An activist's lawsuit claims that the Android "advertising ID" is personal identifying information under the GDPR.

Victory would require Google to get free and informed consent for identifying users that way.

When Google claims that it "cannot identify a user from per advertising ID", I suspect that what that really means is that Google cannot directly identify a user from per advertising ID alone. I suspect that correlating databases collected about that user and indexed by the advertising ID with other databases about per, it is possible to associate per advertising ID with per name with a high degree of confidence.

Facebook may face an antitrust investigation for the many companies it has bought, since their surveillance has a wide reach.

Google is facing an antitrust lawsuit.

You can make yourself mostly invisible to internet surveillance by (1) not giving your name to web sites, (2) blocking nonfree Javascript code that sites send to you, (3) blocking third-party trackers in web sites, and (4) connecting to sites across Tor so they can't tell your location.

A manifesto to democratize, decommidify and remediate work.

Pompeo has been using his office to boost his political career. Now that he has ousted the inspector general believed to have been investigating him, Congress wants to know what the investigation was about.

Global heating has made a repeat of the 1930s "dust bowl" heat more than twice as likely. It is now expected to occur around once in 40 years.