surveillance When you take a commercial genetic test, you opt your whole family into warrantless state genetic surveillance Cory Doctorow
Business Genetic genealogy company Gedmatch acquired by company with ties to FBI & law enforcement—why you should be worried Jennifer Lynch
racism Amazon secretly planned to use facial recognition and Ring doorbells to create neighborhood "watch lists" Cory Doctorow
law enforcement That Robot Dog from Boston Dynamics has a new job on the Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad Thom Dunn
web theory Freedom House: Thanks to social media, internet freedom is down for the the ninth straight year Cory Doctorow
security Ring: "We don't use facial recognition"; also Ring: "We have a head of facial recognition research" Cory Doctorow
surveillance Amazon's surveillance doorbell marketers help cops get warrantless access to video footage from peoples' homes Cory Doctorow
politics NSA domestic surveillance debate returns to Congress with 'Ending Mass Collection of Americans’ Phone Records Act' Xeni Jardin
privacy NSA report discloses that the agency tripled its surveillance of Americans in 2017 Cory Doctorow
privacy Seattle spends five years failing to come up with a privacy policy for its $3.6m surveillance network, then spends $150k ripping it out Cory Doctorow
News #FISA: Senate passes bill to give NSA 6 more years of warrantless surveillance on Americans Xeni Jardin
law EFF to NSA: you scammed your way to another six years of warrantless spying, and you'd better enjoy it while it lasts Cory Doctorow
surveillance Congressional Democrats have so little faith in Trump's leadership that they've awarded him the power to conduct limitless, warrantless mass surveillance of Americans Cory Doctorow
politics Congress votes to give NSA 6 more years of spying on Americans without a warrant Xeni Jardin
