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Abby (Liebeskind) Johnson

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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Eric Mill @konklone.com · 20/06/2026
If you love Wikipedia, take a look at this product job we've just opened to lead some of our most interesting work on keeping the place safe and authentic for humans: job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jo... This role will work directly with dedicated Wikipedians around the world. Think it over!
Wikimedia’s Product Safety and Integrity team is charged with keeping Wikipedia a stable and trustworthy place while  protecting its many readers and contributors. Our strategy is built around putting usable security principles into practice, bringing cutting-edge AI and machine learning techniques to bear on difficult problems, and close day-to-day working partnerships with some of the most dedicated and brilliant Wikipedians in the world.

We are hiring a lead product manager to join this team and help drive this strategy by overseeing a cross-functional product team of engineers, designers, data scientists, and others. Wikipedia’s unique community model, and our team’s focus on working with some of its most trusted members, means that this role will also work directly with key community groups and individuals to understand and respond to the reality on the ground.

This role is an opportunity to be at the center of a pivotal time for Wikipedia, as AI changes how people access knowledge, and presents new risks and opportunities in online safety and security.
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Jake Snow @snowjake.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
One more thing, and it's important. If you are in California and you hear from a platform (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, Google, Reddit, X) saying that the government has demanded information about you, you can reach out to the ACLU's intake line. www.aclunorcal.org/get-help/
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Need Legal Help? - ACLU of Northern California
Learn about your legal rights and get help with a legal matter.
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U.S. Press Freedom Tracker @pressfreedomtracker.us · 13/10/2025
If you are a journalist — or know one — who has been attacked, seriously threatened, denied access by a public official or targeted with a legal order in the course of reporting, let us know. You can now submit tips in English or Spanish. Email: tips@pressfreedomtracker.us
If you are a journalist — or know one — who has been attacked, seriously threatened, denied access by a public official or targeted with a legal order in the course of reporting, let us know. You can now submit tips in English or Spanish.

