These findings come at a time of unparalleled financial privacy loss in the era of Palantir + a supercharged surveillance state under fascism. In the words of Campaigns + Communications director Lia Holland of : "We need Signal for money, and we need it yesterday.”

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: https://cltc.berkeley.edu/publication/securing-mutual-aid-cybersecurity-practices-and-design-principles-for-financial-technology/

“Fight for the Future specifically highlights Flock's involvement in releasing surveillance footage to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has been escalating raids and deportation operations under the direction of the Trump administration. Flock has also provided data to law enforcement to assist in investigating people traveling out of state seeking abortion medical care. “ https://www.cnet.com/home/security/digital-rights-group-tells-amazon-ring-owners-to-turn-off-cameras-this-halloween/

NO RING FOR ICE 🎃 If you’re headed out trick or treating, you could also educate neighbors with Ring doorbells using our door tag! https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/ring-equals-ice/

‼️ 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 spread the word: fftf.link/RingEqualsICE

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. RSVP👉http://fftf.link/nola

With the spread of mandatory online ID checks, this is only going to get worse! https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/wisconsin-wants-to-force-all-adult-sites-to-block-vpns-with-a-new-age-verification-bill-heres-everything-we-know We’re campaigning to keep world governments from banning or blocking them. It’s not too late to take action: www.defendvpns.com Without big grants supporting this work, we need your help to power the inbox-stuffing, phone-melting wave of pressure required to stop VPN bans in their tracks. Can you donate today to help sustain the fight to Defend VPNs?