Electronic Frontier Foundation

17 Sep 2024

SFPD May Have Illegally Used Drones To Combat Crime… Ironic.

San Francisco Police Department is seeking retroactive approval for the drones they purchased illegally, after a policy expert warned them not to rush the purchase before the March 5 election.

Abraham Woodliff - Bay Area Memelord 0
08 Aug 2018

The Government is Spying on You & this Law Could Help End It

Our new Tech Column was made possible by the fine folks at Mozilla Firefox.  The nonprofit Mozilla Foundation believes the Internet must always remain a global public resource that is open and accessible to all.  And that’s why we love Firefox. By Shahid Buttar We live in a country so rhetorically

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap 0
08 Oct 2024

The November 2024 BAS Voter Guide

A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But

BAS Editorial Team 0
26 Apr 2018

Shahid Buttar: Is Congress ripe for a renaissance?

There is no simple way to describe Shahid Buttar. He’s the son of Muslim refugees, a civil rights lawyer, an activist, a grassroots organizer, a DJ, a spoken word artist, a writer, a musician and music producer, among other things. Running as a candidate for San Francisco’s 12th District is

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30 Nov 2017

What’s Happening with Net Neutrality, Why You Should Care, and What You Can Do About It

By Amul Kalia Take a look at the image below of AT&T’s mobile data packages in Mexico. Everything seems normal until you get about halfway down the image, and see that at a certain price range, some popular social media apps—Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Messenger allow for unlimited usage, exempt from

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