The UK’s surveillance state poses legal problems for the legality of personal data transfers to it post Brexit, and the UK and EU are not close to having a solution.
Read more...But I want to talk about the western “experts” in Washington and London who cozied up to @ShamiWitness — especially since all of them are still around, many of them bigger and more influential in our political discourse than ever.
Read more...How Silicon Valley giants like Amazon and Palantir team up with ICE to hunt down immigrants, pick out the innocent as potential criminals, and build the cloud for Defense Department and CIA.
Read more...All the initiatives that want to make AI ethical seem to think it’s about adding something i.e. ethics, instead of about revealing the value-laden-ness at every level of computation, right down to the mathematics.
Read more...Debate, prison debate, and an injustice you may be able to help rectify
Read more...The time is overdue to Do Something about Facebook and Google.
Read more...Matt Taibbi weighs in on how tech giants are endangering your civil liberties.
Read more...An insider’s take on surveillance.
Read more...A libertarian case against Silicon Valley’s digital slavemasters.
Read more...Chutzpah!
Read more...Facebook wants to control even more of your mind.
Read more...Two Senate Democrats seek regulation of smart TVs. Since this is unlikely to happen anytime soon, consumers are faced with not purchasing such devices in the first instance, or attempting to configure them to prevent them from hoovering up personal data.
Read more...California passes privacy legislation, which pre-empts a more sweeping ballot initiative previously scheduled for November.
Read more...The proliferation of military weapons and gear corresponds to that of para-militarized law enforcement officers.
Read more...Seyrmour Hersh’s retrospective demonstrates how much nerve it takes to do reporting, and how few reporters have it.
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