Business EBGAP: Error Between Google and Privacy Sean O'Brien

Gadgets The Apple Watch just keeps getting better and you can grab one now for $20 off Boing Boing's Shop

security Watch: #FightCovid19 robot enforces Singapore social distance rules with 360º spy-cam Xeni Jardin

Business 'Cars now run on the new oil — your data.' Xeni Jardin

facebook 2019 was the year of voice assistant privacy dumpster fires Cory Doctorow

privacy Apple poses a false dichotomy between "privacy" and "competition" Cory Doctorow

china Hong Kong's #612strike uprising is alive to surveillance threats, but its countermeasures are woefully inadequate Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Amazon unveils a new Echo Dot surveillance device for children Cory Doctorow

Business Illinois almost passed a bill that banned devices that record you without your consent — and then Big Tech stepped in 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

privacy Police detective suspended for filming his junk with a body cam Seamus Bellamy

mistakes Park ruined by giant always-on TV screen Rob Beschizza

security A year later, giant Chinese security camera company's products are still a security dumpster-fire Cory Doctorow

privacy LG's G7 ThinQ smartphone looks like a great handset but it creeps me out Seamus Bellamy

happy mutants Security researchers can turn Alexa into a transcribing, always-on listening device Cory Doctorow

bandwidth A web magazine you can read only if you turn off your wifi Clive Thompson

Business Leaked presentation from AI snake-oil salesmen to AAA game company promises horrific, dystopian manipulation of players to drain their wallets Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Amazon's useless "transparency reports" won't disclose whether they're handing data from always-on Alexa mics to governments Cory Doctorow

Gadgets (Virtually) No one should ever own an Echo or any other "voice assistant" product Cory Doctorow

makers Check out some of Donald Bell's favorite tools Mark Frauenfelder