Links — #politics

• Deaths and disappearances of scientists spark federal probe (Apr 26, 2026)
  At least 10 individuals connected to sensitive U.S. nuclear and aerospace research have died or disappeared in recent years, prompting a federal investigation.
  #news #politics
• Google broke its promise to me. Now ICE has my data. (Apr 26, 2026)
  An EFF account of Amandla Thomas-Johnson's data being handed to ICE without notice, abandoning Google's decade-long policy to alert users first.
  #news #politics #privacy
• It is time to ban the sale of precise geolocation (Apr 26, 2026)
  The case for treating commercial sale of fine-grained location data the way we treat other privacy-corrosive markets: outright prohibition.
  #essays #politics #privacy
• German EUDI Wallet will require an Apple or Google account (Apr 26, 2026)
  The architecture spec for Germany's national digital identity wallet pins trust to the two phone-OS vendors instead of the citizen.
  #politics #privacy #security
• Age verification as mass surveillance infrastructure (Apr 26, 2026)
  Findings from monitoring age-verification rollouts: the systems being deployed function more like population-scale identity registers than the targeted controls they're sold as.
  #essays #politics #privacy
• The bromine chokepoint (Apr 26, 2026)
  How the world's memory chip supply quietly depends on a single Israeli plant for high-purity bromine, and what would happen if it stopped.
  #essays #politics
• Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't (Apr 26, 2026)
  The free-market story the U.S. tells itself about ISPs falls apart against the public-utility infrastructure that actually delivers bandwidth elsewhere.
  #essays #politics
• Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI (Apr 26, 2026)
  Atlassian flips the default for customer data to opt-in for AI training. The change is the kind of policy move that previously required, at minimum, an email.
  #ai #news #politics #privacy
• LOTTOCRACY: Democracy Without Elections (Dec 30, 2025)
  The case for sortition — replacing elections with randomly selected citizen assemblies.
  #politics

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