Wired just broke that facial recognition scanners were shut off for the duration of Taylor Swift’s wedding at Madison Square Garden, demonstrating the dynamics of privilege & power when it comes to who gets to opt out of mass surveillance.
Fight for the Future
We are artists, engineers, activists, and technologists fighting for a future where tech is a force for liberation— not oppression, and we’ve been behind the largest online protests in human history 😎
In the early years of the internet, the US government classified encryption software as munitions & heavily regulated it.
That is until
challenged this law on behalf of a PhD student, resulting in a ruling that established code as speech.
7/6/2026, 1 engagement
🙌🏽 GOOD NEWS: Police around the country have been working to get access to people's precise location through data brokers & other means but the Supreme Court decided your geolocation data is protected by the Fourth Amendment!
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/29/supreme-court-location-data-ruling-00979929
We all deserve access to the information we need to make important medical decisions & get the support we need to thrive. Right now our ability to do this online is under serious threat with efforts to repeal or amend the First Amendment of the Internet: Section 230 🤐😬
✨BOSTON ✨ We’re calling on local human rights and tech justice advocates to join us for an evening of drag queens and drinks!
Join us TOMORROW for a Pride Month happy hour at Dani’s Queer Bar! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Connect with Fight for the Future’s leadership, learn how you can get more involved, and have a drink on us!
RSVP:
Utah politicians are trying to ban VPNs while continuing to ignore the basics of how the internet they’re trying to regulate actually works. Exactly why we preemptively endorsed any lawsuit filed to hold them accountable.
5/26/2026, 3 engagements
The dangers of government censorship & surveillance are not hypothetical, and online ID check mandates WILL give these fascists another weapon to track us and silence us.
5/20/2026, 1 engagement
Heartbreaking that Minneapolis legal observer Renee Good died at the hands of ICE. It's clear that there was no threat when they shot her and the claims Trump is making on social media are total bullshit.
Renee could have been any of us.
1/8/2026, 1 engagement
New STICKERS just dropped!
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/donate?incentive=47&amount=25&tag=linksPage
Many folks on our team have creative practices and it’s such a gift that Fight has such a supportive environment that many staff interweave those endeavors in with our day to day work. It makes our output—from campaigns to design to social media content—stronger and more personal.
In 2023, our very own Hally Leigh Comics created a “Resist Surveillance Squirrel” design with the team, and since then we’ve added 4 more critter designs to the series. (In addition to creative-types, we also happen to identify with ungovernable animals.) These designs are available together in a sticker pack for the first time, including the newest design “Turn Off Ring Raccoons.”
The sticker pack is free with your $25 donation and comes with 5 high-quality stickers to make your laptop, phone case, or water bottle a bit spicier.
Plus, you’ll be contributing to the very worthy work Fight does to hold Big Tech and politicians accountable and support the communities who need it most.
The official pretext for ID check laws is the so-called “pornography epidemic,” a moral panic that right-wing reactionaries blame for everything from falling birth rates to youth depression.
But age-gating laws are about much more than restricting porn- Republican lawmakers are using the infrastructural power of the Internet to build a surveillance & censorship machine. Read the full paper here:
https://www.techpolicy.press/papers-please-the-republican-plan-to-wall-off-the-internet/
12/8/2025, 1 engagement
Day 3 of our week of action against online ID checks 🙌🏽 we’ll be hosting a live panel on LinkedIn today with
and other digital rights experts discussing the threat of online age + ID verification to the internet we love and the tools we can use to fight back.
Join us! FFTF.link/noidchecks
12/3/2025, 1 engagement
It’s Day 2 of our week of action against online ID checks + we need you to make some noise and call your reps letting them know censorship bills like KOSA + Online ID Checks are EXTREMELY unpopular!
Call Now +1 248-331-8665 or use our call tool: www.badinternetbills.com
NOW: Congress is holding a hearing on 19(!) kids safety bills and several would age-gate/censor the internet, particularly for LGBTQ youth.
Our policy counsel + members of our team are live-streaming analysis and reactions. Join us!
https://www.youtube.com/live/GwAAPmNa_0U?si=L3HLTc_OW7XgWScx
AMA on Online ID Checks is now live! Where the Redditors at?
