In Michigan, a small liberal-arts college is requiring students to install an app called Aura, which tracks their location in real time, before they come to campus. Oakland University, also in Michigan, announced a mandatory wearable that would track symptoms, but, facing a student-led petition, then said it would be optional.

Exposure Notifications is a protocol developed by Apple and Google for facilitating COVID-19 contact tracing on mobile phones by exchanging codes with nearby phones over Bluetooth, implemented within the Android and iOS operating systems, now available here in Toronto.

Wait – phones? Android and iOS only? Can’t my Debian laptop participate? It has a recent Bluetooth chip. What about phones running GNU/Linux distributions like the PinePhone or Librem 5?

"Ankara is now facing off with Moscow in three different theatres: the two countries support opposite sides in Syria, Libya and now Nagorno-Karabakh."

Students say that monitoring programs like Proctorio and ExamSoft discourage them in the moments they’re trying to prove themselves.

An interview with Jamie McCallum

We’re working longer hours than in decades. But we don't have to. We deserve a more democratic economy in which we have the free time to develop our talents, hang out with friends and family, and do whatever else we please.