We helped the UC Berkeley Cybersecurity Clinic to organize risk assessments for mutual aid groups.
Now, here’s the report with digital security recs for orgs + for projects that want to build mutual aid tools:
NO RING FOR ICE 🎃
If you’re headed out trick or treating, you could also educate neighbors with Ring doorbells using our door tag!
‼️ ICYMI: Amazon Ring announced a partnership with the notorious surveillance tech company Flock, which was recently exposed for secretly sharing camera data w/ ICE & law enforcement investigating people who travel for abortion care.
It’s an act of solidarity with our vulnerable neighbors to ditch Ring altogether but for now, please spread the word and cut those cameras OFF!
No RING FOR ICE 🧊 https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/ring-equals-ice/
TEACH-IN alert 🛠️!! Tomorrow at 7ET we’re joining Step Up Louisiana , Sassi South
& other NOLA community voices united in the fight against racist tech to discuss what it means to build safe communities that reject the lie of surveillance = safety.
NEW: Our latest in @TeenVogue on the key ways top Democrats like are continuing to enable Trump’s anti-LGBTQ+ tech agenda.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/some-democrats-are-helping-the-trump-admins-anti-lgbtq-tech-agenda
Yes- and with the spread of mandatory online ID checks, this is only going to get worse!
Big Tech app store censorship bolsters government surveillance efforts & puts real people in danger, setting a terrible precedent when they should really be focused on resisting authoritarianism & protecting users' rights.
TELL THEM 👉 fftf.link/stopappcensorship
Calling all artists & musicians: 🔈 🎶 🎨 There’s a mass movement of people just like you around the globe that are pushing the music industry to divest from genocide & fossil fuels- we’re calling on you to spread the word & take the pledge!
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day: Right now hundreds of artists are withdrawing their labor & refusing to participate in major festivals or events as KKR & its subsidiaries facilitate egregious human rights abuses against indigenous people.
Spread the word:
fftf.link/noart4genocide
Our Campaigns & Communications Director @liaholland sat down with @taylorlorenz
to discuss political attacks against VPNs & how we’re fighting back.
Watch the full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoXafCNjl54
HUGE win! Big thanks to the many tech workers and organizers who made this happen 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Today’s the VPN defense day of action! @fight’s very own @liaholland tells @techradar: “ it’s important to make lawmakers aware that, if they come for this technology, they're gonna be facing an uphill battle against the whole internet."