mobile Meitu's anime makeover app is a permission-grabbing privacy disaster Cory Doctorow

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law The FCC helped create the Stingray problem, now it needs to fix it Cory Doctorow

happy mutants I have found a secret tunnel that runs underneath the phone companies and emerges in paradise Cory Doctorow

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Gadgets Leaked Stingray manual shows how easy warrantless mass surveillance can be! Cory Doctorow

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law Thai telcoms regulator wants tourists to use location-tracking SIMs Cory Doctorow