law The UK's Data Protection Bill doesn't protect immigrants; help the Open Rights Group raise £30,000 for a court challenge Cory Doctorow
Business Personal data of 8,000 Economic Injury Disaster Loan applicants may have been shared with others Xeni Jardin
Business More reporting links Clearview AI to Trump-aligned racists, neo-Nazis, and alt-right trolls Xeni Jardin
Gadgets These earplugs are engineered to save your hearing without messing with your music Boing Boing's Shop
Technology Clearview AI clients: Best Buy, Walmart, ICE, DOJ, FBI, 2,200+ companies and law enforcement agencies Xeni Jardin
transparency How the Trump administration is putting public records under threat, so history may never know the awful things they did Thom Dunn
surveillance Amazon used "security" to sell Ring doorbells, then blamed customers when hackers broke into them Cooper Quintin and Bill Budington
Business Mint: late-stage adversarial interoperability demonstrates what we had (and what we lost) Cory Doctorow
Business A sweeping new tech bill from Silicon Valley Democrats promises privacy, interoperability, and protection from algorithmic discrimination and manipulation Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Wyden's "Mind Your Own Business Act" would force online services to respect Do Not Track Cory Doctorow
security China's new cybersecurity rules ban foreign companies from using VPNs to phone home Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism For the first time ever, taxes on the 400 richest Americans were lower than taxes on everyone else Cory Doctorow
security In Cambridge Analytica clean-up, Facebook says it killed 'Tens of Thousands' of apps Xeni Jardin
class war Uber general counsel threatens California: pass a law that makes drivers into employees and we'll spend $60m on a ballot initiative to overturn it Cory Doctorow
privacy Majority of period-tracking app share incredibly sensitive data with Facebook and bottom-feeding analytics companies Cory Doctorow
