web theory Your inbox is full of spyware-riddled emails that are both potentially very harmful to you and also very easy to disable Cory Doctorow
politics Clearview AI founder linked to Trump world and Far-Right, NYPD denies facial recognition firm's boast that it helped catch terrorist suspect Xeni Jardin
AI Peter Thiel claims AI is "Leninist" and "literally communist" in a sprawling speech for a think tank Thom Dunn
racism Amazon secretly planned to use facial recognition and Ring doorbells to create neighborhood "watch lists" Cory Doctorow
surveillance Foreigners visiting China are increasingly stumped by its cashless society Cory Doctorow
surveillance Amazon's surveillance doorbell marketers help cops get warrantless access to video footage from peoples' homes Cory Doctorow
police Amazon's secret deals with local cops give them access to realtime 911 data for use in scary alerts sent to Ring owners Cory Doctorow
glam Triple Chaser: a short documentary that uses machine learning to document tear gas use against civilians, calling out "philanthropist" Warren Kanders for his company's war-crimes Cory Doctorow
Business Many of the key Googler Uprising organizers have quit, citing retaliation from senior management Cory Doctorow
security "Massive scale" intrusion into mobile carriers' networks exposed customers' location, call data for years Cory Doctorow
Business Amazon's facial recognition fear crusade ramps up: now they're paying Facebook to show you pictures of suspected criminals to scare you into getting a surveillance doorbell Cory Doctorow
Business Whistleblower: Amazon Ring stores your doorbell and home video feeds unencrypted and grants broad "unfettered" access to them Cory Doctorow
Business Facebook kremlinology: Instagram founders' exodus signals immanent facebookization Cory Doctorow
books Schneier's "Click Here To Kill Everybody pervasive connected devices mean we REALLY can't afford shitty internet policy Cory Doctorow