Our policy counsel team will be answering questions about the dangers of online ID checks alongside policy experts at
Day 1: Week of Action to oppose Online ID Checks.
Creatives, researchers, journalists and extremely online folks- If you had to have your face scanned for every move you make online, how would that impact you?
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You shouldn’t have to present your ID, credit card info, or face to be scanned just to access your favorite sites, news, or games yet this is the growing reality for Internet users globally.
We need a firestorm to take down online ID checks for good-- so we planned one. Join us for a week of action!
Breakup Big Tech monopolies
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Amazing win today!
Proud of our colleagues and coalition partners in Oakland for ousting Flock, an invasive surveillance company, and blocking a $2 million dollar contract with the city.
Excited to see this is happening across the country!
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/11/19/oakland-rejects-flock-safety-cameras-surveillance/
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has drawn the ire of Democrats for years—but without it, decentralized mass protest would be near-impossible!
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:
“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. “
10/31/2025, 1 engagement
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/
10/30/2025, 1 engagement
‼️ 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
10/30/2025, 1 engagement
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.
10/28/2025, 3 engagements
With the spread of mandatory online ID checks, this is only going to get worse!
We’re campaigning to keep world governments from banning or blocking them. It’s not too late to take action:
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?
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day
Hundreds of artists are withdrawing their labor & refusing to participate in major festivals or events as KKR & its subsidiaries facilitate egregious human rights abuses against indigenous people.
Spread the word:
fftf.link/noart4genocide
10/13/2025, 1 engagement
Our Campaigns & Communications Director sat down with Taylor Lorenz to discuss political attacks against VPNs & how we’re fighting back.
Watch the full video:
HUGE win! Big thanks to the many tech workers and organizers who made this happen 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 but the fight isn’t over yet
Join us and take action today by signing and sharing this petition to global leaders: https://www.defendvpns.com
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Today’s the VPN defense day of action! Our Campaigns + Communications Director Lia Holland tells
“ it’s important to make lawmakers aware that, if they come for this technology, they're gonna be facing an uphill battle against the whole internet." ✊
9/25/2025, 1 engagement
Many politicians are scheming to lock down the Internet + increasingly turning their attention to VPNs, considering banning them. This will be disastrous for many people, especially those living under authoritarian regimes.
We're asking you to join us and make a stink about this before they go on the VPN attack for real.
9/24/2025, 2 engagements
This 😂😅 but also we built this tool to combat age verification /online id checks if you wanna check that out:
https://www.stoponlineidchecks.org
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8/29/2025, 1 engagement
Attending Dragoncon this year? We’ll see you there!
Catch our campaigner Sarah Phillips at one of these panels:
Payment processors don't have the right to censor content online. MasterCard + Visa need to back off + let these platforms host + promote games on their own terms.
Lawmakers are “taking a hard look” at VPNs after the total flop of the UK “age verification” rollout + we all know where that’s gonna lead—censorship fanatics are gonna try to bring the ban hammer down on VPNs.
Millions use VPNs to dodge surveillance + circumvent censorship.
Can you help us remind them what a terrible idea it is to destroy essential Internet safety infrastructure?
Sign the thing at www.DefendVPNs.com
8/8/2025, 3 engagements
BREAKING: New investigation exposes Microsoft for enabling surveillance + killing of Palestinians.
NEW: Facial recognition surveillance tech use is expanding rapidly at airport’s + this new report from our friends at Algorithmic justice league exposes TSA’s shady practices around opt-outs : ✔️Most travelers weren’t told face scans were optional ✔️Some felt pressured or confused ✔️Opting out wasn’t always straightforward.
More at #ComplyToFly → https://ajl.org/flyreport
Regular reminder that consumer credit scores are younger than cell phones 💗
Using FICO and mass, computerized consumer surveillance as a startpoint here. For a detailed history, read:
6/23/2025, 1 engagement
Journalists traveling to the U.S.
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6/22/2025, 1 engagement
🚨Over 180 million passwords for email, social media, health + government platforms were leaked this week. Change your passwords, make sure they’re alphanumeric, and turn on 2FA.
