Hally at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

January 16, 2024 at 11:10 PM

Tom Morello, Deerhoof, ACLU & more are speaking up for net neutrality

Only one day left to file a comment in support of net neutrality   John, Join Tom Morello, Deerhoof, the ACLU and more in calling on the FCC to restore net neutrality! Take Action Momentum is building again for one of the most popular internet polici…

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  Hally at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

January 11, 2024 at 10:33 PM

The internet needs you now

Help drive comments to the FCC before the deadline next Wednesday, January 17th!   John, TL;DR: If you care about fighting Big Tech, the monopolistic power of corporations, censorship, and/or believe that the Internet should be affordable and accessible t…

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  Ese, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

January 5, 2024 at 7:22 PM

Deadline approaching: 3 days to go

The deadline to submit a comment to the CFPB is Jan 8. Take action now.   John, The deadline to submit a comment to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) about digital wallets and payment apps like Venmo, PayPal or CashApp is this Monday, January…

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  The Team ❤️ · [email protected]

December 30, 2023 at 5:32 PM

Our promise to you

  John, At Fight for the Future, our power doesn’t come from being buddies with billionaires or cozying up to Congress. It comes from people like you. We’re known for being creative, strategic and ruthless. If we believe in something, we’ll put everything o…

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  Caitlin at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

December 29, 2023 at 3:02 PM

What do you care most about?

  Hi John, Every holiday season, I ask my kids what they care most about, so that we can donate to people protecting those things. Over the years we’ve donated to libraries, conservation groups helping sea turtles and snakes, and our local food bank. It’s …

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  Terri at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

December 28, 2023 at 5:32 PM

tl;dr of 2024 tech threats

  Hi John, I’ll keep this quick. There’s never been a time where our work has felt as urgent and pressing as right now. Let me give you the tl;dr. The explosion of artificial intelligence threatens to automate and exacerbate injustice in almost every as…

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  Ayele at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

December 26, 2023 at 6:05 PM

We need your help to defeat Amazon

We need your help.   Hi John, For the third year in a row we’ve had a huge win against Amazon. In 2021, we led a successful campaign that got Amazon to indefinitely suspend sales of facial recognition tech to police departments and prevented police depart…

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  Caitlin, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

December 21, 2023 at 3:30 PM

Demand D.C. lawmakers stop algorithmic discrimination

D.C. is considering major protections against algorithmic discrimination, let’s make it happen.   John, The D.C. Council is considering a bill that would lead the way in protecting its residents from algorithmic discrimination. We’ve already seen how disc…

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  KOSA Alert · [email protected]

December 19, 2023 at 5:02 PM

This worries me

Urgent: censorship bill coming   John, Urgent: there is a major push for a vote on the dangerous and misguided censorship bill known as the “Kids Online Safety Act” (KOSA) as soon as the Senate returns in January. They’re hoping to sneak this terrible b…

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  Ese, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

December 15, 2023 at 8:34 PM

Send a comment...take a step towards financial privacy

The CFPB is making new rules so payment apps protect your privacy. Send a comment now.   Hi John, Do you ever use apps like Venmo, CashApp, or Zelle to send money to friends and family? Sure, they can be a quick, easy and convenient way to transfer money, …

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  Leila, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

December 14, 2023 at 12:10 AM

✨​Victory and Tweet Action – Make DMs Safe

Meta is rolling out default end-to-end encryption; Slack and Discord must follow.   John, Big news: Meta has finally started rolling out default end-to-end encryption for one-on-one calls and messages on Messenger.1 This move will ensure millions of users…

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  Caitlin at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

December 12, 2023 at 8:27 PM

Cops can’t read Messenger messages anymore

  John, When Roe v. Wade was overturned, we went into crisis mode. It was immediately clear to us that the tech-enabled surveillance that we have been fighting for years would be used by state law enforcement agencies to target people for seeking, providi…

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  Lia at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

December 11, 2023 at 9:58 PM

Take action on digital book bans and library surveillance now

A concerning new report shows how data from reading a digital book could be used to endanger students—Congress needs to stop this. Can you contact your representatives now?   Hey John For the first time ever, a massively intersectional coalition of civil r…

