gadgets Camera the size of a grain of salt not much use for surveillance, but great for inspecting urethras Rob Beschizza
politics The U.S. government is the top customer when it comes to buying Americans' private data Rob Beschizza
national security Suspected "Chinese spy balloon" was spotted over Montana yesterday — and is still flying over the U.S. Carla Sinclair
Business DOJ charges Huawei and CFO Meng Wanzhou with racketeering, conspiracy to steal IP Xeni Jardin
Copyfight Three years after the W3C approved a DRM standard, it's no longer possible to make a functional indie browser Cory Doctorow
security China's new cybersecurity rules ban foreign companies from using VPNs to phone home Cory Doctorow
police 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
jeffrey epstein Asking for pre-trial release, Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers say he has 'spotless 14-year record of walking the straight and narrow' Xeni Jardin
surveillance When you take a commercial genetic test, you opt your whole family into warrantless state genetic surveillance Cory Doctorow