facebook for frightened people Amazon's secret deals with local cops give them access to realtime 911 data for use in scary alerts sent to Ring owners Cory Doctorow
neil basu London police official warns journalists not to publish leaks on pain of imprisonment Cory Doctorow
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pis Europe's surging, far-right, "anti-establishment" parties: funded by billionaires, voting for billionaire-friendly policies, lining their own pockets Cory Doctorow
ham sandwiches Ahead of California's criminal justice reforms to reduce mass incarceration, prosecutors are locking in plea deals forcing defendants to give up the rights they're about to get Cory Doctorow
mass surveillance UK cops are secretly harvesting all data from the phones and cloud accounts of suspects, victims and witnesses and insecurely storing it forever Cory Doctorow
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selective enforcement EFF to Facebook: enforce your rules banning cops from creating sockpuppet accounts and be transparent when you catch cops doing it Cory Doctorow
big brother watch London cops are subjecting people in the centre of town to facial recognition today and tomorrow Cory Doctorow
psychopaths in blue St Louis cops indicted for beating up a "protester" who turned out to be an undercover cop Cory Doctorow
predpol Is this the full list of US cities that have bought or considered Predpol's predictive policing services? Cory Doctorow
