two-state solution Jared Kushner says Palestinians screw-up every opportunity they've ever had, in celebration of a proposed two-state deal that he left them out of Thom Dunn
west bank Microsoft hires former AG Eric Holder to audit facial recognition tech used on West Bank Xeni Jardin
you're cut off After suing NSO Group for hacking Whatsapp, Facebook kicks NSO employees off its services Cory Doctorow
forensic architecture Triple Chaser: a short documentary that uses machine learning to document tear gas use against civilians, calling out "philanthropist" Warren Kanders for his company's war-crimes Cory Doctorow
adi shamir The world's preeminent cryptographers can't get visas to speak at US conferences Cory Doctorow
Novalpina Lawyer involved in suits against Israel's most notorious cyber-arms dealer targeted by its weapons, delivered through a terrifying Whatsapp vulnerability Cory Doctorow
shitty spooks Spies tried to infiltrate Citizen Lab and trick them into talking about their research on Israeli spytech company NSO Group Cory Doctorow
psy group Gates tells Mueller of Trump campaign deal with Israel's Psy-Group for 2016 "social media manipulation" Xeni Jardin
precrime Machine learning hucksters invent an AI racist uncle that predicts your personality from your facial bone structure Cory Doctorow
smeared ephebephiles Sacha Baron Cohen confronts Roy Moore with a beeping "pedophile detector" Cory Doctorow
myheritage MyHeritage leaks data of 92 million who use the genealogy and family tree website Xeni Jardin
ss7 Governments all over the world buy spy products that let them track and eavesdrop on global cellphones, especially US phones Cory Doctorow
cyberbit Israeli firm Cyberbit illegally spied on behalf of Ethiopia's despots, then stored all their stolen data on an unencrypted, world-readable website Cory Doctorow
disaster preparedness The US has quit UNESCO, the UN agency that protects world heritage sites and teaches poor children to read Cory Doctorow
cyberarms dealers Israeli company's spyware used to target corruption-fighting journalists and lawyers in Mexico Cory Doctorow
occupation The Realist: trenchant, beautifully surreal Israeli comics about a sweet and complicated existence Cory Doctorow
