race TSA admits that its pornoscanners flag Black women and others with curly hair for humiliating, invasive searches Cory Doctorow
facebook Leaked confidential memo reveals Facebook program to identify and target "insecure" kids Cory Doctorow
trumpism US towns that pandered to anti-immigrant sentiment had to raise taxes and borrow to cover the millions in losses Cory Doctorow
trumpism US Border Agents are requiring returning Muslim-Americans to disclose social media information Cory Doctorow
politics George Floyd Justice In Policing Act, Democrats' police reform bill, passes in House & heads to Senate Xeni Jardin
Technology IBM to exit facial recognition business, opposes use of AI technology for mass surveillance Xeni Jardin
Karen alert! White venture capitalist sees black men in shared office building gym, calls 911 Mark Frauenfelder
politics Most U.S. states now share the addresses of people with COVID-19 with first responders Xeni Jardin
Business Australia sues Facebook, says Cambridge Analytica scandal violated privacy of over 300,000 Australians Xeni Jardin
politics In leaked audio, Michael Bloomberg defends racial profiling: "throw them up against the wall" Rob Beschizza
tabloids Predator priests, Game of Thrones, and why Italians don’t use Viagra, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
police Chicago PD's predictive policing tool has been shut down after 8 years of catastrophically bad results Cory Doctorow
books The New Yorker's profile of William Gibson: "Droll, chilled out, and scarily articulate" Cory Doctorow
Games Gamers propose punishing Blizzard for its anti-Hong Kong partisanship by flooding it with GDPR requests Cory Doctorow
