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National Security Letters force companies to hand over data like customer info, phone numbers, and purchase records—without judicial approval, and with a gag order.

Only a handful have ever been made public.

We sued—and learned about hundreds more.
nytimes.com/2019/09/20/us/…
NSLs typically come with gag orders stopping recipients from even publicly acknowledging they received one.

Congress ordered the FBI to make sure these gags aren't permanent.

But is the FBI doing its job?
Our lawsuit revealed it ended only a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands NSLs gags issued.

The FBI is falling short of its obligations to release NSL recipients from gag orders that are no longer necessary. gizmodo.com/fbi-served-sec…
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Today we’re celebrating the induction of Hedy Lamarr into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame! We’re delighted to see more recognition of Lamarr’s technical achievements, and thrilled to have supported her induction.

floridainvents.org/hedy-lamarr/ Image of face of hedy lamarr on the left, in black and white. On the right, text (in art deco font) that says her name, the years she lived, and
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Lamarr patented this Secret Communication System in 1942 with collaborator George Anthiel. The frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology would eventually become the basis for Bluetooth, GPS, and modern cellular networks. This is an image of a drawing for a patent. In the top left corner is a date— Aug 11, 1942. It consists of two figures—both drawings of many lines and circles connecting to one another. In the bottom right corner is Hedy Lamarr's name.
Lamarr is most well-known for her acting career, but she was more proud of her technological work than her films. Sadly, she only began to receive acknowledgments of this work late in life, but continued awards and efforts broaden awareness of her outstanding technical legacy.
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Technet, a group of technology CEOs, wants Congress to preempt the California Consumer Privacy Act. We disagree. This is a screenshot of the text of the press release. It is available in full at http://technet.org/press-release/technet-statement-on-the-california-consumer-privacy-act
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This past summer, Big Tech tried to weaken the California Consumer Privacy Act. They failed, thanks to the voices of thousands of Californians who stood up to protect privacy. eff.org/deeplinks/2019…
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In 2018, Californians fought back against big tech by passing the California Consumer Privacy Act.
But the @InternetAssn, a big tech trade group with members like Google and Facebook, wants to undermine our privacy by weakening this historic law. washingtonpost.com/technology/201…
The @InternetAssn’s misleading ads claim the CCPA hurts small businesses and jeopardizes access to websites, and we can only fix it by exempting surveillance-based adtech from strong privacy laws. They’re wrong.
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