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International Google launches "plus codes": open geocodes for locations that don't have street addresses Cory Doctorow

censorship After outcry over blocking links to Mastodon, Twitter announces ban on "promotion" of other social platforms Rob Beschizza

surveillance Using AI to find open cameras recording near where Instagram shots are taken Elías Villoro

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Don't use work laptops for personal stuff Rob Beschizza

Mars NASA hid an Easter Egg in the parachute for Perseverance Clive Thompson

dataviz Wooden sculptures showing solar dataviz for your location Clive Thompson

surveillance Under coronavirus lockdown, Russia expands surveillance state Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz

maps Old maps of Scotland impressed upon 3D elevation models Rob Beschizza

law FTC fines app TikTok/Musical.ly $5.7 million for child data privacy violations Xeni Jardin

Science WATCH: Two New Adam Savage #MythbustersJr episodes, 'Demolition Dominoes' and 'Gravity Defying Carl' Xeni Jardin

Funny Weirdly compelling game: Which domain name is more expensive? David Pescovitz

History The Nazis and your privacy Roderick Miller

privacy Bounty hunters track targets by buying realtime location data generated by T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T Cory Doctorow

army U.S. Military bans GPS-enabled fitness trackers Séamus Bellamy

creepy Spanish football app turns users into unwitting surveillance operatives Séamus Bellamy

Business An incredibly important paper on whether data can ever be "anonymized" and how we should handle release of large data-sets Cory Doctorow