privacy Toronto approves Google's surveillance city, despite leaks revealing Orwellian plans Cory Doctorow
eu EU expert panel calls for a ban on AI-based risk-scoring and limits on mass surveillance Cory Doctorow
Business Patronscan wants cities to require bars to scan your ID with its service so it can maintain a secret, unaccountable blacklist Cory Doctorow
china Chinese AI traffic cam mistook a bus ad for a human and publicly shamed the CEO it depicted for jaywalking Cory Doctorow
apple Apple's fine-print reveals a secret program to spy on Iphone users and generate "trust scores" Cory Doctorow
china China's pervasive "social credit" scheme is still in development, but already profoundly shaping public behavior Cory Doctorow
china Chinese jaywalkers are identified and shamed by facial recognition, and now they'll get warnings over text message Cory Doctorow
surveillance It could happen here: How China's social credit system demonstrates the future of social control in smart cities Cory Doctorow
education Millionaire dilettantes' "education reform" have failed, but teacher-driven, evidence-supported education works miracles Cory Doctorow
happy mutants America's Fiber Future: Susan Crawford on how America's wired future is slipping away Cory Doctorow
News Maria Butina plea hearing set for Thursday, her spy boss Torshin missing, Putin unhappy Xeni Jardin
facebook Facebook will subject all of its users to "trustworthiness scores," similar to China's Citizen Scores Cory Doctorow
china China's mass surveillance and pervasive social controls are based on a rocket scientist's advocacy for "systems thinking" Cory Doctorow
privacy Happy Data Privacy Day! A turning point for anonymity, privacy, and the tools that deliver them Gabriella Coleman
surveillance Pentagon mass surveillance slurped up the world's social media traffic; then they dumped it on a publicly accessible Amazon cloud server Cory Doctorow
Civlib China's "citizen scores" used to blacklist 6.7m people from using high-speed rail or flying Cory Doctorow
