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What is Fog Reveal? A legal scholar explains the app some police forces are using to track people without a warrant

Government agencies and private security companies in the U.S. have found a cost-effective way to engage in warrantless surveillance of individuals, groups and places: a pay-for-access web tool called Fog Reveal.

The Conversation

Cloak-and-dagger policing

While people were worrying about military-style policing, US law enforcement quietly deployed the tools of spycraft against their fellow citizens.

360info

Can scandal-hit Ramaphosa survive as South Africa’s president?

Ramaphosa’s opponents want him impeached over a growing scandal, but he still retains significant support in the ANC.

Al Jazeera

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Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’

Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been using an obscure cellphone tracking tool, at times without search warrants, that gives them the power to follow people’s movements months back in time, according to public records and internal emails obtained by The Associated Press

The Independent UK

U.K.'s Online Censorship Bill Causes Far More Harm Than It Attempts To Prevent

The innocuously-titled Online Safety Bill threatens citizens' rights to privacy and to speak freely.

Reason

Police Can Access Your Ring Camera Footage Without a Warrant

After Amazon admitted it gives Ring footage to police departments upon "emergency" request, San Francisco Mayor London Breed wants cops to be able to access any camera at any time.

Reason

Tech firms under pressure to safeguard user data as abortion prosecutions loom

Private information collected and retained by companies could be weaponized to prosecute abortion seekers and providers

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Marikana victims rally in South Africa as Ramaphosa sued

EFF rallied with survivors of Marikana shooting in Johannesburg where a lawsuit against the president is being heard.

Al Jazeera

South Africa’s EFF leads peaceful protests at Eswatini borders

Since last May, there has been civil unrest and protests in Eswatini, one of the world’s last remaining monarchies.

Al Jazeera

"Do Copyright Holders Get a Free Pass to Identify Alleged Infringers?"

From Paul Alan Levy (Public Citizen) (bullets and some paragraph breaks added): [A] controversy over Twitter postings by CallMeMoneyBags … presents the latest challenge in the Northern District of California to the well established rule, first established in 2001 in Dendrite International v. Doe, previously followed in that district as…

Reason

South African anti-immigration vigilante leader granted bail

For years, anti-immigrant sentiments have caused violent clashes in township communities around the country.

Al Jazeera

The SHOP SAFE Act Would Entrench Amazon's Dominance

An ill-conceived proposal to increase liability for online marketplaces could effectively outlaw all but the biggest players.

Reason

Poll: Democrats Drop and Republicans Rise, but the Real Juice Is With the Independents

Plus: EFF fights ban on discussing digital locks, Walmart to launch cryptocurrency, and more...

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