Senate kills wiretap expansion budget amendments bills (May 25, 2018)
Thanks to your calls and emails and those of many others, the Massachusetts Senate killed all three wiretap expansion bills some senators were…
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Congress trying to expand copyright on sound recordings (May 21, 2018)
Congress is considering S.2823 and H.3301, which would extend some cherry-picked parts of federal copyright to cover sound recordings made between 1923 and 1972. It would force…
Community MeshNet making progress, needs your help (May 18, 2018)
A huge congratulations to everyone who helped get the Senate to vote to overturn the FCC’s termination of Net Neutrality. We hope the…
Senators sneaking state surveillance power expansion in budget. Tell them no! (May 18, 2018)
Massachusetts Senators are trying to sneak into the budget unprecedented new state surveillance powers for prosecutors. We stopped them in November, and we need…
2018 Pirate Conference Survey (April 27, 2018)
It is time to plan our party conference. We would appreciate your feedback on how we should structure the next conference, when and…
Community MeshNet Hardware Hackathon Saturday (April 25, 2018)
Mass. MeshNet will hold a hardware hackathon this Saturday, April 28th, 1-3pm. It will be at Industry Lab, 288 Norfolk St, Cambridge. There…
Somerville Cryptoparty is Today (April 25, 2018)
The Somerville Cryptoparty is today, April 25th. It starts at 6pm and ends by 9pm. It will be at The Sprouts, 339R Summer…
Pirate News Don’t Fear the Dark Web Video Up (April 24, 2018)
We posted our latest Pirate News video: Don’t Fear the Dark Web. We talk about fears of the Dark Web and why you…
Protect yourself from the Equifax Hack (April 2, 2018)
Equifax was hacked and lost information, including social security numbers, contact information and driver’s license details, for 148 million customers, most in the…
The Senate votes to censor the net (March 20, 2018)
Recently, the US House approved the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act. The Senate’s cloture vote passed overwhelmingly Monday with only Wyden and Paul voting…