There’s a thing called the politician’s fallacy that explains a lot about congressional dysfunction. Here’s why this is especially tricky when it comes to tech + free speech:
The lawmakers assassinated in MN are not the first victims of murder enabled by the data broker industry. Many victims are women + marginalized people targeted by abusers or stalkers.
https://www.wired.com/story/minnesota-lawmaker-shootings-people-search-data-brokers/
Our Deputy Director, Evan Greer, spoke with Wired about simple, concrete steps protestors can take to make your communications, location + private information harder to access: https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-protest-safely-surveillance-digital-privacy/
WEDNESDAY @7pm ET We’re joining Media Justice, Muslims for Just Futures + other activists to discuss how Big Tech is supercharging the rising violence we’re seeing in free speech suppression and how to resist.
RSVP here to join: https://mediajustice.zoom.us/meeting/register/azQp-Ew7RceAq1k-_jg1tg#/registration
Join the Action Hour tomorrow to hear updates from tech workers + organizers on a range of efforts targeting Big Tech's contracts with apartheid Israel –– including a Google shareholder resolution that will be voted on this Friday –– and take action with us to hold these companies accountable:
https://www.bigtechfuelsgenocide.com
The FBI has re-upped a number of investigations claiming ‘potential public corruption’ without any apparent criminal violations or new evidence of federal statute violations- we've got some concerns. 🪡🧵
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/27/fbi-investigation-dobbs-leak-dc-pipe-bombs/
Many of you helped drive thousands of calls to lawmakers that helped defeat the nonprofit killer bill in the Fall AND in the budget package last week. We talked with Between the Lines' Counterpoint Radio about the ongoing threat
#humanrights #freepalestine
As #bigtech continues to supply tools that fuel Israel's genocide of Palestinians, they’re also signing new contracts with U.S. weapons manufacturers + profiting from the mass deportations & surveillance dragnets that are terrorizing communities everywhere: https://medium.com/@notechforapartheid/statement-on-google-clouds-collaboration-with-lockheed-martin-19cd460d22d3
#Microsoft + fired #Google employees join forces to disrupt Build conference calling out #bigtech for enabling the genocide of Palestinians.
https://www.theverge.com/news/669362/microsoft-employee-protest-build-conference-satya-nadella
We knew FCC Chair Benjamin Carr, co-author of # project2025, would use his perch to help billionaires + authoritarians while abandoning the agency’s actual mission of protecting the public interest.
We applaud FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez for calling him out 👏 https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/15/media/fcc-anna-gomez-rips-weaponized-agency-brendan-carr-trump
Unfortunately we're about to see the worst, repressive ways this legislation can be used. https://www.wired.com/story/take-it-down-act-law-passes/
NONPROFIT KILLER BILL UPDATE: It's complicated, but so far the chaos is working in our favor...
Here’s your digital rights download with highlights you might’ve missed this past week.
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Big Tech companies are aligned with the Trump administration, fueling mass deportations and arrests of political dissenters.
This and the way the Custom and Border Protection, or CBP, announced plans this week to use invasive facial recognition tech to scan the faces of travelers. We're witnessing a supercharge of the already sprawling network of surveillance deployed by both government agencies and private companies alike across the United States.
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‼️Language from the 2024 nonprofit killer bill was approved in House budget-reconciliation this morning 👎
We name some of the risks of this "terribly thought-out" legislation to vulnerable communities:
TODAY: Media Justice is hosting an event to recap their Youtube series on how Tech Broligarchs have entrenched their power.
https://mediajustice.zoom.us/webinar/register/9817386973911/WN_piTafZEaQ3CzljIl5wypbQ#/registration
WE NEED CALLS NOW! HR 9495, now known as Section 112209, if passed, would give the Trump administration unprecedented power in suppressing nonprofits, by allowing the administration the power to strip organizations of their tax exempt status!
Call 319-313-7674 https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/961dc4bdb7a3010056a0eb08803a49ce3ae4d229d9bc8eb7f86af99309f4a9ee/cbe2914e29a4079b25767731e898a31b7d565c4e2cde1466ff392c2b77557f08.webp
