Do we smell onions🧅🧅?
Congrats on your .onion service Reddit 🎉💜
Ensuring anonymous access to your users is a way to help guarantee freedom of expression and access to information for people around the world.

reddit.com/r/redditsecuri…

Less than a month before the World Cup, and the Qatari gov is arresting LGBTQ folks, beating them, and locking them up in underground prisons.

Are they going to do the same thing for LGBTQ players? Or is that treatment reserved just for their own people?

washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/…

The next time you are inclined to do a DNA test for fun, think about how your data will be used.

#BREAKING SCOOP: TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance planned to use the TikTok app to track the physical location of specific American citizens, according to materials reviewed by Forbes. trib.al/xR8aTSS

Today is Global Encryption Day! Encryption keeps us safe online and it makes the privacy Tor provides possible. Without encryption, our online lives can be hacked, shared with law enforcement, or even accessed by creepy company employees. 🔐blog.torproject.org/global-encrypt…

Russia Still Using Israeli Tech to Hack Detainees’ Cellphones haaretz.com/israel-news/se…

- riding a bike / scooter
- dancing / singing
- watching football
- traveling
- using social media
- walking a dog
- kissing in public
- being 🏳️‍🌈
- believing in & doing whatever YOU desire

... Are punishable offenses for many in Iran.

#MahsaAmini
#IranRevoIution
#OpIran

Me watching the flurry of #ShareTheMicInCyber tweets and LinkedIn posts!

Happy #ShareTheMicInCyber Day!!

I hope you all are participating and/or following along to learn about your colleagues!

🚨This is why you should *never* reuse the same password across multiple websites🚨

📢 Friends in NY: Cool event happening TODAY at 7 pm at Strand Book Store!

Join Elias Jahshan | الياس جهشان & Mona Eltahawy for the US launch of the This Arab Is Queer anthology.

🎟 Claim your free tickets (or paid tickets that'll land you a signed copy) here: strandbooks.com/events/event54…

Some news is going around about the IFF. Can it be?

Use Signal! Signal is end-to-end encrypted, and does not collect any metadata (who you're talking to, who is in a group, time, etc.).

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I am very much looking forward to welcome hundreds of digital rights advocates in #Beirut for almost 100 session and a full program with different activities in mid Nov. Check out the program below and you can still register to attend!

PROGRAM OUT🎉

We’re happy to finally share with you the sessions taking place at #BreadandNet 2022!

Check out this year’s most prominent topics and the brilliant speakers who will be joining us here in Beirut.

breadandnet.org/en/conference-…

I got to speak at AAAS yesterday with Nanjala Nyabola Steven Feldstein Chris Meserole on the rise of digital repression and the pervasiveness of surveillance tools around the world, moderated by Ishan K. Sharma. Thanks again for hosting us AAAS.

Infuriating: One day after competing without headscarf at Asian Climbing Competition, #Iran ’s Elnaz Rekabi has gone missing, phone confiscated, IranWire reports that she is being flown to Evin prison. Cruel doesn’t even begin to describe it:

'the most moral army in the world'