surveillance Surveillance is the new blooming onion at Outback Steakhouse Thom Dunn

algorithmic bureaucracy New York Times writer is shocked to see how much a social trust scoring system knows about her Mark Frauenfelder

Business Amazon to enforce social distancing in warehouses with AI surveillance software 'Distance Assistant' Xeni Jardin

crime Trail of empty pill bottles led cops to Florida robbery suspects Xeni Jardin

security Schneier: "It's really too late to secure 5G networks" Cory Doctorow

politics Large, diverse coalition of civil society groups tell the US, UK and Australian governments not to ban working encryption Cory Doctorow

Business Behind the One-Way Mirror: EFF's "deep dive into corporate surveillance" Cory Doctorow

machine learning Networked authoritarianism may contain the seeds of its own undoing Cory Doctorow

elections When Republicans say "How will you pay for Medicare for All?" Democrats should answer: "Mexico will pay for it" Cory Doctorow

microsoft Microsoft’s Cortana is sleeping with the fishes Seamus Bellamy

privacy Toronto approves Google's surveillance city, despite leaks revealing Orwellian plans Cory Doctorow

toronto Leaked document reveals that Sidewalk Labs' Toronto plans for private taxation, private roads, charter schools, corporate cops and judges, and punishment for people who choose privacy Cory Doctorow

google Indigenous elder on Sidewalk Labs's Toronto consultation: "like being given blankets and gun powder and whisky to trade for our participation" Cory Doctorow

facial recognition We killed facial recognition at music festivals: next, we kill it everywhere Cory Doctorow

security China's new cybersecurity rules ban foreign companies from using VPNs to phone home Cory Doctorow

infosec After banning working cryptography and raiding whistleblowers, Australia's spies ban speakers from national infosec conference Cory Doctorow

privacy Civil rights groups call for a stop to Amazon's doorbell surveillance partnerships with cops Cory Doctorow

apple Apple bans an app because Hong Kong protesters might use it to avoid the murderous, out of control police Cory Doctorow

Japan Tokyo Listening – an interview with author Lorraine Plourde Roger Park

happy mutants William Gibson, danah boyd and Oakland Privacy will all receive this year's EFF's Pioneer Award Cory Doctorow