Gadgets A company that makes spy-tech for cops threatened to sue Vice for publishing its sales literature (because Iran!) Cory Doctorow
surveillance Amazon's secret deals with cops gave corporate PR a veto over everything the cops said about their products Cory Doctorow
surveillance Amazon struck secret deals with local cops to get them to push surveillance-camera doorbells Cory Doctorow
health Prosecutors and federal judges collaborate with corporations to seal evidence of public safety risks, sentencing hundreds of thousands of Americans to death Cory Doctorow
law A mysterious nonprofit made millions suing companies to put California cancer warnings on coffee Cory Doctorow
google After retaliation against Googler Uprising organizers, a company-wide memo warns employees they can be fired for accessing "need to know" data Cory Doctorow
Business Big Tech's addiction to illegal, overreaching NDAs protects wage discrimination, sexual harassment, and other evils by "terrorizing" employees Cory Doctorow
corruption Public records requests reveal the elaborate shell-company secrecy that Google uses when seeking subsidies for data-centers Cory Doctorow
corruption Beyond GIGO: how "predictive policing" launders racism, corruption and bias to make them seem empirical Cory Doctorow
transparency Laramie County, Wyoming Sheriffs' department blocks public records requests for their prison phone monopoly deal Cory Doctorow
transparency For the first time, a US president has classified the legal justification for taking publicly acknowledged actions Cory Doctorow
History William Gibson on individual privacy, governmental secrecy and the future of history Cory Doctorow
security Microsoft sues US government for the right to tell you when the feds are reading your email Xeni Jardin
streisand effect UC Davis paid $175,000 or more to scrub police pepper spray incident from web searches Xeni Jardin
transparency Obama: 'Top Secret' could mean info that would endanger America, or random stuff you can Google Xeni Jardin
security FBI tells tech companies offering encryption to reconsider “their business model” Xeni Jardin
