Getting over Privacy - Discusses the currently controversial idea that privacy might be incompatible with technological progress, and whether privacy is a strategy rather than a core value - My initial reaction to the idea is that no privacy might be very dangerous in ways we can not know until it is too late, it could be like closing a door that you can't open again, you'd want to be really sure there wasn't something fundamental to how humans are that wasn't on the other side of the door continuations.com #

‘Sophisticated state actor’ hacks Australia’s political parties months before election theverge.com #

Uganda loses 5 million internet users as a result of Social Media Tax thenextweb.com #

UK parliament calls for antitrust, data abuse probe of Facebook - “Companies like Facebook should not be allowed to behave like ‘digital gangsters’ in the online world, considering themselves to be ahead of and beyond the law” techcrunch.com #

UK says Huawei is manageable risk to 5G - Huawei are turning the situation into a feature which illustrates that they are missing the point of the concern - “Some say that because these countries are using Huawei gear, it makes it harder for US agencies to obtain these countries’ data” ft.com #

How the US has hidden its empire - This is a really great piece of journalism, well written and informative, looks at an aspect of the modern USA that is not talked about, I knew there were a lot of US military bases, I had no idea the USA had so many foreign territories - It makes sense, with so many foreign nationals living in the US they are going to want to have a presence in other territories themselves theguardian.com #

Brexit news latest - Nigel Farage claims 100,000 people have signed up to new Brexit Party standard.co.uk #

Incredible free museums around the world travelettes.net #

I Think I’ve Identified Email’s Fundamental Flaw - A short exploration of emails features, highlighting the subtleties of software design thecut.com #