Thursday news and commentary

Anti-surveillance clothing line designed to confuse facial recognition technology.  Patterns on the clothing appears to facial recognition tech as thousands of faces, overwhelming the computer program.

California’s marijuana is more profitable than the next five largest crops combined.  Also, the legal marijuana industry is set to explode in growth in 2017.

Wikileaks offers $20,000 reward for info relating to the Obama admin’s destruction of “significant” records

Obama sends 3,600 tanks to Russian border.  Needless aggressive move designed to provoke Russia into a first strike.  Putin, however, seems to be the adult in the room in dealing with the outgoing admin.

Philippine drug war is the bloodiest ever waged . Duterte apparently adores the bloodbath he launched in June, which has led to the murders of 6,000.

There’s little reason to be optimistic about Trump and privacy, as Lucy Steigerwald explains.

Mandatory patriotism is automatically rendered meaningless

Defense Dept. really doesn’t like whistleblowers, and will retaliate against them, new investigation finds

Oklahoma gets Real ID extension through June 2017

 

Author: S. Smith