Overnight links

ACLU: New surveillance bill would dramatically expand NSA powers

…and more from EFF: House Intelligence Committee’s NSA surveillance bill contains new threats and old 

Washington Post: Apple is sharing your face with apps. That’s a new privacy worry.

The Independent: Snooper’s Charter restrictions proposed by government after EU court rules data collection powers illegal

The Mac Observer: iPhone privacy for the paranoid: what you can do

Bloomberg: Facebook judge frowns on bid to toss biometric face print suit

Telecompetitor: Being the product for internet giants raises privacy concerns for consumers

Business News Daily: Cybersecurity and privacy predictions for 2018

FiveThirtyEight: Criminologists are asking Jeff Sessions to release FBI crime data

CBS News: Pentagon decides not to ban the use of cluster bombs

The Globe and Mail: Canada’s spy agencies casting wider net on citizen’s electronic data: report

Cannabis Now: The racial bias of drug-sniffing police dogs

Telesur: ‘Ethnic bomb’ feared as US Air Force confirms collection of Russian DNA

 

Author: S. Smith