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Top US Consumer Watchdog Has a Plan to Fight Predatory Data Brokers – Wired

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is proposing a rule that would allow regulators to police data brokers under the Fair… read more

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‘FYI. A Warrant Isn’t Needed’: Secret Service Says You Agreed To Be Tracked With Location Data – 404 Media

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Officials inside the Secret Service clashed over whether they needed a warrant to use location data harvested from ordinary apps… read more

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Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics – 404 Media

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The videos also show that while Apple and Google have taken steps either to stymie the flow of location data… read more

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KOSA: Protecting Kids or Policing Speech? Catalyst

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Although the authors of KOSA insist that the bill does not target speech but conduct, enforcement will clearly target expression… read more

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Thirsty data centres spring up in water-poor Mexican town – Context

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A two-year long drought in the semi-desert municipality of Colón, in the central Mexican state of Querétaro, has left many… read more

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What if all along we’ve been wrong about tinfoil hats [poem] – David Clewell

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so instead of rendering the wearer impervious to government-sanctioned mind manipulation or any other mental interference whatsoever—thereby allowing us to… read more

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