surveillance What you need to know about police drone surveillance at protests against police brutality Thom Dunn

mass surveillance Garnet Hertz's "Experiments in Surveillance Capitalism: Device for Calling the Department of Homeland Security" Gareth Branwyn

books Ed Snowden says he'll stand trial and even go to prison in the USA if he can have a public trial and mount a public interest defense Cory Doctorow

privacy After Microsoft moves its servers back to the USA, German state's privacy commissioner advises schools not to use Office 365 Cory Doctorow

books The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy Matthew Potolsky

corruption UK cops are secretly harvesting all data from the phones and cloud accounts of suspects, victims and witnesses and insecurely storing it forever Cory Doctorow

mass surveillance Japanese Taxicab uses face recognition software to decide what kind of garbage to play on its seatback display Mark Frauenfelder

mass surveillance In this Twitter exchange, jetBlue explains to a passenger how it got a photo of her face — from the DHS Mark Frauenfelder

Technology Wyden to Trump: End NSA domestic phone spying program permanently. Xeni Jardin

nsa The NSA has reportedly stopped data-mining Americans' phone and SMS records Cory Doctorow

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

nsa Which windowless American buildings are secret AT&T/NSA listening posts? Cory Doctorow

law Supreme Court: no government location tracking without a warrant Cory Doctorow

creepy Spanish football app turns users into unwitting surveillance operatives Seamus Bellamy

Technology Cops use backdoored WhatsApp photo to extract fingerprints and convict user Andrea James

law The in-depth tale of Bylock, the Turkish messenger app whose 1×1 tracking GIF was the basis for tens of thousands of treason accusations Cory Doctorow

law Appeals Court: Britain's Snoopers Charter is illegal mass surveillance and must be urgently reformed Cory Doctorow

video For a few thousand bucks, Detroit police will give a business higher 911 priority Andrea James

surveillance Congressional Democrats have so little faith in Trump's leadership that they've awarded him the power to conduct limitless, warrantless mass surveillance of Americans Cory Doctorow

security When Justin Trudeau was in opposition, he voted for Canada's PATRIOT Act but promised to fix it; instead he's making it much, much worse Cory Doctorow