12/13/17 Overnight links

SFgate: “Verax”: dark picture of mass surveillance, whistle-blowers, drones, and war

ABC7news: San Mateo County ponders ban on killer robots

WhaTech: Facial recognition market worth $7.7 billion by 2022

The Inquisitr: Dragonfly Eye: AI machine can identify 2 billion people in seconds

findBIOMETRICS: NEC trains deep learning AI to focus

sUAS News: Facial recognition software for drones released by Face-Six

HuffPo: Welcome to the Surveillance State: China’s AI cameras see all

Bloomberg: Pentagon’s cloud transition under hush order from weapons buyer

Related from The Nation: The Pentagon doesn’t need more money

Mondaq: Two data breach bills introduced in US Senate

ACLU: NYC takes on algorithmic discrimination

The Business Journals: Biometric tracking brings security opportunities, privacy concerns

The American Conservative: Big Brother comes to the bathroom

The Wrap: Netflix says it’s really not creeping on you after it trolled users’ viewing habits on Twitter

Life Hacker: How to reclaim your digital privacy from online tracking

Newsmax: America no safer under mass surveillance

Forbes: Apple’s embarrassing attempt to rewrite iPhone X’s history

Counterpunch: History’s deadliest bombing campaign (the US bombing of North Korea between 1950 and 1953, which killed 2 million)

 

Author: S. Smith