Technology North Dakota's COVID-19 contact tracing app leaks location data to Foursquare and a Google Ads ID: Report Xeni Jardin
politics Mike Bloomberg created 'Hawkfish' tech firm working on his 2020 campaign, ex-Facebook CMO and ex-Foursquare CEO on board Xeni Jardin
trumpism Kleptocracy in America: Russian-style corruption, driven by global oligarchs, enabled by US elites Cory Doctorow
trump endgame VC Fred Wilson's prediction: we will have a different President of the United States by the end of 2019 Mark Frauenfelder
privacy Surveillance libraries in common smartphone apps have amassed dossiers on the minute-to-minute movements of 200 million+ Americans Cory Doctorow
Business Trump hotels, faced with massive declines in bookings, rebrand as "Scion Hotels" Cory Doctorow
net neutrality #Internetslowdown: FCC receives record-breaking 1.75M comments on Net Neutrality Cory Doctorow
censorship Northern Illinois University's terrible net policy censors political Wikipedia entries Cory Doctorow
fiction Bruce Sterling: "From Beyond the Coming Age of Networked Matter," a short story Bruce Sterling