books Schneier's "Click Here To Kill Everybody pervasive connected devices mean we REALLY can't afford shitty internet policy Cory Doctorow
Technology IBM to exit facial recognition business, opposes use of AI technology for mass surveillance Xeni Jardin
Business Genetic genealogy company Gedmatch acquired by company with ties to FBI & law enforcement—why you should be worried Jennifer Lynch
Technology Microsoft hires former AG Eric Holder to audit facial recognition tech used on West Bank Xeni Jardin
corruption Elizabeth Warren proposes an "excessive lobbying tax" that would fund independent Congressional experts and public participation in policy Cory Doctorow
Kids How facial recognition has turned summer camp into a dystopia for campers, parents, counsellors and photographers (but not facial recognition vendors) Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Big Tech got big because we stopped enforcing antitrust law (not because tech is intrinsically monopolistic) Cory Doctorow
facebook American Conservative laments market concentration and private property as bad for free expression Cory Doctorow
privacy Calgary malls caught secretly using facial recognition to characterise shoppers' age and gender Cory Doctorow
crime Thanks to 2016's trade secret law and algorithmic justice, America's courts have become AI-Kafka nightmares Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Little Brother is 10 years old today: I reveal the secret of writing future-proof science fiction Cory Doctorow
Copyfight A proposal to stop 3D printers from making guns is a perfect parable of everything wrong with information security Cory Doctorow
History My RSS feeds from a decade ago, a snapshot of gadget blogging when that was a thing Rob Beschizza
