Boing Boing Gadgets Florida inmates sue prisons for digitally confiscating the music they were sold Cory Doctorow
surveillance American prisoners coerced or tricked into providing voice-prints for use in eternal, secret, unchecked surveillance Cory Doctorow
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crime The secret, unaccountable location-tracking tool favored by dirty cops has been hacked (and it wasn't hard) Cory Doctorow
surveillance Cops have a secret, unaccountable system for tracking you by your cellphone, and they abuse it like crazy Cory Doctorow
prisons Hack of 70M prisoner phone calls is biggest attorney-client privilege breach in US history Xeni Jardin
politics Election board: sheriff who threatened Kamala Harris supporters won't provide election security Rob Beschizza
News Securus Technologies loves charging exorbitant fees for families to talk to incarcerated loved ones Yoy Luadha
privacy Bounty hunters track targets by buying realtime location data generated by T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T Cory Doctorow
transparency Laramie County, Wyoming Sheriffs' department blocks public records requests for their prison phone monopoly deal Cory Doctorow
Business America's prisons are replacing vital in-person visits with expensive, nonfunctional video calling Cory Doctorow
corruption What does the prisoner phone-recording leak mean for prisoners and their families? Cory Doctorow