Washington Post: Convicted of a marijuana crime in California? It might go away, thanks to legal pot. Ed: I always assumed this would be an automatic order of business once a state legalized pot, basically expunging the criminal record of every single victim of pot prohibition and giving them their lives back.
Bitcoinist: EU’s Bitcoin database could make privacy a thing of the past
Financial Times: German cartel office warns Facebook over personal data collection
Related from WaPo: Facebook wants your face data–in the name of privacy, it says
The Moscow Times: Russia to grant police access to bank customers’ biometric data
Planet Biometrics: Germany mulls facial recognition at all train stations
TechRepublic: MIT’s automated machine learning works 100x faster than human data scientists
Wired UK: Curbing your data addiction will help you make better decisions
Quartz: This year the world woke up to the society-shifting power of artificial intelligence
AP: Killings of women soared in the last decade amid Mexico’s Drug War
