privacy Calgary malls caught secretly using facial recognition to characterise shoppers' age and gender Cory Doctorow
Business DOJ charges Huawei and CFO Meng Wanzhou with racketeering, conspiracy to steal IP Xeni Jardin
Copyfight Three years after the W3C approved a DRM standard, it's no longer possible to make a functional indie browser Cory Doctorow
security China's new cybersecurity rules ban foreign companies from using VPNs to phone home 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
jeffrey epstein Asking for pre-trial release, Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers say he has 'spotless 14-year record of walking the straight and narrow' Xeni Jardin
surveillance When you take a commercial genetic test, you opt your whole family into warrantless state genetic surveillance Cory Doctorow
News Microsoft takes down MS Celeb facial recognition database, 10 million+ pics of ~100,000 faces, maybe yours, scraped under Creative Commons Xeni Jardin
surveillance Empirical analysis of behavioral advertising finds that surveillance makes ads only 4% more profitable for media companies Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Los Angeles! Come see me at Exposition Park library tonight talking about Big Tech, monopolies, mind control and the right of technological self-determination Cory Doctorow
AI Ever, an "unlimited photo storage app," secretly fed its users' photos to a face-recognition system pitched to military customers UPDATE Cory Doctorow
surveillance capitalism Stop & Shop strike convinces 75% of loyal customers to take business elsewhere Cory Doctorow
