china Chinese citizens will have to submit to a face scan in order to get a new phone number Séamus Bellamy

privacy Microsoft contractors are listening to your Skype conversations Séamus Bellamy

privacy Apple's contractors also listening to private conversations Séamus Bellamy

amazon Amazon's being greasy about Alexa user data. Again. Séamus Bellamy

turkey Turkish Intelligence developed a smartphone apps that lets its citizens rat each other out Séamus Bellamy

google Google changed the settings on Android phones without their owners' permission Séamus Bellamy

picks Les Moonves' wife Julie Chen borrows the Camille Cosby playbook Gina Loukareas

surveillance TSA "Quiet Skies" surveillance program targets innocent U.S. citizens Séamus Bellamy

shopping Canadian mall caught collecting facial recognition data on the sly Séamus Bellamy

Science Creepy new spy camera is so small it could be hiding anywhere Séamus Bellamy

big brother Today: '1984' nationwide movie screening to protest current politics Carla Sinclair

corruption The Snoopers Charter gives these 48 organisations unlimited, secret access to all UK browsing history Cory Doctorow

dogs This husky loves DuckTales – woo-oo! Gail Sherman

Boing Boing Gadgets Catch peeping toms with this all-purpose hidden camera detector! Boing Boing's Shop

Science Harrowing and grim graffiti discovered in 1,600-year-old prison Allan Rose Hill

batman A radical unlicensed queer comic book movie returns to theaters Thom Dunn

Guided by Voices interviewed on their 30-year-old EP that became a cult classic  Lee Keeler

crime Supreme Court rejects Steve Bannon's plea to avoid prison time Ellsworth Toohey

science fiction "Big Germs" — short fiction by Rudy Rucker Boing Boing