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Climate.gov was destroyed. Open data saved it.
"After losing their jobs at NOAA, Rebecca Lindsey, her sister and another colleague teamed up to rebuild a pivotal resource the Trump administration took offline."
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Happy 250th birthday, America
Let's keep building.
Democracy
They tell us surveillance makes us safer. It undermines our democratic rights.
Civil society actors in nearly every region of the world now operate under the assumption that they are being surveilled. The result is a less democratic world for everyone.
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Signs you're a dangerous terrorist: using Signal, moving zines
The unusually long sentences criminalize being an anti-fascist activist, reading the wrong zines, and using the wrong communication apps. They're incredibly dangerous.
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Sustaining innovation has failed us. It's time to think more radically
Some innovations create a new future that serves people better. Some sustain the status quo. It's time to think more radically.
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The Technological Republic, in brief
In which a defense contractor lays its anti-democratic, pro-fascist ideology bare.
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Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data.
"Google had already disclosed my data without telling me. There was no opportunity to contest it."
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Stop Flock
Flock is building a national surveillance network. A protest movement is forming to tear it down.
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When the President threatens to commit a genocide
This cannot continue.
Democracy
What Digital Isolation and Censorship Evasion Look Like In Wartime Iran
"Four weeks into the war, Iran is plummeting toward total digital isolation with its internet blocked and communications heavily restricted and monitored." And it's part of a bigger trend.
Democracy
The DOJ thinks news is contraband
By treating source materials as contraband, the DOJ is putting both journalism and democracy at risk.
Democracy
The White House has an app now, and Trump wants you to report people to ICE on it
Want to report your friends and neighbors for extrajudicial kidnapping? The new White House app wants you to get in touch.