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   Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 02:57:39 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

   It's Women's History Month! All March, we're highlighting women who've taken valuable steps for technology, privacy, security, and free expression for us all. We encourage you to learn more, get inspired by their accomplishments, and tell us about women in tech that you admire.

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     Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 02:57:39 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

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     Each a formidable researcher in her own right, Joy Buolamwini, Dr. Timnit Gebru, and Deborah Raji chose to accept 2020 EFF Awards together for exposing racial bias in AI. Their display of solidarity reminds you that ultimately we support each other to achieve important things. #womenshistorymonth

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     Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 02:57:39 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

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     Runa Sandvik is a digital privacy and security expert whose work focuses on journalists, human rights defenders, and other high-risk people. She has shared and further built her expertise at The New York Times, Freedom of the Press Foundation, and The Tor Project. #womenshistorymonth

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     Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 02:57:39 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

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     The DIY tech and maker movement owes a debt to engineer Limor "Ladyada" Fried, the founder of Adafruit Industries. She has helped ordinary people get hands-on with high tech tools, equipment, and electronics for 20 years. #womenshistorymonth

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     Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 01:56:01 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

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     Veteran security pro Window Snyder is CEO of Thistle Technologies, and was CSO at Square, Fastly, and Mozilla. She also had a major hand in security at Microsoft and Apple. Window defies many people's archetype of a hacker, yet still embodies all the skill, ambition, and ethos. #womenshistorymonth

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     Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 02:26:15 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

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     Kazakhstani computer programmer Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan founded Sci-Hub to provide free and unrestricted access to all scientific knowledge under the principle that access to information and knowledge is a human right. #womenshistorymonth

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     Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Mar-2025 00:48:45 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

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     Pam Samuelson, Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, is changing our understanding of digital copyright law, intellectual property, and information policy. Her work explores the challenges of information technologies for traditional legal regimes. #womenshistorymonth

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     Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Mar-2025 00:48:46 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

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     Kate Bertash works at the intersection of tech, privacy, art, and organizing. Whether at Digital Defense Fund providing tech security resources for the abortion rights movement, or Adversarial Fashion creating surveillance-defying apparel, Kate's working toward freedom online. #womenshistorymonth

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     Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Mar-2025 00:48:46 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

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     Meredith Whittaker brings e2e encrypted messaging to the masses as head of the Signal Foundation. A leader in digital rights, she was the woman behind AI Now at NYU, M-Lab, and Google Open Research (where she was an organizer of the infamous Google walkouts). #womenshistorymonth

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     Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Mar-2025 00:48:46 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

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     The Red Queen herself, Tarah Wheeler has made great strides in information security as a renowned industry executive, social scientist in the area of international conflict, author, and poker player. #womenshistorymonth

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     Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Mar-2025 00:48:47 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

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     danah boyd is a preeminent scholar whose evidence-driven approach has changed the way people think about our complex and nuanced relationship to technology. Her research as founder of Data & Society and beyond grounds debates on how tech affects adults and young people. #womenshistorymonth

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     Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Mar-2025 00:48:47 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

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     Net neutrality pioneer Gigi Sohn has long been a vocal advocate for the public interest in communications. Whether at the FCC, Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy, or as co-founder of Public Knowledge, Gigi has put technology users first. #womenshistorymonth

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     Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 02:21:46 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

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     Iconic computer scientist, mathematician & U.S. Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper worked on the first all-electronic digital computer, created the first implemented compiler (coining the term), and developed COBOL demonstrating that a programming language could use English words. 🪰 #womenshistorymonth

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     Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 02:21:47 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

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     Your ability to explore the world freely and privately has never been more important. Isabela Bagueros defends for your rights to privacy, free speech, and anonymity as Executive Director of the Tor Project and as a longtime advocate for the open source community. #womenshistorymonth

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     Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 02:21:47 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

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     Barbara Simons, computer scientist & former president of the Association for Computing Machinery, has been on a mission to ensure election security in our systems for over 20 years. It's never been more important for us to know that our votes are secure, verifiable, & counted. #womenshistorymonth

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     Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 02:21:47 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

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     Chelsea E. Manning is a network security expert, whistleblower, and former U.S. Army intelligence analyst whose disclosure of classified Iraq war documents exposed human rights abuses and corruption the government kept hidden from the public. #womenshistorymonth

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     Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 02:21:48 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

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     Digital artist Dr. Nettrice R. Gaskins is helping people understand the connections between remix culture, art, and tech. She's an advocate of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) fields whose work explores "techno-vernacular creativity" and Afrofuturism. #womenshistorymonth

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     Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 02:21:48 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

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     Lillian Schwartz was a pioneer in blending art and modern technology. Known for her pieces in collaboration with Bell Labs and a diverse body of work, she was referred to as a pixelist, a morpho dynamicist, and a technological fruit picker. #womenshistorymonth

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     Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 02:39:56 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

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     The digital rights movement continues blooming in Latin America thanks to leaders like Caroline Botero. A researcher, lecturer, and writer, she spent more than a decade defending freedom on the web as executive director of the Colombia-based Karisma Foundation. #womenshistorymonth

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     Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 02:39:56 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

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     Anita Borg is acclaimed for many technical achievements as a computer scientist, but she's also remembered for her vocal advocacy and network-building for women's representation in tech. Anita even founded the Institute for Women and Technology—which today bears her name. #womenshistorymonth

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     Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 02:39:56 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

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     The work that Danielle Blunt & Hacking//Hustling has done shows how protecting vulnerable communities from censorship and surveillance protects us all. #womenshistorymonth

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     Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 02:39:57 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

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     Technology is supposed to make the world more accessible, not reinforce inequities. Liz Henry's advocacy for people with disabilities & the open source software and hardware ecosystem show how important it is for you to have the power to adapt tech to your own needs. #womenshistorymonth

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     Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 02:39:57 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

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     Dr. Lorrie Cranor's work at universities, the FTC, and more runs the digital rights gamut, but she has a special focus on usable privacy and security. Our advanced tech can be powerful and democratizing tools for all people, but only if they're also accessible and safe. #womenshistorymonth

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     Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 02:39:57 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

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     Since the 1980s, Freada Klein has had eyes on race, gender, and sexual harassment in tech spaces. Her work has supported the movement for greater inclusion in STEM, and shows how a diverse workforce can also be a stronger one. #womenshistorymonth

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     Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 02:39:57 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

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     She co-invented spread spectrum broadcast technologies that were precursors to modern wireless communications. But she might be better known as Hollywood legend Hedy Lamarr. #womenshistorymonth

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     Lunduke (lunduke@linuxrocks.online)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 03:53:34 JST Lunduke

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     @eff This is, of course, simply incorrect.

     https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4993328/who-is-the-real-first-computer-programmer

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     Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 03:53:35 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

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     No list of women is technology is complete without Ada Lovelace. She was believed to have written the first algorithm read by a machine, making her one of the first computer programmers. The world celebrates her each year on the second Tuesday in October. #womenshistorymonth