china Chinese citizens will have to submit to a face scan in order to get a new phone number Seamus Bellamy

privacy Microsoft contractors are listening to your Skype conversations Seamus Bellamy

privacy Apple's contractors also listening to private conversations Seamus Bellamy

amazon Amazon's being greasy about Alexa user data. Again. Seamus Bellamy

turkey Turkish Intelligence developed a smartphone apps that lets its citizens rat each other out Seamus Bellamy

google Google changed the settings on Android phones without their owners' permission Seamus Bellamy

picks Les Moonves' wife Julie Chen borrows the Camille Cosby playbook Gina Loukareas

surveillance TSA "Quiet Skies" surveillance program targets innocent U.S. citizens Seamus Bellamy

biometrics Canadian mall caught collecting facial recognition data on the sly Seamus Bellamy

Science Creepy new spy camera is so small it could be hiding anywhere Seamus Bellamy

big brother Today: '1984' nationwide movie screening to protest current politics Carla Sinclair

corruption The Snoopers Charter gives these 48 organisations unlimited, secret access to all UK browsing history Cory Doctorow

tabloids Jeffrey Epstein’s prison confession, the world’s most dangerous woman, and the end of the world, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

MeidasTouch On Trump's tax returns, "Supreme Loser" video tells Trump, "You lost. Bigly." Carla Sinclair

Gadgets These Smart Soccer and Basketballs are making sports training possible in the stay at home era Boing Boing's Shop

tabloids America set to be nuked, anarchy in the US, and the men who knew too much, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

trailers The new trailer for season 2 of DOOM PATROL brings the SeX-Men to HBO Max Thom Dunn

occupy Seattle activists have established a 6-block autonomous zone around an abandoned police station Thom Dunn

Cryptozoology That time Davy Crockett met Bigfoot David Pescovitz