Science Fundraising for Diego Gómez, grad student who faced criminal charges for sharing a scientific paper Cory Doctorow

charity Charitable Giving Guide 2019 Boing Boing

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

tabloids Princess Diana’s killer found (yet again) and Epstein scandal blackmail, in this week’s dubious tabloids. Peter Sheridan

trump Attorney General William Barr wants to backdoor Facebook's WhatsApp Xeni Jardin

crime Your phone is a crimewave in your pocket, and it's all the fault of greedy carriers and complicit regulators Cory Doctorow

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

surveillance When you take a commercial genetic test, you opt your whole family into warrantless state genetic surveillance Cory Doctorow

politics Read the full text of the Mueller report here, as redacted by Barr Xeni Jardin

Technology Facebook says it never sells your data but these internal documents show exactly how much they value your data in dollars Xeni Jardin

picks China uses DNA tech to spy on people. Yale geneticist and a U.S. biotech helped. Xeni Jardin

charity Charitable Giving Guide 2018 Boing Boing

surveillance Here's the secret details of 200 cities' license-plate tracking programs Cory Doctorow

infosec Candidate/election-runner Brian Kemp's hacking accusation is a new, absurd low Cory Doctorow

terrorist symps Milo Yiannopoulos says on Instagram that it's "disgusting and sad" that pipe bombs didn't kill intended victims Mark Frauenfelder

web theory China has perfected the internet control playbook and now it's exporting it to the world Cory Doctorow

fake news Royal twins, Robert Blake’s murder confession, and the secret to long life, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

law Cops routinely unlock phones with corpses' fingers Cory Doctorow

News Trump Justice Dept. to sue California over 'sanctuary city' policies to protect undocumented Xeni Jardin

News Facebook harmed America and is ‘living, breathing crime scene’ over 2016 U.S. election, insiders say Xeni Jardin