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creepy Spanish football app turns users into unwitting surveillance operatives Seamus Bellamy

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fake news Prince Charles’ love child, Jack Ruby’s faked murder, and Jennifer Aniston’s shattered world, in this week’s tabloids Peter Sheridan

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books Charles Stross's "Dark State": transdimensional, nuclear-tipped mutually assured destruction by way of a first-rate spy novel Cory Doctorow

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apple Wolfenstein: 30+ years of killing Nazis Jason Weisberger

surveillance West coast jurisdictions advance community oversight of police surveillance Shahid Buttar

spooks Australia announces plan to ban working cryptography at home and in the US, UK, New Zealand, and Canada Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Top Secret: New World Order: Merle M. Rasmussen reboots his 1980 RPG classic Jayson Elliot