10 Sunday Reads – The Massive Image

• Our information isn’t protected. Resist giving it up at any time when you may. Retailers and rewards applications don’t truly have to scan a replica of your driver’s license, so don’t allow them to. Face the reality: We’ve misplaced the battle to guard our private info. The most recent high-profile information breach involving AT&T is yet one more reminder we’re at struggle with cybercriminals. (Washington Submit)

• Oil firms offered the general public on a pretend local weather answer — and swindled taxpayers out of billions: The fossil gas trade’s carbon seize bamboozle, defined. (Vox)

• Contained in the Secret Multimillion-Greenback Operation to Dismantle America’s Gun Legal guidelines: How did an undercover cop-turned-evangelical pastor grow to be the intermediary for a dark-money scheme to take down the nation’s firearm laws? (The Hint)

• The three Greatest Errors You Can Make With Your 401(ok): Here’s what consultants say are the most costly stumbles individuals make with their retirement financial savings accounts — and get again heading in the right direction. (New York Instances)

• OnlyFans’ porn juggernaut fueled by a deception. Many prime porn stars on OnlyFans rent ‘chatters’ to impersonate them on-line and entice subscribers into splurging on express content material. These impostors aren’t formally affiliated with OnlyFans however have introduced it riches – and new authorized threats. Some subscribers say the deception quantities to fraud. One shares his story of betrayal. (Reuters) see additionally TikTok Has a Nazi Drawback: Not solely is TikTok’s algorithm selling Neo-Nazi content material, extremist organizations are additionally utilizing the platform to recruit new members and encourage real-world motion. (Wired)

• Retailers Locked Up Their Merchandise—and Broke Procuring in America: CVS, Goal and different chains have barricaded every part from toiletries to cleansing provides. It’s backfired in virtually each approach. (Businessweek)

• When This Provide-Chain Important Goes Lacking, It’s Time to Carry within the ‘Pallet Detectives’ Picket pallets flip up inside houses, on roadsides and in bonfires. Monitoring them down is a full-time job; simply be careful for the canine. (Wall Road Journal)

• Responsible: Contained in the high-risk, historic prosecution of a college shooter’s dad and mom: A Submit reporter embedded with Michigan prosecutors as they pursued murder fees in opposition to Jennifer and James Crumbley, whose son killed 4 college students at Oxford Excessive. (Washington Submit)

• Luxurious Inheritor Alleges His $13 Billion Hermès Fortune Has Vanished: Descendant loses Swiss court docket case in opposition to ex-wealth supervisor Nicolas Puech accused Eric Freymond of ‘gigantic fraud’. (Bloomberg)

• A brief primer for understanding conservatives: Conservatives generally say complicated issues. I’m right here to assist with a brief, and sadly incomplete, primer on conserva-speak. (Kevin Drum)