Is Location Tracking Technology the Magic Pill to Stemming the Coronavirus? American Civil Liberties Union

Mar 302020
 

This piece first appeared on Just Security. If asked to give up their privacy in the interests of stemming the coronavirus, many Americans might be inclined to say yes. But the answer requires more nuance, both because there are serious tradeoffs to be made, and because sacrificing privacy may actually backfire.Consider, for example, serious discussions reportedly underway between the tech industry and the White House over how our cellphone location data might be used to help in…

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Permission Culture Gone Mad: Worries About Proper License For ‘Balcony Singing’ Lead Collection Society To Say It’s Okay, You Can Sing Techdirt.

Mar 302020
 

Yet another reminder that copyright is really, really broken. As you may have seen, there have been a few viral videos making the rounds of people locked down in apartment buildings deciding to hold impromptu music performances from balconies. When the first of these came out, I had joked that it would only be a matter of time until some music collection society called these an unlicensed public performance and demanded royalty payments. Thankfully, that…

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This Crisis Has Exposed the Absurdities of Neoliberalism. That Doesn’t Mean It’ll Destroy It Jacobin

Mar 292020
 

The coronavirus shock has shaken the world’s stock markets, imposing the need for massive state bailouts. But the measures to deal with the crisis risk spurring an authoritarian controlled capitalism — one that protects corporate interests while offloading the costs onto the rest of us. US president Donald Trump speaks as Vice President Mike Pence looks on during a briefing on the coronavirus pandemic in the press briefing room of the White House on March…

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Bob Dylan just released a 17 minute song about JFK’s assassination Boing Boing

Mar 292020
 

Bob Dylan just released his first new song in eight years. It’s a 17-minute murder ballad about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. From the lyrics to Murder Most Foul: “It was a dark day in Dallas, November ’63. The day that will live on in infamy. President Kennedy was a-riding high, good day to be living and good day to die.” Greetings to my fans and followers with gratitude for all your support and…

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Ohio Legislature Passes Bill Letting Any Voter Request a Postal Ballot Ballot Access News

Mar 292020
 

On March 25, the Ohio legislature passed HB 197, which lets any registered voter request an absentee postal ballot for the 2020 primary. However, the bill does not allow anyone who had not been registered already to register in time … Continue reading →

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GNU Guile 3.0.2 released What’s New at GNU

Mar 292020
 

We are pleased to announce GNU Guile 3.0.2, the second bug-fix release of the new 3.0 stable series! This release represents 22 commits by 8 people since version 3.0.1.Among other things, this release fixes a heap corruption bug that could lead to random crashes and a rare garbage collection issue in multi-threaded programs.It also adds a new module implementing SRFI-171 transducers.See the release announcement for details and the download page to give it a go!

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GNU Guile: GNU Guile 3.0.2 released What’s New at GNU

Mar 292020
 

We are pleased to announce GNU Guile 3.0.2, the second bug-fix release of the new 3.0 stable series! This release represents 22 commits by 8 people since version 3.0.1.Among other things, this release fixes a heap corruption bug that could lead to random crashes and a rare garbage collection issue in multi-threaded programs.It also adds a new module implementing SRFI-171 transducers.See the release announcement for details and the download page to give it a go!

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Internet Archive offers 1.4 million copyrighted books for free online Ars Technica

Mar 292020
 

Enlarge / Hazard tape blocks the book returns slot at a London library. (credit: Richard Baker / Getty Images) One of the casualties of coronavirus-related social distancing measures has been public libraries, which are shut down in many communities around the world. This week, the Internet Archive, an online library best known for running the Internet’s Wayback Machine, announced a new initiative to expand access to digital books during the pandemic. For almost a decade, an…

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Corporate America Is Getting a Bailout. Its Workers Are Getting Screwed. Jacobin

Mar 282020
 

The United States could have followed the example set by countries like Denmark, which have guaranteed workers’ wages during the crisis. Instead, America has set itself up for a devastating and unprecedented wave of layoffs. A grocery store worker recycles boxes on March 28, 2020 in Brooklyn, New York. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images) The coronavirus pandemic may be global in scale, but its material impact on ordinary workers thus far has varied widely from…