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  Terri at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

December 8, 2023 at 1:05 AM

Escape the big corp consumer hellscape

Keep up the Fight ❤️   Hi John, We know this time of year can turn into a consumer hellscape. Resist the big corporations by making sure your holiday gifts support digital rights. Fight’s designers just dropped a new batch of merch that won’t track your eve…

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  Evan at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

December 6, 2023 at 8:22 PM

KOSA: Good news (for now)

Chip in and support the effort to stop KOSA   Hi John, I have some good news for once! We recently sounded the alarm because a top Senator planned to try to use an obscure Senate procedure called a “hotline” to ram through the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA…

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  Hally at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

November 30, 2023 at 8:18 PM

Hearing today on net neutrality

The Energy & Commerce Committee is trying to bully the FCC. Tell them you support net neutrality.   John The Energy & Commerce Committee held a hearing today about the FCC’s plans to reclassify broadband to a Title II service and reinstate net neut…

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  Sarah at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

November 28, 2023 at 5:08 PM

RE:🚨 Five alarm fire moment: massive surveillance reauth is a possibility

Did you see this news?   Hey—I wanted to make sure you saw this important email from Terri last night. We're hearing that dangerous mass surveillance reauthorization could get added to a "must-pass" bill today, so we’re flooding the offices of key senators …

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  Terri at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

November 28, 2023 at 1:42 AM

🚨 Five alarm fire moment: massive surveillance reauth is a possibility

It's been quite the Monday.   Hi John, BREAKING: Senator Schumer is making passage of the National Defense Authorization Act a top priority through the end of the year—a classic year-end opportunity to sneak through other “non-controversial bills.”1 But we…

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  Caitlin, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

November 15, 2023 at 5:28 PM

📣📣 Join this video series premiere event

  John, Join us on Thursday, November 16 at 3:00 pm ET for the launch of Take Back Our Internet - a collaborative campaign project by Fight for the Future and Exposure Labs (the award-winning film studio behind ‘The Social Dilemma’). With every keystroke, a…

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  Terri, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

November 14, 2023 at 4:24 PM

🛜 Your car is downloading and selling your texts

Car spying? Yeah, we need data privacy now!   John, When you get into your car in the morning, you probably think that what you say in the car stays in the car. Turns out your car just might be spying on you. A federal judge on last week refused to bring…

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  Ese, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

November 10, 2023 at 1:44 PM

Here’s how we fight financial surveillance

The deadline to submit a comment to Treasury and the IRS is November 13. Take action now.   Hi John, The US Treasury and IRS are proposing new rules1 that could mandate financial mass surveillance. The deadline to submit a comment is this Monday, Novembe…

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  Hally at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

November 1, 2023 at 8:46 PM

New House speaker is anti-net neutrality

Johnson wants Congress to codify the repeal of net neutrality. We can’t let that happen.   John, The new Speaker of the House could try to throw a wrench in the gears of restoring net neutrality. The FCC recently proposed a rule to restore Title II and n…

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  Hally at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

October 20, 2023 at 8:46 PM

Tell the FCC: Reinstate Net Neutrality!

Join Team Internet! Tell the FCC and Congress to reign in Big Telecom   Hey John, BIG NEWS: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted this week to launch a rule-making process as the first step to restore net neutrality. The rule now advances to an…

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  Anna at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

October 16, 2023 at 8:37 PM

Ex-Twitter? Join our newsletter for a better way to connect

We’ve launched a newsletter that digs into the quirks of online and offline life. Subscribe to keep up with our team!   Hey John, For years, we relied a lot on Twitter: it was a useful tool to keep in touch with our community, move campaigns forward, and b…

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  Ese, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

October 13, 2023 at 5:33 PM

Tell the government: hands off my money

It’s time to fight for the right to financial privacy.   Hi John, Financial data is some of your most sensitive information—everything from expenses, income, and cash flow to your debts and assets are private information you wouldn’t share with just anybod…

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  Lia at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

October 2, 2023 at 1:07 PM

Today is the day! Tell Congress NO to AI copyrights for big corps!

