Gadgets Plungers are disgusting so the Toiletsaber is changing the toilet clearing game Boing Boing's Shop
Technology Clearview AI promises to cancel accounts that aren't law enforcement or government entities Xeni Jardin
Business More reporting links Clearview AI to Trump-aligned racists, neo-Nazis, and alt-right trolls Xeni Jardin
Technology Clearview AI clients: Best Buy, Walmart, ICE, DOJ, FBI, 2,200+ companies and law enforcement agencies Xeni Jardin
privacy The answer to the Clearview AI scandal is better privacy laws, not anti-scraping laws Cory Doctorow
politics Clearview AI founder linked to Trump world and Far-Right, NYPD denies facial recognition firm's boast that it helped catch terrorist suspect Xeni Jardin
Technology Twitter tells facial-recognition app maker to stop scraping photos, Clearview AI used by 600+ US law enforcement agencies Xeni Jardin
Business BLS to remove computers from data 'lockups,' chief denies it's aimed at Michael Bloomberg Xeni Jardin
Business Mint: late-stage adversarial interoperability demonstrates what we had (and what we lost) Cory Doctorow
futurism A timeline of (possible, fascinating) future events from a (wide) variety of perspectives Cory Doctorow
china Hong Kong's #612strike uprising is alive to surveillance threats, but its countermeasures are woefully inadequate Cory Doctorow
politics Secret emails show Facebook knew about Cambridge Analytica earlier than they've said, DC AG claims Xeni Jardin
security The most interesting thing about the "Thanksgiving Effect" study is what it tells us about the limits of data anonymization Cory Doctorow