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• Victory! Supreme Court Says Fourth Amendment Applies to Cell Phone Tracking – Andrew Crocker and Jennifer Lynch (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
• Tech Companies Quietly Work with ICE as Border Crisis Persists – Ben Collins and Meghan Sullivan (NBC News)
• Amazon Workers to Jeff Bezos: Stop Weaponizing Our Tech – Maya Kosoff (Vanity Fair)
• The Decline and Fall of Entertainment Reporting – Scott Collins (Columbia Journalism Review)
• The End of All That's Good and Pure About the Internet – Rhett Jones (Gizmodo)
• How to ‘Fix’ Social Media Without Censorship – David Kaye (Cypress-Mail)

Victory! Supreme Court Says Fourth Amendment Applies to Cell Phone Tracking

By Andrew Crocker and Jennifer Lynch
June 22, 2018
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Police must now get a warrant before obtaining location information collected by cell providers like Sprint.

Tech Companies Quietly Work with ICE as Border Crisis Persists

By Ben Collins and Meghan Sullivan
June 20, 2018
NBC News

The contracts highlight how technology companies are putting their innovations to work with the U.S. government in ways that are often not visible to the public.

Amazon Workers to Jeff Bezos: Stop Weaponizing Our Tech

By Maya Kosoff
June 22, 2018
Vanity Fair

A growing tide of Silicon Valley workers are rebelling against their employers over practices they see as unethical.

The Decline and Fall of Entertainment Reporting

By Scott Collins
June 22, 2018
Columbia Journalism Review

Newsrooms are rushing to fill as much as space as possible with award-show piffle and other nonsense because it brings in ads.

The End of All That's Good and Pure About the Internet

By Rhett Jones
June 19, 2018
Gizmodo

The EU’s Legislative Committee voted to adopt sweeping measures that will upend the web in every way that we know it.

How to ‘Fix’ Social Media Without Censorship

By David Kaye
June 24, 2018
Cypress-Mail

Internet companies need to involve local communities in governing their platforms.