  John, #AIDayofAction is here! Along with our friends at United Musicians and Allied Workers, the Freelancers’ Union, and more, we are so excited to get this day started and hope you will join us by taking action for the rights of working artists not to b…

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  Evan, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

September 26, 2023 at 10:24 PM

BREAKING: FCC announces plan to restore net neutrality!

Big announcement by Chairwoman Rosenworcel today   John, Breaking news: the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just announced plans to restore net neutrality!1 This is a huge deal and something we’ve been working toward for years since former Verizon…

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  Lia, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

September 19, 2023 at 7:31 PM

Big corps replacing artists with AI? No copyrights for them!

Time to be louder than the lobbyists when it comes to Generative AI—let's demand Congress reduce copyrights for corporations that replace artists with AI   Hey John, With Big Tech & Media lobbyists swarming DC for closed-door meetings in Congress,4 ❤…

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  Caitlin, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

September 15, 2023 at 12:53 PM

To do list:

This fall we’re prioritizing these fights for your rights   John, As the season starts to change (you know, if you don’t live in part of the country still experiencing a heat wave…), folks head back to school, and Congress returns to D.C. from its summer b…

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  Caitlin, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

September 7, 2023 at 8:04 PM

BREAKING: FCC confirmation puts net neutrality in reach

FCC vote brings us closer to restoring net neutrality than we’ve been since 2017   John, Today, the Senate FINALLY voted to confirm the fifth FCC commissioner, Anna Gomez1. This means that after years of work we actually have a fully functioning FCC, and a…

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  Fight for the Future · [email protected]

September 6, 2023 at 9:11 PM

FCC Vote Imminent - act now!

Net neutrality’s been caught in the crossfire. We need to fill the FCC to make progress!   John, We finally have a chance to reverse Ajit Pai’s disastrous decision to gut net neutrality. President Biden promised to restore net neutrality, but telecom lobb…

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  Caitlin, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

August 8, 2023 at 11:18 PM

Stop TSA face scans

TSA plans to expand facial recognition surveillance to over 400 airports.   John, News recently broke about the wrongful arrest of a Black woman, Porcha Woodruff, as a result of biased, broken facial recognition technology. At the time of her arrest she wa…

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  Caitlin, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

July 24, 2023 at 6:07 PM

Stop the Bad Internet Bills

We’re organizing a week of action against bad internet bills   John, We’re going all out on a week of action to keep Congress from passing bills that would restrict everyone's rights online. Can you chip in right now to help keep these bad internet bills f…

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  Lia, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

July 21, 2023 at 11:29 PM

You're invited! Join our generative AI x human rights salon on July 31

Amnesty International and Fight for the Future are hosting a conversation on generative AI. Join us!   John, Our next Emerging Tech for Activists salon is coming up on Monday, July 31, 2023 at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET. This salon will discuss Generative AI and T…

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  Sarah, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

July 21, 2023 at 12:44 AM

Help us make these bad bills history

A wave of toxic bills is threatening to censor and surveil the entire Internet. Fight back during our Week of Action!   John, A wave of destructive internet bills has been bubbling up all year. We’ve been steadily building the opposition to these censorshi…

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  Ese, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

July 13, 2023 at 11:22 PM

DEADLINE APPROACHING: 2 days left

The deadline to submit a comment to the CFPB is July 15. Take action now.   John, We just sent our comment to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) about the business practices of data brokers, how they impact Internet users and their communities…

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  Caitlin, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

June 27, 2023 at 5:37 PM

Still fighting for net neutrality

We need the Senate to confirm the FCC commissioner, ASAP.   John, Now this is a step in the right direction: last week, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) nominee Anna Gomez said that she would support key steps to restore net neutrality.1 It is infu…

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  Caitlin at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

June 21, 2023 at 9:50 PM

TAKE ACTION: Fix the FCC!

Net neutrality’s been caught in the crossfire. We need to fill the FCC to make progress!   John, Gridlock and lobbyist smear campaigns have stalled net neutrality for over three years. Tomorrow, hearings begin for Anna Gomez, the nominee to fill the final …

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  Ese, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

June 15, 2023 at 8:45 PM

CFPB Data Brokers Comments Deadline Extended!

