class war Not robots: youth unemployment caused by late retirement, driven by pension precarity Cory Doctorow

tabloids Meghan runs off with Princess Diana’s jewels, Prince Andrew caught fleeing, and Ron Jeremy’s wood, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

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

surveillance Ring doorbell app packed with third-party trackers Bill Budington

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security Penetration tester releases proof-of-concept code for hijacking smart buttplugs Cory Doctorow

privacy Interoperability and Privacy: Squaring the Circle Cory Doctorow

security Group sex dating app has "the worst security for any dating app" Cory Doctorow

Old school In 1943, the chairman of the NY Fed backed Modern Monetary Theory: "Taxes for Revenue Are Obsolete" Cory Doctorow

uk UK ISP Association, spies, censorship organsation jointly condemn Mozilla for supporting secure DNS because it breaks UK internet censorship rules Cory Doctorow

law Germany demands an end to working cryptography Cory Doctorow

law The Antitrust Case Against Facebook: a turning point in the debate over Big Tech and monopoly Cory Doctorow

libertarianism "Ayn Rand is a Dick" – excerpt from a new book by Mike Monteiro Mark Frauenfelder

github Rise of the Surveillance Scooters? Albert Fox Cahn

health After promising health care execs that Medicare for All was dead, Pelosi's team plans toothless pharma deal Cory Doctorow

trump Trump's properties routinely employed (and abused) undocumented Latinx workers, including dozens from a single Costa Rican town Cory Doctorow

Business Facebook de-platforms 4 Myanmar armed groups. Military behind Rohingya abuse didn't like them either. Xeni Jardin

trump Trump chose a thin-skinned, blowhard ignoramus as ambassador to Germany, and now no one will talk to him except Nazis Cory Doctorow