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Sex Safer sex now means wearing a mask, says Canada's Chief Public Health Officer David Pescovitz

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Science Sewage could reveal true scope of coronavirus outbreak, scientists say Xeni Jardin

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Business China is using big data to track people with coronavirus Xeni Jardin

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security Massive trove of Russian spy-agency docs hacked from private sector contractor and passed onto media Cory Doctorow

Business Equifax settles with FTC, CFPB, states, and consumer class actions for $700m Cory Doctorow

Business Interoperability: Fix the internet, not the tech companies Cory Doctorow

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picks Venezuela military coup? Guns fired at Maduro protesters, Internet blocked, Guaidó with soldiers claims ‘final phase’ Xeni Jardin

web theory Open dataset of 1.78b links from the public web, 2016-2019 Cory Doctorow

law EFF's roadmap for a 21st Century antitrust doctrine Cory Doctorow

health Small number of Facebook Pages did 46% of top 10,000 posts for or against vaccines Xeni Jardin

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security Bug in reservation system used by 140+ international airlines exposes passenger data and allows for manipulation Cory Doctorow

privacy Electric vehicle makers serving up customer location data to China on a silver platter Seamus Bellamy