tabloids Adjectival overload, and the tabloids finally get one right, in this week’s round-up of the rags Peter Sheridan
racism Amazon secretly planned to use facial recognition and Ring doorbells to create neighborhood "watch lists" Cory Doctorow
security Ring: "We don't use facial recognition"; also Ring: "We have a head of facial recognition research" Cory Doctorow
crime Your phone is a crimewave in your pocket, and it's all the fault of greedy carriers and complicit regulators Cory Doctorow
amazon Prior to Amazon acquisition, Ring offered "swag" to customers who snitched on their neighbors Cory Doctorow
Business Amazon's staffing up a news vertical full of crime stories designed to scare you into buying a spying, snitching "smart" doorbell Cory Doctorow
race Law and Order Republicans have suddenly discovered the undeniable injustice of "flipped" prosecution witnesses Cory Doctorow
china China's pervasive "social credit" scheme is still in development, but already profoundly shaping public behavior Cory Doctorow
#blacklivesmatter This #PEANUTSBBQ t-shirt shows Marcie of 'The Peanuts' gang as the BBQ snitch Rusty Blazenhoff
fake news Hillary Clinton’s funeral plans, and how to be like Donald Trump, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
surveillance It could happen here: How China's social credit system demonstrates the future of social control in smart cities Cory Doctorow
surveillance German government giving up on digital reassembly of shredded Stasi files, resorting to manual puzzlings Cory Doctorow
