Techdirt: Facebook transparency report: lots of government surveillance, bad copyright takedown requests
More from Techdirt: FBI celebrates taking down “terrorist” who told undercover agent he couldn’t go through with an attack. Ed: The sheer desperation for terrorist convictions is pathetic.
Activist Post: NATO rolls out offensive cyberweapons
Popular Mechanics: The 2020 Olympics will be another glimpse into our surveillance-filled future
Washington Examiner: Appeals court says privacy group can’t challenge Trump voter fraud panel
Washington Post: Cities sue Defense Dept. over gun-check system failures
KATC: Police say surveillance boxes not linked to Homeland Security. Ed: More evidence for my belief that the trillion-dollar surveillance infrastructure, built upon the hysterical, post-9/11 fear of terrorism, will be turned entirely to monitoring every US citizen.
Reason: Chicago police union trying to stop new use-of-force policies
TheFreeThoughtProject: SWAT team raids wrong house, holds family at gunpoint–owner makes cops apologize on FB Live
NPR: ‘A hideous milestone in the 21st century’: Cholera cases in Yemen surpass 1 million
Bloomberg: This will be the year when the internet collides with reality
India Times: MIT shows how image recognition AI can be easily fooled by changing just a few pixels
Bloomberg: Russia plans national biometric database beginning next year
Daily Caller: Library of Congress will no longer archive every tweet
The State: Worried about your online privacy? So is SC Congressman Mark Sanford
High Times: Why smoking weed causes you to dream less
RCS: How Western activists prevent Africans from planting a life-saving fruit.
Singularity Hub: How a machine that can make anything would change everything
The Guardian: Former NASA biochemist: “I want to help humans genetically modify themselves”
