privacy Department of Homeland Security wants to build a database to track journalists and their sources Seamus Bellamy
happy mutants The First Scarfolk Annual: a mysterious artifact from a curiously familiar eternal grimdark 1970s Cory Doctorow
Kids Educational spyware company to school boards: hire us to spy on your kids and we'll help you sabotage teachers' strikes Cory Doctorow
canada Critical essays (including mine) discuss Toronto's plan to let Google build a surveillance-based "smart city" along its waterfront 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
privacy Surveillance libraries in common smartphone apps have amassed dossiers on the minute-to-minute movements of 200 million+ Americans Cory Doctorow
Business The world is no longer willing to tolerate the plague of bullshit "agreements" Cory Doctorow
taylor swift Rob a bank in an effort to pitch woo at Taylor Swift and you're gonna have a bad day. Seamus Bellamy
facebook A tour of the manipulative, creepy bullshit Facebook pulls to stop you deleting your account Rob Beschizza
police New Orleans Police used predictive policing without telling the city's elected officials Seamus Bellamy
law Rancher takes feds to court over camera they placed on his property without permission Seamus Bellamy
trumpism Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband is pissed that his $50m house was barricaded by a bomb squad, called in to investigate a gift-wrapped box of horseshit that someone sent to Steve Mnuchin Cory Doctorow