Don't miss out on this chance to stop data brokers.   Hi John, The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has extended the deadline for public feedback on how the data broker industry collects and sells consumer information.1 Send a comment to the CFP…

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  Sarah Phillips at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

May 31, 2023 at 3:44 PM

Our hub site is live. Help it spread

We’re making it easy to fight the Bad Internet Bills. Help us fan the flames   Hey John, I wanted to update you on the fight against some of the worst internet bills we’ve ever seen: bills that would break online encryption, censor tons of critical content,…

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  Lia, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

May 26, 2023 at 4:53 PM

REMINDER: You're invited to our generative AI x human rights salon on May 30

Amnesty International and Fight for the Future are hosting a conversation on generative AI. Join us!   John, Our next Emerging Tech for Activists salon is coming up on Tuesday, May 30, 2023 at 1pm ET / 10am PT. This salon will focus on Generative AI and cr…

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  Sarah Philips, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

May 24, 2023 at 10:07 PM

Four awful internet bills. One website to end them all.

We're done playing whack-a-mole.   Hi, Let’s be honest– the number of bad internet bills being considered by Congress and across state houses right now is daunting.1 Seemingly every day, another bill attacking end-to-end encryption or enabling censorship o…

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  Ese, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

May 23, 2023 at 10:34 PM

Tell the CFPB: My personal health information should always be protected

These data traffickers are selling health records for as little as $0.20. Write to the CFPB to stop them NOW   Hi John, The more we find out about data broker practices, the more angry we are about what these companies are getting away with. Did you know t…

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  Leila, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

May 22, 2023 at 9:54 PM

Tell Slack to stop endangering abortion seekers

Sign the letter: Slack has to improve its user privacy and safety features immediately.   John, Slack has failed to implement common-sense features that protect user privacy and safety, such as end-to-end encryption, blocking and reporting, which could ha…

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  Lia, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

May 18, 2023 at 11:51 PM

You're invited! Join our generative AI x human rights salon on May 18

Amnesty International and Fight for the Future are hosting a conversation on generative AI. Join us!   John, Our next Emerging Tech for Activists salon is coming up on Tuesday, May 30, 2023 at 1pm ET / 10am PT. This salon will focus on Generative AI and cr…

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  Evan at Fight for the Future · [email protected]

May 11, 2023 at 4:13 PM

EARN IT’s back (with a posse)

Congress is using a divide-and-conquer strategy to undermine our digital rights. We’re fighting back   John, I’ll get right to it: we’re up against a firehose of bad bills. There’s the RESTRICT Act, a TikTok-banning, privacy-violating nightmare.1 There’s E…

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  Leila, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

May 9, 2023 at 4:39 PM

Google lied

Take action: Sign the petition calling on Google to immediately stop collecting and retaining location data.   John, Google is still collecting and retaining location data about where people go — including data on people visiting abortion clinics that cou…

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  Ese, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

May 3, 2023 at 1:32 AM

stop data brokers in 3 easy steps

Act now to get your data away from the lawless traffickers.   Hi John, Data brokers make money by giving your information to whoever will pay for it—law enforcement, government, corporate entities or even other private individuals. The Consumer Financial P…

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  Sarah Philips, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

April 26, 2023 at 7:39 PM

Tell Lizzo: Stop supporting a bill that would hurt LGBTQ+ kids

KOSA isn’t what it looks like.   John, Lizzo has been roped into supporting the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), despite strong opposition from dozens of human rights, LGBTQ+, and civil rights organizations, like the ACLU and GLAAD. [1]  We need your help t…

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  Sarah, Fight for the Future · [email protected]

April 20, 2023 at 4:56 PM

Stop silencing young people. No more social media bans.

Utah’s become the town in Footloose.   John Utah’s government is trying to restrict teenagers from using the internet freely by instituting a curfew and giving parents complete control over their kids’ social media accounts. [1] Lawmakers touted mental he…

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