The Guardian: UK surveillance technology helping Duterte’s human rights crackdown

Motherboard: ACLU is suing the government for info about TSA device searches

New York Times: Mike Pompeo, a hawk who pleased the President, moves from spying to diplomacy

Daily Beast: Gina Haspel, Trump’s CIA pick, ran a laboratory for torture

Slate: Sanctuary cities are inadvertently handing ICE a map through license-plate data

ACLU: The CLOUD Act is a dangerous piece of legislation for targets of government oppression

EFF: EFF and 23 other groups tell Congress to oppose CLOUD Act

Techdirt: Iowa town threatens critical resident with lawsuit, gets sued by ACLU instead

The Verge: Chelsea Manning: ‘Software developers should have a code of ethics’

VietnamPlus: US hands over six surveillance drones to Philippines

Inverse: UN blames Facebook for ethnic cleansing, social media platform offers no new answers

TechRepublic: ‘Severe’ security flaws can turn popular smart cameras into spying tools

CNET: Chinese police literally use ‘Skynet’ surveillance system

Motherboard: The military-industrial complex roots of GPS

Ars Technica: TSA accused of searching domestic travelers’ devices with no warrant

Associated Press: U.S. sets new record for censoring, withholding gov’t files

Sports Illustrated: Report: Madison Square Gardens using facial recognition on fans

Fortune: An American university is spying on students to predict dropouts. Here’s what that says about Big Data in the U.S.

Winston-Salem Journal: AP investigation: US military overlooks sex abuse among kids on base

Gizmodo: U.S. Border Patrol releases propaganda video praising Trump’s border wall

New York Times: The one thing that protects a laptop after it’s been stolen

ZeroHedge: U.S. spy drone spotted near Crimea after $47 million defense purchase by Ukraine: Report

Washington Examiner: After Parkland, a surge in make-your-own AR-15 rifles

National Review: Russia Collusion: Hillary Clinton, DNC, and FBI are the real stars

The Federalist: If backchannels with Russia are considered nefarious, say hello to war

CatchNews: Police without policemen: Dubai to use advanced technology for better surveillance

FEE: Entitlements: The “most predictable economic crisis in history”

SHELDON RICHMAN: Trade wars don’t put Americans first

CHRIS HEDGES: The empty piety of the American Press

Big Think: This black hole gives you an infinite number of futures