facial recognition I tried to access my secret consumer data. Their facial recognition software told me to smile. Thom Dunn
police Chicago PD's predictive policing tool has been shut down after 8 years of catastrophically bad results Cory Doctorow
Business Prasad's Law: there's always enough health spending to concentrate wealth, never enough to diffuse it Cory Doctorow
california California's housing bubble is spilling over into poor and exurban neighborhoods, creating waves of crises Cory Doctorow
health American health care's life-destroying "surprise bills" are the fault of local, private-equity monopolies Cory Doctorow
Games Gamers propose punishing Blizzard for its anti-Hong Kong partisanship by flooding it with GDPR requests Cory Doctorow
china Thousands of elderly Hong Kongers march in solidarity with young human rights activists Cory Doctorow
china Hong Kong's beleaguered chief exec says the extradition bill is "dead" but won't make it official Cory Doctorow
china Hong Kong protests continue to mount, and popular sentiment is with the protesters Cory Doctorow
health Prosecutors and federal judges collaborate with corporations to seal evidence of public safety risks, sentencing hundreds of thousands of Americans to death Cory Doctorow
law The Antitrust Case Against Facebook: a turning point in the debate over Big Tech and monopoly Cory Doctorow
class war Striking West Virginia teachers won swift and decisive victory; Oakland next? Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Artist Nan Goldin leads protests at the Guggenheim and the Met over their reputation-laundering of the Sacklers' opioid epidemic fortunes Cory Doctorow
twitter A megathread of dirty industry secrets that you'll be glad you know even as you wish you didn't Cory Doctorow
law In a huge win for open data, Congress passes the Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary Government Data Act Cory Doctorow
corruption Using data-science to evaluate whether Xi Jinping's anti-corruption sweeps were really about consolidating power Cory Doctorow
