Washington Times: House announces revised bill to continue top foreign surveillance program

The Hill: It’s too easy for government to invade privacy in the name of security

And more coverage of the upcoming Supreme Court decision from The Guardian: The future of American privacy rights will be defined this year

Center for Research on Globalization: Lawsuit aims to uncover how government surveils journalists, targets them with surveillance

Law.com: The impact of the surge of biometric data privacy lawsuits against employers

Bloomberg: Google sued over privacy on behalf of 5 million iPhone users

New York Post: NYPD ignoring court order on Black Lives Matter surveillance

STRATFOR: The surveillance operative lurking in the living room(This is why I prefer my appliances to not have access to the internet)

Jurist: Face the Facts: Facial Recognition Software Should be Strictly Monitored

Herald Keeper: Homeland Security surveillance camera market expected to grow $10 billion over next five years

Deccan Chronicle: US sold $38 billion in military equipment to the world in 2017

ABC News: 801 civilians killed in coalition airstrikes against ISIS

Daily Telegraph: China’s AI pursuit set to alter future economic and military balance of power: report

GlobeNewsWire: TRENDnet launches surveillance camera disguised as ordinary lightbulb

The Psychedelic Renaissance, Awakening, it’s a phenomenon that clearly needs a name.

Vice: Why it feels like you can communicate with nature on LSD

Motherboard: The psychologist leading the psychedelic research revolution

TNW: How a little bit of drugs can make your boss a better boss

CBS San Francisco: California mayoral candidate plans to legalize magic mushrooms

California’s marijuana industry may be in deep trouble

Study: Medical marijuana an alternative to opioids

Russia number 1 in facial recognition, according to DC spycraft techies

Apple’s Face ID got fooled by a 3D-printed face mask

Canadian court rules that spy agencies can continue warrantless cellphone surveillance

NSA’s Ragtime program spied on Americans’ data

Pentagon admits there are nearly 9,000 troops in Iraq

More than 60% of opioid overdose victims were taking the pills for chronic pain

Google AI lets users know about shoulder surfers

The AI arms race may be more dangerous than you think

Army spent $100 million on intelligence system it never used, NSA leak says

The U.S. government says it has the right to track cellphone users’ every movement 

Of course they would do this, just like Real ID: Senate intel chief sees surveillance powers hidden within must-pass legislation

China is a perfect illustration of the real reason for total surveillance: China to triple surveillance cameras by 2020

New details of NSA’s Ragtime program appear in leaked files

Pentagon accused of blocking report on child sex abuse by Afghan allies

Pentagon exposes top secret classified info to public internet

Imgur breach exposes 1.7 million users

Some real talk: The shitshow the NSA has become-another massive leak

They’ll never learn: CIA to continue cloud push in the name of national security

Classified Army and NSA data was stored on unprotected server

CIA and NSA codes are on the web, and the leakers could be in the agencies

Navy officer tried to use the NSA to tap her boyfriend’s son’s phone

Arizona’s facial recognition use worries privacy advocates

Trump administration wants to track the Facebook feeds of foreign visitors

New NSA leak exposes Red Disk, the Army’s failed intelligence system

Security firm was front for advanced Chinese hacking operation, Feds say

Pentagon is downplaying the number of troops in Iraq and Syria: Report

China racing for AI military edge over US: Report

Internet censorship: It’s on the rise and Silicon Valley is helping it along

Thieves filmed stealing Mercedes by hacking keyless entry system

Here are the NSA’s internal grammar advice columns

The Catch-22 that keeps many vets from getting help

Alcohol or cannabis? Science finally reveals which is more harmful

Genetically engineered mosquitoes to be released in 20 states

NYT: How a Radio Shack robbery could spur a new era of digital privacy

The Guardian: Supreme Court cellphone case puts free speech–not just privacy–at risk

Slate: Courts can’t keep up with police location-tracking technology

ACLU: Trump’s new cybersecurity rules are better than Obama’s

Phys.org: How websites watch your every move and ignore your privacy settings

Getting them used to the Surveillance State at an early age: Experts warn against sinister Santa spy cam designed to make children ‘behave perfectly’

Metro: Why cannabis oil is better than prescription painkillers

Motley Fool: Deal-making in cannabis industry hits all-time high

Pacific Standard: How California is leading the way on marijuana criminal justice reform

New Republic: The Promise of Legal Pot

Washington Post: The Supreme Court’s privacy precedent is outdated

More on the Fourth Amendment and SCOTUS: Cops, Cellphones, and Privacy at the Supreme Court

ABC Online: Young people do care about privacy, despite what Zuckerberg and Brandis say

BoingBoing: Reverse-engineering a connected Furby toy, revealing its disturbing security defects

CNBC: Veterans, grappling with PTSD, are helping to boost public support for medical marijuana

Daily Beast: Could LSD be the right prescription for the terminally ill?

The Hill: Clock ticking down on NSA surveillance powers

And, in regards to NSA surveillance renewal, Antiwar.com asks, will reforms happen?

Activist Post: 7 lies statists want you to believe

High Times: Why are teachers and school officials acting like drug cops?

The Guardian: The trouble with bitcoin and big data is the huge energy bill

Does cellphone-sweeping ‘Stingray’ go too far?

The federal gov’t already broke its medical marijuana promise

Magic mushrooms next to be decriminalized in California?

FBI receives record number of background check requests for guns on Black Friday

UK politician calls for legalization of marijuana, admits to drinking cannabis tea

LA Times: How your data are shared and sold could be California’s marquee ballot battle in 2018

Activist Post: Macy’s parade security used to promote Surveillance State

The curious case of the murdered Baltimore officer gets even curiouser

Remembering the legacy of communism: Birthday of the bloodbath

• All that data is worth a fortune, of course it will be sold: Coalition could allow firms to buy access to facial recognition data
• Surrender: We’ve lost our privacy in an information swamp: “The rule: What had seemed private or sure to be forgotten is public and prone to be surfaced eventually. And this information speaks volumes — and adds up to more than the evident sum of its parts.Facebook knows so much about its users, from so many secret sources of information, that, as Kashmir Hill has been reporting at Gizmodo, it’s suggested to users as “people you may know” one-night stands, a child to a sperm donor, a psychiatrist’s patients to each other, and on and on. Who knows what the other keepers of our secrets — the ones who aren’t trying to sell us on their services — are doing with them in this furiously evolving internet of things that encompasses the Amazon Echo in your house, drones that fly in swarms and trillions of connected sensors linking the physical and virtual worlds?”
• Putin signs anti-foreign media law after RT forced to register as a foreign agent.  Did the BBC register too?
• Apple vs. FBI: 2 year old encryption debate heats up again
• Are Robots Better Pilots?
• Why you may want to swap your benzos for medical cannabis
• Will meth cause the next American drug crisis?
• Scientists have built a “hallucination machine” for drug-free brain trips