The Illinois Keep Internet Devices Safe Act would have empowered average people to sue big companies for recording them without consent, but industry association lobbying defanged it. Source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywyzm5/big-tech-lobbying-gutted-a-bill-that-would-ban-recording-you-without-consent…
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How Amazon Helped Cops Set Up a Package Theft Sting Operation
Internal documents obtained by Motherboard detail the planning of an anti-package theft operation that used fake Amazon boxes rigged with GPS location trackers. 
If You Don’t Want to Live On This Planet Anymore, Terraforming Mars Is the Perfect Board Game
Terraforming Mars is a board game about, uh, terraforming Mars. It has great reviews on Amazon, an 8.4 rating on Board Game Geek, and is down to its best price since last April. If you have some family time to kill over the next few weeks, each game should last you a couple of hours… Continue reading If You Don’t Want to Live On This Planet Anymore, Terraforming Mars Is the Perfect Board Game
Add the Definitive Cowboy Bebop Box Set To Your Collection For $55
Amazon’s new exclusive Cowboy Bebop box set is the ultimate gift for the anime fan in your life (even if that anime fan is, uh, you), and you can get it for $55 right now on Amazon, the best price they’ve ever listed outside of the holiday season. Read more… Source: https://kinjadeals.theinventory.com/save-10-on-the-definitive-cowboy-bebop-box-set-1788658647
App Developers Left 540 Million Facebook Users’ Records on the Public Internet
For your regular reminder that developers across the world sometimes have real trouble putting any sort of protection on their databases, third party apps left Facebook user data exposed to the open internet, according to cybersecurity firm UpGuard. Bloomberg was first to report the news. The data exposures do not come from Facebook itself, but… Continue reading App Developers Left 540 Million Facebook Users’ Records on the Public Internet