surveillance Amazon used "security" to sell Ring doorbells, then blamed customers when hackers broke into them Cooper Quintin and Bill Budington

Gadgets Family puts Ring camera in children's room, discovers that hacker is watching their kids 24/7, taunting them through the speaker Cory Doctorow

corruption Black man beaten by Charlottesville Nazis has been charged with assault Cory Doctorow

aviation United passenger threatened with handcuffs to make room for "higher-priority" traveler Mark Frauenfelder

aviation Oversold, understated and authoritarian: debullshitifying the reporting on United's "removal" of Dr David Dao Cory Doctorow

victim blaming Texas official: "People enjoy floods" Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids Kim Jong-un is dead, Prince Andrew is broke, and Kobe Bryant killed himself, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

rona Unmasked shoppers break Target employee's arm after being told to leave store Rob Beschizza

Environment You can't recycle your way out of climate change Cory Doctorow

picks Kavanaugh's weeping, shouting, and blaming is classic DARVO behavior Mark Frauenfelder

sexual harassment Notes from the #MeToo march: thoughts and prayers can't right what is wrong Maureen Herman

happy mutants Soupy Leaves Home: a masterpiece of YA graphic storytelling, about hobos on the open road Cory Doctorow

rape culture Op-ed recommendation: “Until we treat rapists as ordinary criminals we won’t stop them” Caroline Siede

security Amnesty: hackers spent months building personas used to phish Qatari labor activists Cory Doctorow

twitter “A honeypot for assholes”: Inside Twitter’s 10-year failure to stop harassment Mark Frauenfelder

Science Your medical data: misappropriated by health-tech companies, off-limits to you Cory Doctorow

picks Rapist Brock Turner texted pals photos of victim's breasts Xeni Jardin

law Why defense attorneys aren't cheering Brock Allan Turner's wrist-slap Cory Doctorow

picks Prince: death by ignorance and fear Maureen Herman

rape culture The Jackie Fox rape disclosure shows we still have a lot to learn Maureen Herman