transparency How the Trump administration is putting public records under threat, so history may never know the awful things they did Thom Dunn

facebook Facebook makes 'Boogaloo' groups advocating US civil war harder to find, after arrest of participants plotting violence Xeni Jardin

politics Healthcare providers facing criminal inquiries got coronavirus stimulus checks from Trump Xeni Jardin

politics UK to empower media regulator Ofcom to regulate internet, remove 'harmful' content Xeni Jardin

fbi The FBI doesn't need Apple to give it a backdoor to encryption, because it already has all the access it needs Thom Dunn

eff ICANN needs to ask more questions about the sale of .ORG Mitch Stoltz

corruption Citing the Panama Papers, Elizabeth Warren proposes sweeping anti-financial-secrecy rules Cory Doctorow

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

censorship Online freedom of expression hits a ten-year low Cory Doctorow

web theory Freedom House: Thanks to social media, internet freedom is down for the the ninth straight year Cory Doctorow

elections Two years ago, Juli Briskman was fired for flipping off the Trump motorcade; now she's been elected as a Virginia county supervisor Cory Doctorow

guns Seattle authorities used "Red Flag" gun laws to disarm a Neo-Nazi Thom Dunn

Business Apple told TV Plus showrunners to avoid plots that might upset Chinese officials Cory Doctorow

twitter Twitter bans more psyops accounts: China, UAE, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Spain, and Ecuador Xeni Jardin

racism Facebook claims to be taking white supremacist violence more seriously, LMAO Xeni Jardin

law Creating a "coercion resistant" communications system Cory Doctorow

crowdfunding Crowdfunding the "grassroots first responders" helping in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian Cory Doctorow

christ what an asshole Robert Bork is the architect of the inequality crisis Cory Doctorow

law Judge orders the State of Georgia to be prepared for pen-and-paper balloting by March 2020 Cory Doctorow

security You have the right to remain encrypted Albert Fox Cahn & Ayyan Zubair