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The Limits of Liberal Urbanism Jacobin

Mar 282020
 

As housing becomes more and more unaffordable, liberal mayors have jumped to recognize the crisis. At the same time, they’re fully committed to the status quo, giving carte blanche to developers at the expense of legitimately affordable housing. Staircase for the 167th Street (Jerome Avenue Line) on the southwest corner of 167th Street and River Avenue in the Highbridge section of the Bronx. Wikimedia Commons In big cities today, the housing problem is obvious to…

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Vermont Secretary of State Wants Legislature to Eliminate Petitions for This Year’s Elections Ballot Access News

Mar 282020
 

Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos, a Democrat, wants the legislature to eliminate mandatory petitions for the 2020 elections. See this story. Thanks to Pat Quinn for this news. … Continue reading →

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After Florida Held Its Primary Amid Pandemic, Two Poll Workers Tested Positive for Coronavirus The Intercept

Mar 282020
 

Two Florida poll workers have tested positive for the novel coronavirus since the March 17 primary, which was held contrary to guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention against large gatherings to curb the spread of the coronavirus.  Both of the workers were stationed at polls in Broward County, in the southeast part of the state. A spokesperson for the Broward County Supervisor of Elections said on Thursday that all 16 poll workers…

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We’ve come full rectangle: Polaroid is reborn out of The Impossible Project TechCrunch

Mar 282020
 

More than a decade after announcing that it would keep Polaroid’s abandoned instant film alive, The Impossible Project has done the… improbable: It has officially become the brand it set out to save. And to commemorate the occasion, there’s a new camera, the Polaroid Now. The convergence of the two brands has been in the works for years, and in fact Impossible Project products were already Polaroid-branded. But this marks a final and satisfying shift…

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SF Bar Owner to Yelp: jwz

Mar 282020
 

THIS asshole. “Fuck All of These People Entirely”Like many business owners across the country, Jamie Zawinski, the owner of SoMa nightclub DNA Lounge, was less than pleased to learn that a partnership between Yelp and GoFundMe meant that the Yelp listing for his business now had a fundraising button on it that he hadn’t consented to. “What the fuck?” he said regarding the move in an email to Eater. “Seriously, what the fucking fuck?” […]As…

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Those “Free” Remote Learning Apps Have a High Cost: Your Student’s Privacy American Civil Liberties Union

Mar 282020
 

The COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak that has ravaged our nation and world has had many jarring moments. For parents and their children, one of those came with the mass closing of our schools. Tens of millions of children faced having their educations grind to a halt, including 1.1 million children in New York City’s public schools alone — a number which includes two of my own.While Americans have grown understandably weary of the tech industry, which…

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EFF, ACLU & CDT Argue Five Months of Warrantless Covert 24/7 Video Surveillance Violates Fourth Amendment Deeplinks

Mar 282020
 

Should the fact that your neighbors can see the outside of your house mean the police can use a camera to record everything that happens there for more than five months? We don’t think so either. That’s why we joined ACLU, ACLU of Massachusetts, and the Center for Democracy & Technology in filing an amicus brief last week in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court arguing the Fourth Amendment and Massachusetts’s state equivalent protect us from…

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Millions of People Will Struggle to Pay Rent in April, but Few in Congress Care The Intercept

Mar 282020
 

On Wednesday, April 1, rent payments will be due for the first time since the coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic — yet even with unemployment at a record high, major bill payments have barely factored into U.S. politicians’ response to the crisis. On Friday, the House passed an emergency multi-trillion dollar relief package, which was approved by the Senate on Wednesday night and will now head to President Donald Trump’s desk. It’s about five…

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Yeah, that Zoom app you’re trusting with work chatter? It lives with ‘vampires feeding on the blood of human data’ The Register

Mar 282020
 

Doc Frown: Searls decries video-conferencing software’s ‘creepy’ closeness with ad tracking As the global coronavirus pandemic pushes the popularity of videoconferencing app Zoom to new heights, one web veteran has sounded the alarm over its “creepily chummy” relationship with tracking-based advertisers.…

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