“The queen below” and “The gravity between us”

The Cook County Board of Commissioners Technology Committee soon will consider a proposal from the Sheriff’s Office to obtain AI video surveillance software known as Briefcam for monitoring people…

The club sends members titles that have been pulled from public library shelves. It joins a widespread fight against censorship across North America.

Get to know the National Book Rating Index, BookLens, RatedBooks, and more tools being used to ban books across US schools and libraries.

If you spend your whole life despising the rich, the greatest tax will be on your soul.

Digital surveillance does much more than steal data. It inflicts deep human wounds; it stops people from safely developing and expressing their identities, breeds trauma that can last for generations,...

I'm handing over to my occasional guest reviewer today. Mr Portobello Book Blog is a big fan of political thrillers and enjoyed Robert Peston's previous novels in this series and was keen to read The Kill Switch. My thanks to Tracy at Compulsive Readers for the opportunity to take part in the book tour and to the publisher Zaffre for providing a review copy of the book.

The LAPD, one of Flock's biggest government customers, is ending its contract with the company citing civil liberties concerns.

A newly released surveillance video casts doubt on the government's account of a January ICE shooting in Minneapolis, leading to dropped charges and potential perjury investigations.

Republican Senators have introduced a nationwide book ban bill in the Senate, S. 4925 and it's a warning of their summer plans.

Proposed censorship measures in several states could deny your right to read some books in our Nation's libraries and lead to librarians facing criminal charges for the books on the shelves.

The word of the year for US libraries, whether public, school, or academic, is rough.

And its president resigns, claiming it’s ‘unethical’ even to criticize BDS as discriminatory.

UNITED NATIONS, July 10 (IPS) - Renewed attacks on commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz have intensified concerns over global energy markets along with supply chain disruptions, as the United Nations calls for an end to escalating hostilities within the Persian Gulf.