Safety Life in prison plus 150 years for monster who secretly filmed kids in their bedrooms Seamus Bellamy
turkey Turkish Intelligence developed a smartphone apps that lets its citizens rat each other out Seamus Bellamy
Technology IBM to exit facial recognition business, opposes use of AI technology for mass surveillance Xeni Jardin
Business FTC orders Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft to provide details on prior acquisitions of small companies Xeni Jardin
mass surveillance Garnet Hertz's "Experiments in Surveillance Capitalism: Device for Calling the Department of Homeland Security" Gareth Branwyn
happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz
privacy AI Now's annual report: stop doing "emotion detection"; stop "socially sensitive" facial recognition; make AI research diverse and representative — and more Cory Doctorow
politics Large, diverse coalition of civil society groups tell the US, UK and Australian governments not to ban working encryption Cory Doctorow
canada Sidewalk Labs' quiet plan for Canada's banks to manage a national digital ID for health care and housing Lilian Radovac
