Happy first birthday, #DataRescueProject (@datarescueproject.org)!
https://www.datarescueproject.org/a-year-in-data-rescue/
"In a single year, we have rescued over 2500 datasets from over 90 government agencies. This work was supported by over 900 volunteers."
#Censorship #Data #DefendResearch #OpenData #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
Bravo to the Spanish Supreme Court for its Sept 2025 decision establishing four important principles: "[1] Access to source code can be needed to verify automated government decisions;
[2] “Intellectual property rights” do not automatically block transparency; [3] Security concerns must be balanced against democratic accountability; and [4] Transparency is especially critical for systems affecting social rights."
https://civio.app.box.com/s/2gcrxy4mkpzg49yqkmuaj9z7c44jl7ta
h/t #FSFE (@fsfe) for this article about it.
https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260205-01.html
The DSA Human Rights Alliance has published a set of principles calling for more inclusive enforcement of the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA). As a member organization, 7amleh contributed to drafting and developing these principles.
Read the full principles, available in English, German, and Spanish:
https://www.eff.org/issues/principles-human-rights-centred-application-digital-services-act-global-perspective
🚨 The Snowflake network is currently overloaded and we need more Snowflake proxies.
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#foss #privacy #tor #censorship #iran
"Trump’s GOP Makeover is Almost Complete."
https://www.wakeuptopolitics.com/p/trumps-gop-makeover-is-almost-complete
PS: One problem is that too few #Republicans in Congress have the courage to break with #Trump even when they despise him in private. But behind that lies a structural problem. Those who do break with Trump leave office.
Congrats to "HOW’S THE PLAY GOING?" by Noel David Taylor, an Honorable Mention in the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🏅
An absurd comedy with the main character lost in time, disjointed in settings & confused by their surroundings, mirroring that strange moment when you realize you haven’t been paying attention to the film at all.
Full film ➡️ https://archive.org/details/hows_the_play
Notepad++ publishes a blog post saying they caught a probably-Chinese state actor hijacking their product in an attack against highly-selective targets that began last June: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/
Planning to film ICE? Wired has a guide for that: https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-film-ice/
With Encrypt It Already, we’re pushing on tech companies to deliver stronger privacy protections to their users by enabling and expanding the use of end-to-end encryption across their products or services. https://www.encryptitalready.org
#Trump's numbers plummet during his first year in office.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2026/01/29/confidence-in-trump-dips-and-fewer-now-say-they-support-his-policies-and-plans/
The Electronic Frontier Foundation stands with the people of Minneapolis and with all of the communities impacted by the ongoing campaign of ICE and CBP violence. EFF will be closed Friday, Jan. 30 as part of the national shutdown. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/eff-close-friday-solidarity-national-shutdown
🇮🇷 Update: Brief returns of internet access are driving spikes in Snowflake usage. Please help us run more proxies if you can. ❄️ snowflake.torproject.org
The easiest ways to run Snowflake is by using Tor Browser, Orbot, or installing the browser add on in your current browser. Extra capacity helps people in Iran stay connected when the network comes back online.
This song is very relatable. Even if you don't work at the warehouse.
The Ojibwe word of the day to learn is "ICE OUT"
Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.
The presumption that free software is sufficient or necessary to ensure all software you depend on is trustworthy is simultaneously naive and ignorant of what software is capable of. The only realistic way to develop trust in software is to trust the people who write it, and development processes associated with free software make that trust easier.