Pirate News: Keep Watch

Joe, Steve and James discuss the latest news that crossed our transom including a Tuesday hearing on various privacy bills, Mass. police skewing racial profiling stats, European Union Parliament votes down an awful surveillance bill and why we may finally have a Mass. data privacy bill.

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Links we mentioned:

• New flyers for Boston Anarchist Book Fair;
• Tuesday, 1pm, Joint Committee on the Judiciary Hearing;
• This Massachusetts police practice skews racial profiling stats;
• Meet the ‘SafetyStick,’ Somerville’s new robotic approach to doling out parking tickets;
• MAJOR PIRATES WIN: PARLIAMENT AGAINST #CHATCONTROL;
• As Musk endorses antisemitic conspiracy theory, X has been placing ads for Apple, Bravo, IBM, Oracle, and Xfinity next to pro-Nazi content;
• An Act to establish the Massachusetts data privacy protection act;
• U.S. Data Privacy Protection Laws: A Comprehensive Guide.

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