Notices by Fight for the Future (fight@mastodon.fightforthefuture.org)

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/116726931773116453

A really good post worth sharing about the reality of age verification that’s beyond the simplistic idea that this is just like showing an id in person.

Oppose age verification legislation here:

https://www.stoponlineidchecks.org

@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.

https://www.wired.com/story/for-taylor-swift-madison-square-gardens-controversial-cameras-briefly-went-dark/

Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall & The Sphere are among the only concert halls in the U.S that use facial recognition surveillance. A small handful of gay bars in San Fransisco recently started using face scanning tech & have faced instant backlash.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/id-scanners-at-san-francisco-gay-bars/4105254/

Taylor & Travis made the right decision to flip the off switch at their wedding because facial recognition tech is DANGEROUS. We're asking them & other artists to pledge against playing at venues using this tech because it exposes many vulnerable fans. www.banfacialrecognition.com/venues/

🙌🏽 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

Why is facial recognition so dangerous for gay bars? 🤔

📋Venues that use facial recognition to scan & track their visitors are, fundamentally, building lists of gender, sexual minorities & their allies.

Today Lowe’s heard from their shareholders & from US in San Francisco today! Flock’s surveillance tech makes customers want to shop somewhere else & they should drop their contract & remove every single camera.
@IndivisibleSF
@securejustice

40+ tech and justice orgs demand lawmakers take swift action to stem the tide on ICE violence and the tech and data spending that help it spread!

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-01-19-40-tech-justice-orgs-call-to-defund-ice/

The best thing Congress can do to protect targeted communities is to BLOCK any DHS funding bill that includes money for ICE!

The second best thing Congress can do is to severely restrict what ICE can spend money on, including a complete moratorium on the purchase and use of surveillance tech.

We’re urging lawmakers to do everything within their power in order to block ICE’s reign of terror in our communities and halt the build out of surveillance tech infrastructure that will make it impossible for everyday people to do anything at all w/o Big Brother watching.

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.

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/live-updates/minneapolis-federal-agents-protesters-clash-portland-avenue/

Breaking: New bipartisan bill would make 2026 the year online protest organizing dies.
Dems and R’s alike have just indicated they plan to end the first amendment of the Internet next year. Our statement: https://fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-12-18-statement-2026-year-online-protest-dies/

TOMORROW: Congress is pushing through a package of bills which include an online ID check mandate that would fence off the internet & kill anonymity online.

Contact committee members that are considering these bills + make your opposition crystal clear using our call tool at

badinternetbills.com

“In the South.. these proposals mimic arguments that you see behind book bans & laws that criminalize gender-affirming health care & abortion information” out campaigner Sarah Phillips breaks down the battle against online ID checks for @WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/age-verification-is-sweeping-the-us-activists-are-fighting-back/

HUGE win! Big thanks to the many tech workers and organizers who made this happen 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/25/microsoft-blocks-israels-use-of-its-technology-in-mass-surveillance-of-palestinians

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 https://www.defendvpns.com

✈️ Some numbers from Algorithmic Justice League's recent report on passenger experiences with opting out of invasive biometric face-scans at the airport:

- 67% that requested to opt-out received negative treatment for doing so
-56% of people didn’t see opt-out info
-74% weren’t notified of TSA use of facial recognition
-99% weren't notified of their right to opt-out
- 87% shared concerns with facial recognition
- 33% were concerned with the handling of data

NEW: We talked to the @WashingtonPost about how KOSA (The Kids Online Safety Act) would give Trump the ability to censor LGBTQ+ content online simply by claiming it can harm children by making them ‘anxious’ or ‘depressed’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/24/kosa-lgbtq-transgender-wachowski-blackburn-coppa/

Mahmoud Khalil is free👏

But he should never have been detained in the first place.

“Dissent is not grounds for deportation.” - ACLU

https://theintercept.com/2025/06/20/mahmoud-khalil-homeland-security-investigations-ice-surveillance/

Democratic trifecta states CAN and MUST act fast to protect their citizens by passing comprehensive privacy protections that can serve as a shield, especially for the most vulnerable.

https://Fftf.link/demtrifecta