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The All-Seeing "i": Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy

7 min read · 2021-08-26 · “Under His Eye,” she says. The right farewell. “Under His Eye,” I reply, and she gives a little nod.
Reader View · Shared by 266, including Albert Ràfols, Tactical Tech, Gerd Leonhard, Aral Balkan, Faik Ersoy, Michael (मुकेश) 🇺🇦💪🏻, Thomas Power, Yann “shalf@mastodon.social” Heurtaux 不停, Tim Bray 💉💉💉🎉, Niklaus Gerber, Leif & Direkt, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Evan Selinger, Josep M. Ganyet, John Nosta, Glenn Greenwald, Jonathan Kogan, Privacy Matters 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇪🇺🌻, Rick Powell, Stefan Diepolder
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Now, however, that’s all set to change. Under the new design, your phone will now perform these searches on Apple’s behalf before your photos have even reached their iCloud servers, and—yada, yada, yada—if enough "forbidden content" is discovered, law-enforcement will be notified.
appleprivacyletter.com

An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology

5 min read · 2021-08-06 · Read and sign the open letter protesting against Apple's roll-out of new content-scanning technology that threatens to overturn individual privacy on a global scale, and to reverse progress achieved…
Reader View · Shared by 358, including Martin Steiger, Aral Balkan, Thomas Power, Diogo Mónica, Privacy Matters 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇪🇺🌻, Rick Powell
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Apple's proposed technology works by continuously monitoring photos saved or shared on the user's iPhone, iPad, or Mac. One system detects if a certain number of objectionable photos is detected in iCloud storage and alerts the authorities.
freddiedeboer.substack.com

Planet of Cops

6 min read · 2021-08-26 · originally published in May of 2017
Reader View · Shared by 9, including Prof Sophie Scott CBE, Rick Powell
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Krystal Ball: Bill Gates Is LYING TO YOU On Vaccine Patent Protection

2021-04-28 · Krystal Ball details how Bill Gates' solution to poor nation vaccine distribution protects Pharma profits.About Rising: Rising is a weekday morning show with...
Shared by 11, including Rick Powell, Steve Faktor
The New York Times

What if Instead of Calling People Out, We Called Them In?

9 min read · 2020-11-19 · Prof. Loretta J. Ross is combating cancel culture with a popular class at Smith College.
Reader View · Shared by 234, including Prof Sophie Scott CBE, Adam Grant, Aparna Nancherla, Sarah Lyall, Olivia Nuzzi, Jennifer Stirrup - Next: #EverywhereWorkplace, Nir Eyal, Lee Keyes, Christina Sommers, Lenore Skenazy, Todd Kashdan, Steven Pinker, Mike Novogratz, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷, justin caouette, Gabriele, Pedro Noguera, John C. Havens (he/him), Amy Edmondson
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Glenn Greenwald

No Matter the Liberal Metric Chosen, the Bush/Cheney Administration Was Far Worse Than Trump.

~14 min read · 2020-11-08 · Fantasies of a Trump-led fascist coup have redounded to the benefit of many -- especially those responsible for abuses far worse than those of the current president.
Reader View · Shared by 20, including Rick Powell, Helmi, Kelsey D. Atherton
The New Yorker

Noam Chomsky Believes Trump Is “the Worst Criminal in Human History”

6 min read · 2020-10-30 · The activist and linguist expressed serious concerns about the future of American democracy, although, in his view, it “was never much to write home about.”
Reader View · Shared by 55, including Rick Powell, Liv 😷, Steve Silberman, Merkstatt, Dr. Jeffrey Guterman, Justin Tiehen, John Tasioulas
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Dr. Opioid

2020-10-29 · William O’Brien was a well-heeled doctor with a thriving Philadelphia medical practice. He was also at the center of a massive painkiller supply chain...
Shared by 34, including Rick Powell, Benji Hyam
The American Prospect

The Corporatization of Nursing Homes

~17 min read · 2020-10-20 · A tragic history of how we’ve treated elderly citizens, for profit
Reader View · Shared by 12, including David Weigel, Matthew Holt, Rick Powell
Quillette

The Misguided Campaign Against Journalistic Objectivity

6 min read · 2020-10-02 · Locked down in a northern Ontario cottage over the summer, I found myself listening to CBC Radio’s Sunday Edition, an eclectic three-hour weekly morning show hosted, until his recent retirement, by…
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Matt Taibbi

The Left is Now the Right

~11 min read · 2020-07-20 · We laughed at the Republican busybody who couldn't joke, declared war on dirty paintings, and peered through your bedroom window. Now that person has switched sides, and nobody's laughing
Reader View · Shared by 39, including Michael Shermer, Rick Powell, Christina Sommers, Nick Lüthi, Sebastien Meunier, Jochen Burkhard
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Zaid Jilani FORCEFULLY Rebuts Counter-Cancel Culture Speech Letter

2020-07-13 · Journalist Zaid Jilani gives his take on the growing backlash over a letter defending free speech. Published in Harper's Magazine, the document was signed by...
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Harper's Magazine

A Letter on Justice and Open Debate

2020-07-07 · July 7, 2020 The below letter will be appearing in the Letters section of the magazine’s October issue. We welcome responses at letters@harpers.org Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform, along with wider calls for greater equality and […]
Shared by 176, including Simon Hix, Richard Dawkins, Amy Siskind 🏳️‍🌈, Alice Wong 王美華, Hrag, jason@calacanis.com, Niall Ferguson, Judd Legum, Paul Graham, Kara Swisher, Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis, Mathew Ingram, Jay Rosen, Matt Goodwin, Scott Galloway, Joshua Benton, Sam Harris, Hiroko Tabuchi, Charles Duhigg, Christina Sommers
The Guardian

The Guardian view on Israel and annexation: unlawful, unwise

2 min read · From 2020 · Editorial: Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans will compound the suffering of Palestinians. International condemnation should be accompanied by consequences
Reader View · Shared by 9, including Rick Powell
jonathanrosenbaum.net

A Few Thoughts about a Rant (& the rant itself)

From 2020 · Although I couldn’t bring myself to watch all of Trump’s rally speech in Tulsa last night, I did tune into the Fox channel enough times to catch the gist of most of it. I wanted to solve the mystery…
Reader View · Shared by 4, including Rick Powell
The New York Times

The Police Are Rioting. We Need to Talk About It.

5 min read · From 2020 · It is an attack on civil society and democratic accountability.
Reader View · Shared by 33, including Jennifer Ouellette, Rick Powell, Carly, NYTimes Communications
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