climate The DHS classes nonviolent environmental activists in the same "domestic terrorist" category as Dylan Roof and James Fields Cory Doctorow
Gadgets A company that makes spy-tech for cops threatened to sue Vice for publishing its sales literature (because Iran!) Cory Doctorow
foia McKinsey designed ICE's gulags, recommending minimal food, medical care and supervision Cory Doctorow
Kids Quiet Rooms: Illinois schools lead the nation in imprisoning very young, disabled children in isolation chambers Cory Doctorow
transparency Suppressed internal emails reveal that the IRS actively helped tax-prep giants suppress Free File Cory Doctorow
surveillance Amazon's secret deals with cops gave corporate PR a veto over everything the cops said about their products Cory Doctorow
Business Axon makes false statements to town that bought its police bodycams, threatens to tase their credit-rating if they cancel the contract Cory Doctorow
corruption The #ShellPapers: crowdsourcing analysis of all correspondence between Shell and the Dutch government Cory Doctorow
police Internal files reveal how US law enforcement classes anti-fascists as fascists, and actual fascists as "anti-anti-fascists" Cory Doctorow
transparency How the payday loan industry laundered policy by paying academics to write papers that supported its positions Cory Doctorow
corruption Public records requests reveal the elaborate shell-company secrecy that Google uses when seeking subsidies for data-centers Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Chasing down that list of potential Predpol customers reveals dozens of cities that have secretly experimented with "predictive policing" Cory Doctorow
foia More FBI follies: civil rights groups are "terrorists" and their victims are the KKK Cory Doctorow
gender The FBI invented a fictitious "abortion extremist" movement, then warned local cops about potential acts of domestic terror from it Cory Doctorow
trumpism In DHS tests, prototypes of Trump's chosen barrier posts were easily defeated by hacksaws Cory Doctorow
