kashmir Watch this amazing 20-year-old acoustic guitarist play Led Zeppelin's 'Kashmir' Carla Sinclair

videos Indian Army ties down a captured Kashmiri man to Jeep to deter rock-throwers Cory Doctorow

censorship Indian government censors tweets critical of Indian government censorship Mark Frauenfelder

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law Reporter submits self to online slander sites to see how the scam works Rob Beschizza

facial recognition I tried to access my secret consumer data. Their facial recognition software told me to smile. Thom Dunn

algorithmic bureaucracy New York Times writer is shocked to see how much a social trust scoring system knows about her Mark Frauenfelder

hacktivism [UPDATED] Google image search for "best toilet paper" returns images of Pakistan flag Mark Frauenfelder

the spice must flow Kashmiri saffron is disappearing Mark Frauenfelder

books The latest Facebook scandal might explain why Amazon wrongfully banned book-reviewers Cory Doctorow

security Even after you turn off Facebook location tracking, Facebook tracks your location Cory Doctorow

corruption Why Do-Not-Track browser settings are useless and what to do about it Cory Doctorow

privacy Facebook's "shadow profiles": the involuntary dossiers of information you never provided, and can't opt out of Cory Doctorow

google Forbes removed article critical of Google after it asked nastily Rob Beschizza

security Facebook: We did 'a test' last year using some people's location data to suggest friends Xeni Jardin

picks Privacy invasion? Facebook is using your phone's location data to suggest friends Xeni Jardin

security Waze is an awesome driving app that also lets hackers stalk you Xeni Jardin

Business 23andme & Ancestry.com aggregated the world's DNA; the police obliged them by asking for it Cory Doctorow

apps Woman shot dead by drug gang after following Waze app's directions to wrong destination Xeni Jardin

music Badass schoolchildren perform "Kashmir" and "The Immigrant Song" on xylophone Rob Beschizza