02/28/18 Overnight Links

02/28/18 Overnight Links

New York Times: The sublime and scary future of cameras with AI brains

NPR: Supreme Court seems unconvinced of Microsoft’s argument to shield email data stored abroad

Fast Company: Google rejected 57% of 2.4 million “right to be forgotten” privacy requests

Gizmodo: A judge denied Facebook’s attempt to kill a privacy suit over biometric face prints

Daily Mail: Facebook posts new details about its facial recognition tech amid lawsuit that claims ‘face prints’ may violate users’ privacy

We’ve got our own troll farms too, and they’re just as dopey as Russia’s. Activist Post: State Department gets $40 million to fund new propaganda troll farm

Reuters: Google’s Clips camera is latest effort to bring AI into home gadgets

Inverse: China uses Big Data to target minority groups, says Human Rights Watch. Ed: The fundamental reason for governments’ interest in Big Data is population control.

Miami Herald: Miami’s airport adopts facial recognition technology as cure for wait timesEd: The Surveillance State is being sold, successfully, in the form of short-term, short-sighted benefits.

WND: Release the shooting surveillance video!  Ed: It is disturbing that the abundant video footage of the recent shooters (Vegas, Florida) has never been presented to the public in any form.

Politico: SessionsJustice Department watchdog investigating GOP Russia memo claims

TechCrunch: Warrantless surveillance law proves it’s time to take privacy into our own hands

Author: S. Smith