Post #2876757

2023-01-03 17:39 UTC

@Mer__edith@mastodon.world Totally agree. One of the biggest orgnanizing challenges for privacy advocates is that we're very silo'ed. There are effective local coalitions against facial recognition and ShotSpotter, national privacy and civil liberties orgs, state-based groups like we have in Washington, companies like Signal and Mozilla ... we often work together on individual campaigns, but there's no coherent #privacy organizing strategy. 2023 would be a good year to change that!

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@gleemie@mastodon.sdf.org 2023-01-04 16:58

@jdp23@indieweb.social @Mer__edith@mastodon.world agreed. I didn't even know about the CA ID law. eff electronic frontier alliance is a network org that could be useful on coordinating and mobilizing.

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@gleemie@mastodon.sdf.org 2023-01-04 17:00

@jdp23@indieweb.social @Mer__edith@mastodon.world and here's a coalition of orgs against the earn it act, one of the kinds of laws Meredith hints at, we coordinated here at Twc San Diego: https://medium.com/tech-workers-coalition/against-the-earn-it-act-96b3f4d91284 It is hard work to keep this together and it's not clear to me that any of the words of paid staff were stepping into the work of keeping a coalition going. We did it as volunteers. Given the persistence of the policy threat, it would be nice if somebody was funding could help coordinate.

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