politics Watch Serbia's president hold a weird virtual rally with supporters clapping on video stream Xeni Jardin
politics Justice Dept. drops case against Michael Flynn, Trump's first national security adviser Xeni Jardin
coronavirus Trump administration considers a centrally planned economy to deal with coronavirus Thom Dunn
authoritarianism TSA officer grabbed Native American woman's braids, snapped them and said "Giddy up!" Mark Frauenfelder
authoritarianism Political journalist Omoyele Sowore arrested and tortured under Nigeria's overbroad "cyberstalking" law Cindy Cohn
authoritarianism Cops and spooks all over the world rely on a junk-science "walking polygraph" method to steer their investigation Cory Doctorow
police Bill Barr's police speech proves the GOP doesn't actually care about "small government." Thom Dunn
racism Amazon secretly planned to use facial recognition and Ring doorbells to create neighborhood "watch lists" Cory Doctorow
surveillance #NothingButDragnet: EFF calls on @Shaq to stop endorsing police partnerships with Amazon's creepy, surveilling Ring doorbells Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Margaret Atwood's "The Testaments": a long-awaited Handmaid's Tale sequel fulfills its promise Cory Doctorow
china Chinese citizens will have to submit to a face scan in order to get a new phone number Seamus Bellamy
privacy Civil rights groups call for a stop to Amazon's doorbell surveillance partnerships with cops Cory Doctorow
corruption CBP officer refuses to allow American journalist into the country until he admits he writes "propaganda" Cory Doctorow
corruption Phoenix's police union has a secret deal with the department to purge dirty cops' disciplinary records Cory Doctorow
police Amazon's secret deals with local cops give them access to realtime 911 data for use in scary alerts sent to Ring owners Cory Doctorow
trump London police official warns journalists not to publish leaks on pain of imprisonment Cory Doctorow
corruption Detroit's police commissioner arrested at commissioners' meeting for demanding answers about secret meetings where facial recognition was planned Cory Doctorow
