[noncoml]

Federal agents taking photos of your face while you are minding your own business, to upload them and compare them against a database of “citizens” is quite a privacy concern in my books

[nickff]

And to demonstrate their devotion to the cause, the EFF will take a day off from advocating against these behaviours? This makes no sense to me; why should a watchdog participate in a strike like this?

[csoups14]

They're trying to call attention to it. This thread is one example of how taking that action is helping to accomplish that task.

[bobwaycott]

Solidarity.

[1970-01-01]

All I can come up with is virtue signaling. Seems like their backlog work is low and they are making a strategic choice to try and get a funding boost by attending the protests (their message says nothing about this. It doesn't say much of anything, actually).