12/11/17 Morning links

Fox News: Rep. King seeks more surveillance after Port Authority bombing

Techdirt: Court hold NYPD in contempt for refusing to hand over documents related to Black Lives Matter surveillance

Also from Techdirt: FBI director complains about encryption, offers to sacrifice public safety in the interest of public safety

HuffPoUK: Surveillance Cities

WIRED: How email open tracking quietly took over the web

The News Lens: Reporters Without Borders condemns Western tech execs for China endorsement

Phys.org: Secret surveillance methods in the Digital Age–how to ensure human rights protection

Climate Home: ‘Tsunami of data’ could consume a fifth of global electricity by 2025

Tech Wire Asia: Digital privacy: Phantom.me helps users become invisible online

The Hill: Yes, the FBI is America’s Secret Police

24/7WallSt: Global spending on data security to top $96 billion in 2018

Military.com: Fort Bragg leaders respond to sexual assault data.  This data.

International Business Times: Why Bitcoin’s strength is also its biggest weakness

Gizmodo: How to keep your home wifi safe from hackers

MinuteHack: How to stop hackers from stealing your data

FEE: AIs won’t command us to obey.  They will seduce us.

The Conversation: Will artificial intelligence become conscious?

PLOSblog: Top 5 human evolution discoveries of 2017

Author: S. Smith