Collaborate Disseminate
Activists have asked Google to disable the feature on government accounts. Continue reading Gmail’s ‘Self Destruct’ Feature Will Probably Be Used to Illegally Destroy Government Records
The legislation would ban the city from signing non-disclosure agreements with surveillance companies. Continue reading Oakland Proposes Strongest Anti-Surveillance Regulations in the Country
The encryption debate has reached the Kremlin. Continue reading Russian Government Blocks Telegram, but Telegram Vows to Fight Back
‘The Rise of the Crisis Actor Conspiracy Movement’ talks to Stoneman Douglas student David Hogg and victims of the Sandy Hook and Sutherland Springs shootings. Continue reading We Met With Crisis Actor Conspiracy Theorists and the Victims They Baselessly Attack
AltspaceVR offered robots and humanoids the chance to watch democracy in action from the comfort of a virtual penthouse. Continue reading Watching the Facebook Hearing in VR Was a Special Kind of Dystopia
A new German greenhouse has its first harvest on the icy continent. Continue reading This Salad Was Grown in Antarctica
Knowhere is using AI to aggregate news and rewrite it ‘impartially.’ Continue reading A Startup Media Site Says AI Can Take Bias Out of News
Surveillance memes are everywhere because it feels like surveillance is everywhere. Continue reading Mass Surveillance Memes Show Our Collective Anxiety Over Government Spying
Thieves stole over $500 million worth of art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 28 years ago. Now, technologists are using Apple’s ARKit to bring the paintings back. Continue reading Technologists Use Augmented Reality to Return Stolen Artwork
IOActive researchers found that ransomware attackers could force SoftBank Robotics robots to demand money, display porn in public places and cuss out customers. Continue reading Hacked Retail Robots Can Assault Customers With Porn and Demand Bitcoin