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  • crime Your phone is a crimewave in your pocket, and it's all the fault of greedy carriers and complicit regulators Cory Doctorow
  • security EFF publishes an indispensable, plain-language guide to "cell-site simulators": the surveillance devices that track you via your phone Cory Doctorow
  • china Hong Kong's #612strike uprising is alive to surveillance threats, but its countermeasures are woefully inadequate Cory Doctorow
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  • surveillance West coast jurisdictions advance community oversight of police surveillance Shahid Buttar
  • Were police snooping on Women's March protesters' cellphones? Too many departments won't say Curtis Waltman
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