01/01/17 Overnight links

EFF: Communities from coast to coast fight for control over police surveillance

New York Times: How do you vote? 50 million Google images give a clue

Cointelegraph: Kidnapping of bitcoin exchange executive showed importance of financial privacy

Activist Post: Top 5 stories buried or deliberately ignored by mainstream media in 2017

Kansas City Star: These stories missed in 2017 will have a global impact

Techcrunch: Hyperscale data centers reached over 390 worldwide in 2017

Forbes: Big Burger is watching you, and other ways facial recognition software is entering food service

Interesting Engineering: Google’s new voice AI is hyper realistic

Popular Mechanics: This robot picks tomatoes better than you ever could

Futurism: Dark future: Here’s when we’ll have the autonomous guard dogs from Black Mirror

Gadgets Now: Phones set to get smarter in 2018 with futuristic tech

Zero Hedge: Why US foreign policy will re-ignite extremism in 2018

Also Zero Hedge: Police fatality rate drops to second lowest level in 50 years

Author: S. Smith