Police State Watch: Amnesty Targets Tear Gas
Amnesty International has yesterday launched a resource on global misuse of tear gas, in the US and elsewhere:
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China’s Covid-19 Recovery Is Intensifying Class Exploitation
China’s response to the pandemic is to furth disempower its domestic and peripheral populations.
Read more...Watch: This Is What It Looks Like When the Response to Protests Against Police Violence Is… More Police Violence
Compilation of footage of police response to protests in various U.S. cities over police brutality and the killing of George Floyd, plus Amnesty International condemnation.
Read more...Why We Need the Human Touch in Contact Tracing for Coronavirus
Contact tracing with the human touch works better than the highly-touted app panaceas du jour – and without raising the same civil liberties concerns.
Read more...Contact Tracing Via Old Shoe-Leather Epidemiology While Spurning the Techno-Fix Fairy: How Hong Kong Quells COVID-19 Without Killing Civil Liberties
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 Attorney General Sues Google Over Kiddie Privacy
New Mexico AG Hector Balderas sues Google for violating children’s privacy under federal and state statutes. Don’t be evil indeed!
Read more...Evil is Baked into Big Tech’s Business Plan. Now What?
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...Fleeing the Hellscape of Google Search with Qwant
Comparing Google to Qwant for user interface/user experience, privacy under the GDPR, and the “filter bubble”
Read more...US Medical Data Security Gets Worse 2 Months After Expose of Hundreds of Millions of Images, Related Patient Info Open on the Internet
Another medical data horrorshow.
Read more...The Joker to Guy Fawkes: Why Protesters Around the World are Wearing the Same Masks
Discussion of role of masks in global protest, as Hong Kong’s mask ban is ruled unconstitutional by High Court.
Read more...Blockbuster WSJ Investigation: How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results
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 Collecting Medical Data on Millions Without Informing Patients or Doctors
Google now wants to play doctor.
Read more...Electronic Voting Machine Debacle Continues in 2019, Setting Dangerous Precedent for 2020
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...What’s Inside That Black Box: What Regulating Data Privacy and Policing Drunk Driving Have in Common
Two recent NYT stories – on data privacy and drunk driving – highlight the dangers of unquestioned reliance on omnipotent back boxes.
Read more...Trump’s Border Wall is a Multi-Billion Dollar Corporate Handout
How Trump made the long-standing border boondoggle even bigger.
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