Naked Security: US gov’t says it can break your encryption without a court order

Daily Telegraph: Amazon’s data theft means it’s the real Big Brother

Ars Technica: Circuit breaker thieves shine light on sheriff’s use of facial recognition

Phys.org: Six ways (and counting) that big data systems are harming society

Quartz: AI is now so complex its creators can’t trust why it makes decisions

Telecoms: Passwords about to become a thing of the past

IB Times: Google DeepMind AI became greatest chessplayer on the planet in four hours, beating current reigning AI champion

Antiwar.com: Trump tells Saudis to end Yemen blockade

Motherboard: You can now snort cannabis with new nasal spray

EnGadget: White House lets NSA’s warrantless surveillance continue until April

The Register: EU data protection groups: fix privacy shield or face lawsuit

TNW: Apple claims its data-gathering method doesn’t invade your privacy…much

Financial Times: Facebook privacy activist launches NGO to fund data lawsuits

Axios: Uber paid 20-year-old hacker to destroy data breach information

EFF: Government documents show FBI cleared filmmaker Laura Poitras after six-year investigation

Techdirt: The strange fight over who should take John Conyers spot atop the Judiciary Committee

HuffPo: Are LinkNYC kiosks surveillance devices? 

HowToGeek: Smartphone keyboards are a privacy nightmare

Fortune: Tired of being tracked online? Try Ghostery’s new AI tool

International Business Times: Your geolocation data is already for sale

GovTech: US Army turns to civilian recruits under new cyberprogram

Daily Press: From a cashless society to biometric surveillance: a terror-era to come?

Activist Post: TSA PreCheck probably a guise for mass collection of biometric data