Civil Liberties Groups Oppose New Privacy “Super Bill of Pure Terribleness”
Digital rights organizations publish letter slamming cybersecurity bill cobbled together from three different proposals and gutted of privacy safeguards.
How the New EU Data Protection Regulation will be Misused to Censor Speech
By concentrating on privacy, Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation has omitted sufficient safeguards to protect freedom of expression. How bad is it? Aylin Akturk and Jeremy Malcolm tell you.
Who’s in that Vomit, Anyway?
Andrew Farke re-examines prehistoric vomit and finds…not a pterosaur.
Fighting Over Fatigue
How can you do medical research on chronic fatigue syndrome when divisions between patients, doctors and researchers are almost as chronic and painful as the disease itself? Virginia Gewin reports on new hopes of reconciliation.
Questioning Seasonal Variation in Antibiotic Prescribing
Lindsay Kobayashi considers the idea of the flu season.
Mars Will Come to Fear My Botany Powers
How easy is it to colonize Mars, really? And what about food? Steven Burgess interviews a scientist from the Mars One project for details.
Your Vizio TV is So Smart That It Watches You
Your Vizio Smart TV is not only great for sports, it’s great for spying on you, too. Julia Angwin reports.
Seattle continues business as usual trend when deploying surveillance systems
City of Seattle recently adopted sweeping privacy principles. So why do they thinking tracking individual drivers is not a surveillance system?
Curiosity to Scrutiny: The Early Days of Science Journalism
Popularizing science has always had its perils. Hilda Bastian contemplates the early years of science journalism.
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