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Student journalists fight Trump’s anti-speech deportations

Caitlin Vogus
Freedom of the Press Foundation
Published on 10/1/2025

It’s not every day a student newspaper takes on the federal government. But that’s exactly what The Stanford Daily is doing. Backed by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, the Daily sued Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of...

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Privacy Harm Is Harm

by Adam Schwartz
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Published on 10/1/2025

Every day, corporations track our movements through license plate scanners, building detailed profiles of where we go, when we go there, and who we visit. When they do this to us in violation of data privacy laws, we’ve suffered a real harm—period. W...

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❌ How Meta Is Censoring Abortion | EFFector 37.13

by Christian Romero
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Published on 10/1/2025

It's spooky season—but while jump scares may get your heart racing, catching up on digital rights news shouldn't! Our EFFector newsletter has got you covered with easy, bite-sized updates to keep you up-to-date. In this issue, we spotlight new ALPR-e...

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The UK Is Still Trying to Backdoor Encryption for Apple Users

by Thorin Klosowski
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Published on 10/1/2025

The Financial Times reports that the U.K. is once again demanding that Apple create a backdoor into its encrypted backup services. The only change since the last time they demanded this is that the order is allegedly limited to only apply to British...

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Journalists secretly offered cash for social media posts

JOHN McEVOY
Declassified UK
Published on 10/1/2025

Earlier this summer, a journalist named Amun Bains received an unusual message on TikTok. It was from an account named Good News Britain, which said it was working with a group called The Amplifiers to build “a network of digital producers countering...

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Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security

by Thorin Klosowski, Lena Cohen, Christian Romero, Hayley Tsukayama, Bill Budington, Rindala Alajaji, Yael Grauer, Paige Collings
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Published on 10/1/2025

Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a time it makes the process of protecting your privacy much easier. This month we’re going to do just that...

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