Google is collecting location data from phones without users’ permission

“Extreme vetting” is rebranded to the catchier “Visa Lifecycle Vetting”

Kim Dotcom to launch MegaNet to “replace” current internet

Pentagon prepares for drone wars of the future

Not sure this is the future I want: Welcome to 2030: I own nothing, I have no privacy…and life has never been better

Saudis to buy $7 billion in weapons from US for Yemen war

High-speed quantum encryption may help secure future internet

ProtonMail will use encryption to lock down your contacts list

The “unhackable” quantum messages that could stop cyber criminals’ super computers from stealing data

I’ve seen these, but only when it was too late lol: Algorithmically-generated Youtube horror cartoons turning childrens’ brains to mush

The Swiss cannabis farm aiming to supply Europe with legal weed

Cannabis expert believes 35 states will legalize weed by 2020

Bush-era attorney general warns against cannabis crackdown

Burgeoning marijuana industry has a growing need for scientists

Nevada’s September recreational marijuana sales top projections

Florida sued over medical marijuana implementation delays

How cannabis helps PTSD patients

We are entering a new age of cannabis and psychedelic use for wellness

Newsweek: How Jeff Sessions Plans to End Medical Marijuana Before the Year is Over

Will it replace fingerprint security?

NJ lawmakers want to ban drunken drone-flying

I see nothing good coming from drone tech, what with the flying machines become smaller and smaller and capable of performing increasingly greater tasks.

Supreme Court to weigh in on landmark cell phone privacy case

Privacy advocates want to revamp FISA

Judge who once ruled against NSA metadata program tosses lawsuit

Homeland Security deploys Stingray surveillance device hundreds of times per year

The opioid crisis is becoming the fentanyl crisis: 1800% rise in overdose deaths from the synthetic opioid

Death toll of Indonesian drug war continues to rise

Mexico homicides in 2017 surpass those from 2016

Drug War is fueling Mexico’s violence: Mexico is losing the drug war

Saudi Arabia continues to blockade Yemen’s ports, despite earlier pledge 

Pat Buchanan: The US-Saudi Starvation Blockade

America, smoking less but getting fatter

NYT: An American Spy Base Hidden in Australia’s Outback

Elon Musk: AI will destroy mankind

Water companies still using divining rods

US planned phony Soviet attacks to provide pretext for strike against Russia

Errorless artificial intelligence spying on us rather than human beings, that is.

NSA internet surveillance under 702 has no place in a free society.

The privacy threat from Big Tech

Plant Spies: DARPA’s plan to create organic surveillance sensors

Wireless surveillance systems market to expand significantly by 2024

Privacy case before the Supreme Court is about press freedom, too

NSA section 702 Q&A glosses over incidental collection problems, domestic surveillance

121 pieces of malware flagged on NSA employee’s home computer

US Sleepwalking into Renewing Vast NSA Surveillance Law

BoingBoing: Uber admits it breached 57,000,000 accounts, then bribed the hackers to cover it up, now they’re paying a top ex-NSA lawyer to teach them transparency

New NSA breach “worse than Snowden”

Facial recognition tech coming to an airport near you

Warns privacy group.