law In a huge win for open data, Congress passes the Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary Government Data Act Cory Doctorow
censorship We don't know how much Village Roadshow paid to buy Australia's new censoring copyright law Cory Doctorow
christ what an asshole Trump's FCC seems to have ended the practice of releasing its ISP speed-tests, leaving Americans in the dark about what they're paying for Cory Doctorow
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Business Your wireless carrier is definitely throttling video, but not because of network congestion (Verizon's the worst) Cory Doctorow
transparency Trump's Interior Secretary is now blacking out nearly all details of his calendar Cory Doctorow
censorship The platforms control our public discourse, and who they disconnect is arbitrary and capricious Cory Doctorow
Business Avowed "utopian anarchist" Elon Musk is also one of the top donors to the GOP "Protect the House" PAC Cory Doctorow
crime Thanks to 2016's trade secret law and algorithmic justice, America's courts have become AI-Kafka nightmares Cory Doctorow
trump Trump won't stop tearing up official papers so the White House archives employ a staff to tape them back together for the National Archives Cory Doctorow
transparency Laramie County, Wyoming Sheriffs' department blocks public records requests for their prison phone monopoly deal Cory Doctorow
Business Amazon has been quietly selling its facial recognition system to US police forces, marketing it for bodycam use Cory Doctorow
privacy NSA report discloses that the agency tripled its surveillance of Americans in 2017 Cory Doctorow
surveillance Oakland passes groundbreaking municipal law requiring citizen oversight of local surveillance Cory Doctorow
Business Trump's finance watchdog wants to make the taxpayer-funded database of crooked banks go dark Cory Doctorow
canada Nova Scotia filled its public Freedom of Information Archive with citizens' private data, then arrested the teen who discovered it Cory Doctorow
transparency For the first time, a US president has classified the legal justification for taking publicly acknowledged actions Cory Doctorow
