The Verge: The NSA’s voice-recognition system raises hard questions for Echo and Google Home
The Intercept: Top Republican warns that under new spending bill “the intelligence community could expend funds as it sees fit”
and Techdirt: Spending bill would give Administration direct control of surveillance spending
Activist Post: Congress quietly pushing bill to require national biometric ID for all Americans
Zero Hedge: Paul Craig Roberts: The NSA is a blackmail agency
Reason: Suspicionless immigration bus sweep caught on video
Richmond-Times Dispatch: If you regulate free speech, who decides what is acceptable?
