The fourth amendment used to apply to hotel rooms, but there’s a rarely discussed detail – “unless they tell you otherwise”, even if it’s in tiny, tiny print on a website somewhere.

Used to be if law enforcement wanted to fingerprint you it took some effort – now they can do it with a smartphone. We’ve moved past national / citizen ID’s to biometrics on the street.

Cathy O’Neil gave a fantastic TED presentation about the use of algorithms to suppress citizens in ways most are not only unaware of, but can’t understand.

This is a non-technical presentation but applies to the reason this site exists; without perspective, what exactly are we resisting?