Author: Jason Kelley

Former EFF Activism Director’s New Book, Transaction Denied, Explores What Happens When Financial Companies Act like Censors

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A U.S. citizen who teaches Persian poetry classes online is suddenly unable to receive payments or access funds when his account is flagged and frozen by Paypal and its subsidiary Venmo. A Muslim city councilwoman in New York City has a Venmo payment blocked because she uses the name of a Bangladeshi restaurant in the […]

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Admiring Our Heroes for International Women’s Day: Celebrating Women Who Have Received EFF Awards 

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For the last hundred years, women have had pivotal and far too often unsung roles in building and shaping the technology that we now use every day. Many have heard of Ada Lovelace’s contributions to computer programming, but far fewer know Mary Allen Wilkes, a prominent modern programmer who wrote much of the software for […]

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