privacy Investigators claim that Oxbridge and other top UK universities are operating a massive, illegal surveillance dragnet aimed at students/alumni and their friends and families Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Researchers craft Android app that reveals menagerie of hidden spyware; legally barred from doing the same with iOS Cory Doctorow
surveillance Pentagon mass surveillance slurped up the world's social media traffic; then they dumped it on a publicly accessible Amazon cloud server Cory Doctorow
privacy Web analytics companies offer "replay sessions" that let corporations watch every click and keystroke for individual users Cory Doctorow
Gadgets Teardown of a consumer voice/location cellular spying device that fits in the tip of a USB cable Cory Doctorow
Gadgets Consumer groups' labs advise parents not to buy connected toys, claim risk of strangers listening and talking to kids over the internet Cory Doctorow
Gadgets Telcos "selling realtime ability to associate web browsing with name & address" Rob Beschizza
corruption Court tells Trump that he can't demand details and data on everyone who talked about protesting his inauguration Cory Doctorow
privacy The future of digital rights in the UK will start at ORGCon 17, London, Nov 4-5 Cory Doctorow
web theory DHS says it will force everyone who's ever immigrated to the USA to hand over social media Cory Doctorow
surveillance Chelsea Manning: we're spied on all the time, and the state still can't figure out who we are Cory Doctorow
privacy Canada's Mounties use a 6-year-old "interim policy" to justify warrantless mass surveillance Cory Doctorow
corruption Trump's spy agencies say AI vendors will sell them needle-detection tools for infinite haystacks Cory Doctorow
surveillance Case study of LAPD and Palantir's predictive policing tool: same corruption; new, empirical respectability Cory Doctorow
