privacy UK surveillance bill condemned by a Parliamentary committee, for the third time Cory Doctorow
politics Google cracks down on The Federalist & ZeroHedge for violating race-related content policies, may permanently suspend access to Google Ads revenue Xeni Jardin
Gadgets The bundle of 11 award-winning apps will straighten out your Mac in minutes. Boing Boing's Shop
Technology North Dakota's COVID-19 contact tracing app leaks location data to Foursquare and a Google Ads ID: Report Xeni Jardin
coronavirus County sheriffs claim that prisoners sleeping head-to-toe count as being "six feet apart" for coronavirus safety Thom Dunn
Gadgets This productivity bundle features nine Mac apps that’ll absolutely change how you work Boing Boing's Shop
happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz
surveillance Amazon used "security" to sell Ring doorbells, then blamed customers when hackers broke into them Cooper Quintin and Bill Budington
politics Large, diverse coalition of civil society groups tell the US, UK and Australian governments not to ban working encryption Cory Doctorow
authoritarianism Cops and spooks all over the world rely on a junk-science "walking polygraph" method to steer their investigation Cory Doctorow
security China's new cybersecurity rules ban foreign companies from using VPNs to phone home Cory Doctorow
Games Gamers propose punishing Blizzard for its anti-Hong Kong partisanship by flooding it with GDPR requests Cory Doctorow
