EFFecting Change: LGBTQ+ Solidarity Against the Tide of Surveillance
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is hosting a live panel focused on surveillance and censorship targeting LGBTQ+ communities, covering topics like safer online spaces, platform accountability, and the effect of government pressure on digital platforms. The event includes a Q&A and is aimed at activists, allies, and anyone following these issues.
Why this matters: LGBTQ+ people are not an abstract policy category. They are individuals whose location data, search history, private messages, and group memberships can be used against them — by governments, platforms, or anyone else with access. When political pressure mounts, platforms often quietly comply before any law requires it. That is how surveillance works in practice: not always through warrants, but through soft pressure and convenient data that already exists. Knowing how to build safer spaces and hold platforms accountable is not optional for communities that are actively being targeted.
Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity · General readers · Policy
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