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    • Companies are adjusting premiums and policies for life, car, and home insurance based on new forms of surveillance enabled by tech to collect and analyze data (Sarah Jeong/New York Times)

    Sarah Jeong / New York Times: Companies are adjusting premiums and policies for life, car, and home insurance based on new forms of surveillance enabled by tech to collect and analyze data  —  Some technologies are better left in the laboratory.  —  Ms. Jeong is a member of the editorial board. Companies are adjusting premiums

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    • Sources: Apple is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to secure new games for its Arcade subscription service, with total budget likely to exceed $500M (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

    Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Sources: Apple is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to secure new games for its Arcade subscription service, with total budget likely to exceed $500M  —  Apple is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to secure new video games for its forthcoming Arcade subscription service … Sources: Apple is spending

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    • An Illinois bill for banning IoT devices from collecting audio without owners' consent was substantially defanged after lobbying by the Internet Association (Sean Gallagher/Ars Technica)

    Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: An Illinois bill for banning IoT devices from collecting audio without owners’ consent was substantially defanged after lobbying by the Internet Association  —  Lobbyists: Bill would punish even if failure to disclose was “accidental.”  —  On April 10, the Illinois State Senate passed the … An Illinois bill for banning

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    • Since 2011, a database error left more than 150,000+ young people off the jury rolls in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana (Alan Blinder/New York Times)

    Alan Blinder / New York Times: Since 2011, a database error left more than 150,000+ young people off the jury rolls in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana  —  BATON ROUGE, La. — The Louisianans who were summoned to decide whether Grover Cannon killed a police officer were Asian, black, Hispanic and white. Since 2011, a

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    • Sources: Amazon has entered into discussions to launch a free, ad-supported music service, offering a limited catalog, as early as next week (Hannah Karp/Billboard)

    Hannah Karp / Billboard: Sources: Amazon has entered into discussions to launch a free, ad-supported music service, offering a limited catalog, as early as next week  —  “Alexa, play free music.”  —  Amazon has entered into discussions to launch a free, ad-supported music service, sources familiar with the plan tell Billboard … Sources: Amazon has

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    • Interview with RIM cofounder Jim Balsillie about his advocacy against the rise of surveillance capitalism in Canada and the Sidewalk Toronto smart city project (Brian J. Barth/The Walrus)

    Brian J. Barth / The Walrus: Interview with RIM cofounder Jim Balsillie about his advocacy against the rise of surveillance capitalism in Canada and the Sidewalk Toronto smart city project  —  The entrepreneur who made billions putting BlackBerrys into pockets is now sounding the alarm about Big Tech’s creep toward surveillance capitalism Interview with RIM

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