Techdirt: DHS documents show harassment and intrusive device searches are a common occurrence at US borders
National Herald India: Will 2018 be the year of Aadhaar-linked deaths?
Planet Biometrics: Ukraine starts collecting biometric data at the border
The Register: UK security chief: how about a tax for tech firms that are ‘uncooperative’ on terror content?
WESA: Pittsburg readies expansion of camera, gunshot surveillance city-wide. Coming to your city, unless you stop it
IB Times UK: NSA leaker Edward Snowden speaks out as Iran silences dissent on the internet
Silicon UK: China’s WeChat denies storing users’ data after spying claims
STAT: The statistics can’t capture the opioid epidemic’s impact on children
Gizmodo: In 2018, we will CRISPR human beings
RT: Bitcoin billionaires and privacy crusaders: Tech leaders to watch in 2018
Coindesk: Aim, fire: bulletproofs is a breakthrough for privacy on the blockchain
InterAksyon: Silicon Valley keeps trends as artificial intelligence goes mainstream
Antiwar.com: Iranian protesters raise stakes, attack police stations
Huffington Post: The ‘Merchants of Death’ survive and prosper. First-World global weapons dealers to Third World tyrants now call themselves ‘defense contractors’.
The Hill: A year later, an investigation in search of a crime
Well this hits close to home: New York Post: Why poop toys for kids are flying off the shelf. Ed: Parents know why their kids love this stuff, and why we buy them: they’re hilarious, and watching a kid’s raw, feral delight at these toys is too good not to buy. Basically, no other toy elicits a reaction anywhere near the level that these do.
More from New York Post: The 5 craziest things we learned about the universe in 2017
I now support GMOs FirstPost: No more chocolate by 2050? Scientists say fragile cocoa plant likely to be victim of global warming
LA Times: Trump’s border wall through the eyes of an architecture critic
Counterpunch: Guantanamo remains a global symbol of injustice
