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<font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">Have
you missed Techno-Activism Third Mondays? So have we! Join us at
EFF HQ this coming Monday, May 16, to learn about a statewide
campaign seeking greater transparency into how local police use
surveillance tech, and also how a new proposed law could twist
the legacy of Prince to support the corporate content industries
– something that Prince railed against in songs like "Jughead."</font></font>
<p>
<p><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt"
size="2">EFF
activist and investigative researcher </font></font><font
face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><b>Dave
Maass</b></font></font><font face="Calibri, serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">
will share a debrief from a recent "California Surveillance
Sweep." Grassroots supporters joined EFF in scouring the
websites of hundreds of law enforcement agencies around the
country
to ensure they have privacy and usage policies for Automated
License
Plate Readers and Cell-site Simulators, as required by new
state
laws. Having completed round one, we're currently preparing
the next
phase and invite you to be a part of it. </font></font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt"
size="2">In
addition, EFF's Director of Copyright Activism, </font></font><font
face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><b>Parker
Higgins</b></font></font><font face="Calibri, serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">,
will summarize a series of public roundtable discussions
hosted by
the U.S. Copyright Office here in San Francisco this Friday.
He'll
also discuss a handful of state-level efforts to ratchet up
</font></font><font face="Calibri, serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">the
power</font></font><font face="Calibri, serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">
</font></font><font face="Calibri, serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">of
rightsholders to constrain</font></font><!-- 'holder … over' sounds weird, maybe 'of' instead? --><font
face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">
speech, including the </font></font><font face="Calibri,
serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">recently
proposed</font></font><!-- We're cool because we're so topical! --><font
face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">
and </font></font><font face="Calibri, serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">dubious
"PRINCE</font></font><!-- I can honestly not believe that this is a backronym – can we get away with calling it the P.R.I.N.C.E act? --><font
face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">
Act," a broad Minnesota proposal that ironically co-opts the
</font></font><font face="Calibri, serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">late</font></font><!-- Might be better to say 'late' because putting law proposal and 'passed' in the same sentence is confusing. --><font
face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">
musician's name and personality in a nominal effort to
prevent such
co-opting.</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt"
size="2">Date:
May 16, 2016<br>
Time:
6:00-8:00pm</font></font><br>
<font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt"
size="2">Location:
EFF, 815 Eddy Street, SF</font></font> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><font
face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">More
info: </font></font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><font
face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">[1]:
The lyrics to "Jughead," by Prince:
<a href="http://www.songlyrics.com/prince/jughead-lyrics/">http://www.songlyrics.com/prince/jughead-lyrics/</a></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><font
face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">[2]:
Background on the </font></font><font face="Calibri, serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">California
S</font></font><font face="Calibri, serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">urveillance
</font></font><font face="Calibri, serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">S</font></font><font
face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">weep:</font></font><font
face="Courier, serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">
</font></font><a
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/license-plate-readers-exposed-how-public-safety-agencies-responded-massive"><font
face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/here-are-79-policies-california-surveillance-tech-where-are-other-90">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/here-are-79-policies-california-surveillance-tech-where-are-other-90</a></font></font></a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><font
face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">[3]:
</font></font><font face="Calibri, serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">This
week's </font></font><font face="Calibri, serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">Copyright
Office roundtable:
<a
href="https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-copyright-office-roundtable-thursday-and-friday-san-francisco"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-copyright-office-roundtable-thursday-and-friday-san-francisco">https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-copyright-office-roundtable-thursday-and-friday-san-francisco</a></a></font></font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt"
size="2"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2">------------------</font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt"
size="2"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"></font></font>What
is this again? Techno-Activism Third Mondays (TA3M) is an
informal
meetup to connect activists and technologists who are
interested in
the challenges of surveillance and censorship, and anyone
interested
in free and open technology.</font></font>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><font
face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">Find
out more: <a href="https://ta3m.org/pages/about-ta3m">https://ta3m.org/pages/about-ta3m</a>
</font></font>
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<p><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt"
size="2">Want
to receive these TA3M-SF updates regularly? Join our mailing
list at:
<a href="https://lists.eff.org/mailman/listinfo/ta3m-sf">https://lists.eff.org/mailman/listinfo/ta3m-sf</a></font></font></p>
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Shahid Buttar
Director of Grassroots Advocacy
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:shahid@eff.org">shahid@eff.org</a>
415 436 9333 x. 171
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