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

racism Amazon secretly planned to use facial recognition and Ring doorbells to create neighborhood "watch lists" Cory Doctorow

machine learning Networked authoritarianism may contain the seeds of its own undoing Cory Doctorow

law 10,000 people are calling for Congress to investigate Amazon Ring Cory Doctorow

Copyfight "Affordances": a new science fiction story that climbs the terrible technology adoption curve Cory Doctorow

surveillance Amazon's surveillance doorbell marketers help cops get warrantless access to video footage from peoples' homes Cory Doctorow

police Amazon's secret deals with local cops give them access to realtime 911 data for use in scary alerts sent to Ring owners Cory Doctorow

surveillance Amazon's secret deals with cops gave corporate PR a veto over everything the cops said about their products Cory Doctorow

facebook John Oliver on Facebook's role in fomenting genocide, pogroms and authoritarianism.: "a toilet" Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Here’s how to get certification-ready to work on Cisco networked systems Boing Boing's Shop

arizona Remembering the Awhatukee House of the Future, a "shining home of dreams" that became a $3 tourist trap Cory Doctorow

automotive Inventive students detach IoT car-immobilizers, use their SIMs to power free wifi hotspots Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Family puts Ring camera in children's room, discovers that hacker is watching their kids 24/7, taunting them through the speaker Cory Doctorow

Business Data leak exposes surveillance at Russia's top telecommunications firm Xeni Jardin

History Paleocomputing watch: Tech magazines cover the BBS scene Cory Doctorow

crime More than 20 Texas cities and towns have been taken hostage by ransomware Cory Doctorow

happy mutants William Gibson, danah boyd and Oakland Privacy will all receive this year's EFF's Pioneer Award Cory Doctorow

floss The Pegleg: an implanted, meshing, networked mass-storage device that you sew into your skin Cory Doctorow

Old school "IBM PC Compatible": how adversarial interoperability saved PCs from monopolization Cory Doctorow

crime Corruption is contagious: dirty cops make their partners dirty Cory Doctorow