Email: tips@pressfreedomtracker.us
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/09/2025
It may be distasteful but it is not illegal to mock someone's death and it should not warrant arrest, ever. The 1st Amendment exists specifically to protect disfavored speech and what is happening now is one of the greatest threats to free speech in the United States.
A screenshot of a social media post from Greg Abbott. The text says: "This is what happened to the person who was mocking Charlie Kirk’s assassination at Texas Tech. FAFO." The attached image shows a young woman with long braids, wearing a patterned tank top and jeans, being handcuffed by two police officers in uniform. Her facial expression looks tense as she turns her head. Below, Abbott’s earlier post is quoted: "Definitely picked the wrong school to taunt the death of Charlie Kirk. Thanks Texas Tech." The post shows thousands of replies, retweets, and likes.
A screenshot of a social media post from Eric Daugherty. The text says: "🚨 UPDATE: It's being reported that this demon who danced on Charlie Kirk's grave has been expelled from Texas Tech. She said: 'f-ck y'all, yo homie dad!' They're finding out." Below is a still from a video showing a college campus walkway with students standing around. A woman with long hair, a backpack, and a tank top is at the center. On-screen text in the video reads: "Woke college student at Texas Tech mocks Charlie Kirk’s dath. 'Fck y’all... yo homie d*ad'. Make her famous." The post notes it was reshared from Gabriel and shows 3.5M views.
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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
FTC Chair Ferguson claims that moderating US content because of foreign laws “to appease a foreign power” might be unfair or deceptive. This claim is legally baseless. He's trying to reshape online speech in ways he prefers, which the First Amendment bars techfreedom.org/wp-content/u...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
New from 404 Media: Delta, United, American etc don't want you to know they sold your flight data to DHS. The country's airlines sell bulk names and flight itineraries to DHS to be searched without a warrant. Contract tells DHS to not reveal where this data came from www.404media.co/airlines-don...
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Airlines Don't Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
A contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 15/05/2025
In memoriam: Cryptome co-founder John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was one of the early, under-recognized heroes of the digital age.
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In Memoriam: John L. Young, Cryptome Co-Founder
John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was among the first people to see the need for an online library of official secrets, a place where the public could find out things that g...
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Democracy North Carolina @democracync.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Without a hearing, written opinion, or official signatures, this shadowy ruling ignores the state constitution and has cleared the way for newly-elected State Auditor Dave Boliek to flip the NC State Board of Elections and all 100 county boards from Democratic to Republican control #ncpol
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/04/2025
US sees surge in bills seeking criminal punishments for protected speech
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US sees surge in bills seeking criminal punishments for protected speech
Forty-one anti-protest bills in 22 states have been introduced since start of 2025, according to law tracker Anti-protest bills that seek to expand criminal punishments for constitutionally protected peaceful protests – especially targeting those speaking out on the US-backed war in Gaza and the climate crisis – have spiked since Trump’s inauguration. Forty-one new anti-protest bills across 22 states have been introduced since the start of the year – compared with a full-year total of 52 in 2024 and 26 in 2023, according to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) tracker. Continue reading...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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Trump's Attack on Lawyers and Law Firms Takes a Page Out of the Southern 1950s Playbook
American Authoritarians Fear the Uniquely American Power of Litigation
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/03/2025
As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law: “It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
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NH’s new ID requirements send some would-be voters home to grab passports, birth certificates
The law requires all new voters to show proof of their U.S. citizenship. For some, that meant making multiple trips to and from the polls before finally casting a ballot on Tuesday.
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Abby (Liebeskind) Johnson @abbydactyl.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
If you still have the option, make sure Advanced Data Protection is enabled on your account support.apple.com/en-us/108756
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How to turn on Advanced Data Protection for iCloud - Apple Support
Advanced Data Protection for iCloud offers our highest level of cloud data security and protects the majority of your iCloud data using end-to-end encryption.
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
In the world of privacy coverage, there has always been a central question of who is a greater threat to it: the government or corporate America. Now with DOGE, the two are merged into one: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...
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Struggle Over Americans’ Personal Data Plays Out Across the Government (Gift Article)
Employees from Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency are gaining access to vast amounts of information held by federal agencies, even as lawsuits try to stop them.
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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 16/02/2025
Government’s wins are often invisible: Systems that avoid plane crashes; alliances that avert war; surveillance that prevent pandemics. Government wins are often *the avoidance of loss.* So how do we tell the story of the destruction of government? The story of future losses *not* averted?
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Abby (Liebeskind) Johnson @abbydactyl.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
And the kicker - the USG recommended using E2EE to the extent possible after the Salt Typhoon “hacking spree”… “Officials in Canada, New Zealand and Australia endorsed the recommendations. Those in the United Kingdom did not.”
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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Confirming what @marisakabas.bsky.social had earlier today: The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received an order this week from DOJ, its primary funder: remove references to trans people in its public materials, in accordance to Trump's anti-trans EO. NCMEC is complying.
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DOJ orders child safety authority to comply with Trump's ‘gender ideology’ order
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said it would be removing all references to transgender people from its public materials.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Trump's freezing of all civil rights cases at the DOJ is not part of an anti-DEI agenda, but an anti-civil rights agenda. DOJ was *founded* to protect Black rights during Reconstruction. That this difference is unclear speaks to the success of conservative propagandists and the failures of liberals.
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Runa Sandvik @runasand.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I wrote a very timely introduction to digital security for journalists for @gijn.org last fall. This guidance may also apply to activists, lawyers, and anyone else doing at-risk work these days. gijn.org/resource/int...
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Introduction to Investigative Journalism: Digital Security
Digital security may seem a little daunting at first, but increased security will help investigative journalists build trust with — and protect — current and future sources.
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Nicole Ozer @nicoleozer.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
The surveillance systems that officials touted would keep us safe have become a major liability. Rights guaranteed by CA law cannot just be words on paper; they must also be lived reality. www.techpolicy.press/californias-.... New article w/ @mattcagle.bsky.social for @techpolicypress.bsky.social.
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California’s Surveillance Systems Have Once Again Become a Major Liability | TechPolicy.Press
Nicole A. Ozer and Matt Cagle write that the rights guaranteed by California law cannot just be words on paper; they must also be a lived reality.
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Abby (Liebeskind) Johnson @abbydactyl.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
How’s it going over here?
Dog gets way too close to the camera with a blazing sunset in the backgroundSelf satisfied dog poses, sitting in front of a sunset
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