Countries jostle to surrender civil liberties to a techno-fix app to quell COVID-19, but should instead heed Hong Kong’s low-tech lesson.
Read more...New Mexico AG Hector Balderas sues Google for violating children’s privacy under federal and state statutes. Don’t be evil indeed!
Read more...In her new book, Don’t Be Evil, Rana Foroohar explores how companies like Google and their tech brethren stampede over all of us.
Read more...Comparing Google to Qwant for user interface/user experience, privacy under the GDPR, and the “filter bubble”
Read more...Another medical data horrorshow.
Read more...Discussion of role of masks in global protest, as Hong Kong’s mask ban is ruled unconstitutional by High Court.
Read more...WSJ publishes results documenting how Google tweaks its search algorithms and adjusts your search results, to privilege large over small, and muddled middle perspectives.
Read more...Google now wants to play doctor.
Read more...Bloomberg’s recent story on electronic voting machines is good, but ignores their private equity owners, soft-pedals the role of corruption, and ignores the incursion of the intelligence community into the voting process.
Read more...Two recent NYT stories – on data privacy and drunk driving – highlight the dangers of unquestioned reliance on omnipotent back boxes.
Read more...How Trump made the long-standing border boondoggle even bigger.
Read more...Civil rights groups demand that Amazon Ring’s spy program be put behind bars.
Read more...A new, “brutally researched” book on whistleblowers describes their importance and the price they often pay.
Read more...Facial recognition cameras are bringing the datafication of the internet to the real world, threatening our right to privacy and public space.
Read more...A review of Edward Snowden’s new book.
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