Do not scream into the void, lest journalists start calling you for void quotes.

Meta takes down some big Russian and Chinese covert influence campaigns.

Meta Newsroom

Raising Online Defenses Through Transparency and Collaboration

We're sharing a look into our defense strategy and the latest news on how we build it into our products.

Tale as old as time: hackers hack stalkerware company because stalkerware is low-quality crap. https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/26/brazil-webdetetive-spyware-deleted/?guccounter=1

Open Vallejo continues to do excellent work holding Vallejo's police department to account for years of abuse:

Open Vallejo

Vallejo police concealed violent deaths for years, Open Vallejo lawsuit reveals

All of the victims were Black. All of them were unarmed. Their names are Andrew Lamar Washington, Otis Edward McPeters, Charles Khristopher Gordon,...

It has come to my attention that some of you are very concerned about data brokers collecting your data, but are not familiar with the work of @npub1ymvk...8944 and the Big-Ass Data Broker Opt Out List. Please enjoy:

GitHub

GitHub - yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List

Contribute to yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List development by creating an account on GitHub.

If you see any issue and you're wondering why EFF hasn't spoken up about it: 1. It is not an EFF issue at all. 2. You just missed the blog post and/or press quotes. 3. We have had six meetings about it and now ten people are simultaneously working on a messy blog post trying to capture the nuance of our position.

Sometimes bad things happen to bad people and we are allowed to enjoy it, as a treat.

Maybe vomiting up your random half-assed ideas directly to millions of users is not the best way to run policy or product on the social media platform you paid $44 billion for. Who can say?

Elon's plan to get rid of the block button is both stupid and impulsive. He will come right up against the Google and Apple stores' TOS and then make up some face-saving reason why he never followed through.

Survivors often come to me for advice about speaking out against their abuser. Now there’s an excellent toolkit for that.

National Women's Law Center

Survivors Speaking Out: A Toolkit About Defamation Lawsuits and Other Retaliation by and for People Speaking Out About Sex-Based Harassment - National Women's Law Center

This toolkit was written to help survivors understand their rights, risks, and options when deciding whether to speak out and, if so, how to do it ...