privacy Toronto approves Google's surveillance city, despite leaks revealing Orwellian plans Cory Doctorow

AI EU expert panel calls for a ban on AI-based risk-scoring and limits on mass surveillance Cory Doctorow

Business Patronscan wants cities to require bars to scan your ID with its service so it can maintain a secret, unaccountable blacklist Cory Doctorow

china Chinese AI traffic cam mistook a bus ad for a human and publicly shamed the CEO it depicted for jaywalking Cory Doctorow

usausausa DHS plans to use credit-scores to judge who may become a citizen Cory Doctorow

apple Apple's fine-print reveals a secret program to spy on Iphone users and generate "trust scores" Cory Doctorow

china China's pervasive "social credit" scheme is still in development, but already profoundly shaping public behavior Cory Doctorow

china Chinese jaywalkers are identified and shamed by facial recognition, and now they'll get warnings over text message Cory Doctorow

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books Pulitzer prize winner Matthew Desmond's "Poverty, By America" is about consumption, exploitation and how money trickles up Elías Villoro

trump The Trump 63-second press briefing Kevin Reome

immigration The US Department of Justice has officially begun to un-naturalize citizens Thom Dunn

education Millionaire dilettantes' "education reform" have failed, but teacher-driven, evidence-supported education works miracles Cory Doctorow

happy mutants America's Fiber Future: Susan Crawford on how America's wired future is slipping away Cory Doctorow

News Maria Butina plea hearing set for Thursday, her spy boss Torshin missing, Putin unhappy Xeni Jardin

facebook Facebook will subject all of its users to "trustworthiness scores," similar to China's Citizen Scores Cory Doctorow

surveillance The predictable dystopian trajectory of China's Citizen Scores Cory Doctorow

china China's mass surveillance and pervasive social controls are based on a rocket scientist's advocacy for "systems thinking" Cory Doctorow

privacy Happy Data Privacy Day! A turning point for anonymity, privacy, and the tools that deliver them Gabriella Coleman

surveillance Pentagon mass surveillance slurped up the world's social media traffic; then they dumped it on a publicly accessible Amazon cloud server Cory Doctorow