2022,
the
FTC
"announced
it
is
exploring
rules
to
crack
down
on
harmful
commercial
surveillance
and
lax
data
security”
and
cited
our
rulemaking
petition
in
their
announcement.

Our outsized impact this year was made possible by folks like you who joined Accountable Tech’s advocacy campaigns, spread the word to friends and family, and helped hold Big Tech companies to account.

So, can you pitch in a grassroots donation to continue this work into 2023 and beyond as we scale our impact? A gift of $5, $10, or $25 will support the successful rollout of our 2023 strategy so together we can continue protecting our digital information infrastructure from the likes of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. [[link removed]]

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Thanks for pitching in, team. We couldn’t have done all of this important work to hold Big Tech monopolies accountable in 2022 without the power of people — like you! — behind us.

— Kenya, Digital Manager at Accountable Tech
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