Restore The 4th MN @rt4mn@social.rt4mn.org

The Audio from our panel yesterday on Drones and Aerial Surveillance has been published!
https://watch.rt4mn.org/w/6DqmrgqXYEdP1z6Y49KRDx

Please call your Rep. TODAY (ideally, right now; the vote is this afternoon/evening), and ask them to vote YES on amendment #100, requiring warrants for FBI searches of NSA data!

House switchboard: (202) 224-3121

Petition from friends at EFF:

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-close-the-warrantless-backdoor-to-spy-on-communications

We must face up to the dangers of surveillance technology: https://www.startribune.com/we-must-face-up-to-the-dangers-of-surveillance-technology/600080165/

Only two days to go for our spring fundraising drive! Grassroots activism takes time and resources, please donate if you can! https://donate.rt4.mn

55 organizations and more than 20 experts urge the EU and the US to ban Surveillance-Based Advertising https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/06/banning-surveillance-based-advertising.html

Less then a week left until the end of our fundraising campaign and we are ~$4,400 short of our goal. we need your support! https://donate.rt4.mn

Today has been a busy day, Hennepin County is holding its public hearing on the counties drone use policies at 1:30. You can read our comments here: https://rt4.mn/?p=796

Target supporters of @torproject? Not on our watch: RT4MN joins with 21 organizations to to tell PayPal and its subsidiary Venmo to shape up its policies on account freezes and closures: https://rt4.mn/?p=830

On June 15th Hennepin County has a public hearing on their updated Drone Polices. But currently only accepting prerecorded comments between 10-10:30 am

We encourage you to call in! You can learn more and sign up for a reminder message here: https://rt4.mn/uav/

Check out some of the perks we're offering to donors. You can use some of the same infrastructure our activist members use, if you donate a certain amount! Limited time offer! 🔥 https://donate.rt4.mn

Help us and the Safety Not Surveillance coalition launch our efforts to ban FRT in St. Paul. Join the https://twitter.com/TCIAMN
for a screening of Coded Bias on May 13th, and a community convo + breakout session on May 14th. https://rt4.mn/codedbias/

Streaming Minnesota Omnibus Public Safety Bill Conference Committee discussion.
May include some educational / wry commentary.
https://watch.rt4mn.org/videos/watch/57a2c0b9-544a-42f0-a67c-b518e2fea10b

This afternoon at 6pm CT join our friends at Cryptoparty Ann Arbor for an action planning workshop on banning facial recognition!
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtcOGvrTgoGNOL-iP20w4zigUyS9oessDE

Help us rein in the police state! Restore the Fourth Minnesota has been essential in getting important legislation passed, including Minneapolis' recent ban on face recognition tech. Donate today and get your funds matched!
https://rt4.mn/donate/

There is a good chance at least one of those hundred apps you downloaded and then forgot about is selling your location data to the Feds. The Fourth Amendment requires the government to get a Warrent when it wants this info, Tell Congress the #4thAmendmentIsNotForSale https://cloud.rt4.mn/index.php/apps/forms/zYHAAWPCpSm8wF5T

If you would like to sign the petition without giving your data to action network, I put together a copy on our self hosted #nextcloud server: https://cloud.rt4.mn/index.php/apps/forms/zYHAAWPCpSm8wF5T

A loophole in the law allows the federal government to legally purchase personal data from data brokers *without a warrant* It's insane, they are buying their way around our civil rights. Tell congress #4thAmendmentIsNotForSale

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-congress-pass-the-4th-amendment-is-not-for-sale-act/