Copyfight As the EU Copyright Directive was approved, Germany admitted it requires copyright filters, putting it on a collision course with the EU-Canada trade deal Cory Doctorow

facial recognition A toilet with facial recognition for your butthole Thom Dunn

Gadgets These 20 headphone offers should help bring peace and quiet to the home office Boing Boing's Shop

health care disaster After a 2-hour wait in emergency room, a 25-year-old woman leaves to find help elsewhere and dies Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz

Copyfight Americans should definitely be worried about the EU's new copyright rules Cory Doctorow

law Tiktok took less than a day to settle parents' lawsuit over spying on their kids Cory Doctorow

Technology Microsoft hires former AG Eric Holder to audit facial recognition tech used on West Bank Xeni Jardin

corruption Elizabeth Warren proposes a 4-year ban on government officials going to work for "market dominant" companies Cory Doctorow

law London Metropolitan Police Service bans Extinction Rebellion from entering the city Seamus Bellamy

elections Elizabeth Warren's banking proposals are designed to demolish the private equity sector and force finance to serve the people Cory Doctorow

Business Equifax settles with FTC, CFPB, states, and consumer class actions for $700m Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The Canadian government has released the surprisingly sensible results of its extensive, year-long review of copyright law Michael Geist

russia U.S. intercepts Russian bombers and fighter jets off Alaska coast Xeni Jardin

christ what an asshole Frontier receives $283.4m/year in taxpayer money, neglects network, rips off customers — and Trump's FCC won't investigate Cory Doctorow

health People with diabetes are scouring the internet for a discontinued insulin pump that can be reprogrammed as an "artificial pancreas" Cory Doctorow

privacy Electric vehicle makers serving up customer location data to China on a silver platter Seamus Bellamy

Business Coalition of small cable operators calls for antitrust investigation into Comcast (Trump agrees) Cory Doctorow

picks WWE finds itself between a rock and a Saud place Gina Loukareas

trump Trump sends 1,000 immigrants to Mojave Desert prison, staff say it's unsafe & predict 'detainee deaths' Xeni Jardin