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The extension of Amazon's moratorium is a major win for racial justice, curbing police powers, and privacy — but we won’t stop fighting until all people are protected.

As states move rapidly to adopt digital identity systems, we need to stop and think about what that means for our privacy rights.

Social media companies often get content moderation wrong — both because of their vague and sweeping rules, and because they make mistakes when applying those rules, often through blunt automated detection systems. Perfect content moderation may be impossible, but the major platforms can do better.

This piece is part of a collection of stories from The Breaking Point Project

A nationwide attempt to censor discussions of race in the classroom is underway. These bills don’t just set back progress in addressing systemic issues, they also rob young people of an inclusive education and blatantly suppress speech about race.

What we know for certain is that, unless the Biden administration acts decisively to address the detention problem at the heart of our immigration system, the countless human rights and civil rights abuses we have already witnessed will continue.

If states and cities rush into forcing remote employees to return to the office without confronting the ongoing realities of the pandemic, they could cause new setbacks to workplace equality that will take decades to overcome.

Our new report documents the critical need to repeal 1033, which allows the federal government to equip local police with military gear.

Reform of the 1033 program, which arms local police with military equipment and weapons, is not enough.