The Hill: Selling you out: Mass public surveillance for corporate gain

Ars Technica: U.S. spy lab hopes to geotag every outdoor photo on social media

Nextgov: Walmart files patent for autonomous robot bees

The Intercept: How the New York Times is making war with Iran more likely

Techdirt: Leaked documents expose NYPD’s long-running lack of officer discipline

The American Conservative: Rand Paul: Why I’ll fight Gina Haspel and Mike Pompeo nominations

Reason: Florida may be about to launch the most ambitious criminal justice transparency project in the U.S.

Activist Post: Why we don’t need the government to protect us from “polarizing” internet speech

High Times: This state just shut down 40 medical marijuana dispensaries

Gizmodo: Looks like someone hid a weed joke on Home Depot’s website

Engadget: Inside Google’s plan to build a smart neighborhood in Toronto

The Verge: China will ban people with poor ‘social credit’ from planes and trains

NPR: Facial scanning now arriving at U.S. airports

Futurism: Cities’ “smart” LED streetlights may be secretly watching over you

Arkansas Times: ACLU objects to Magnolia schools surveillance system

CPO Mag: Predictive policing raises important privacy and human rights concerns

National Review: FBI recommends firing former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe

The American Conservative: Vietnam: A war on civilians

Reason: Three heroes at My Lai

CNBC: How blockchain could save federal agencies billions

High Times: Research reveals link between coffee, cannabis, and brain function

HowStuffWorks: Breaking the cycle of addiction with psychedelic hallucinogens

To prevent leaks, of course.

The Guardian: ‘They’ll squash you like a bug’: how Silicon Valley keeps a lid on leakers

: ““It’s horrifying how much they know,” he told the Guardian, on the condition of anonymity. “You go into Facebook and it has this warm, fuzzy feeling of ‘we’re changing the world’ and ‘we care about things’. But you get on their bad side and all of a sudden you are face to face with [Facebook CEO] Mark Zuckerberg’s secret police.”

The public image of Silicon Valley’s tech giants is all colourful bicycles, ping-pong tables, beanbags and free food, but behind the cartoonish facade is a ruthless code of secrecy. They rely on a combination of Kool-Aid, digital and physical surveillance, legal threats and restricted stock units to prevent and detect intellectual property theft and other criminal activity. However, those same tools are also used to catch employees and contractors who talk publicly, even if it’s about their working conditions, misconduct or cultural challenges within the company.”

The Verge: New Orleans ends its Palantir predictive policing program Ed: Right after it became public knowledge, how about that.

NPR: Critics concerned about privacy issues as biometric scanning increases

Gizmodo: Congress could sneak a bill threatening global privacy into law

Washington Post: Feinstein calls on CIA to declassify documents detailing Haspel’s ties to torture program

The Hill: FBI supervisor warned Comey in 2014 that warrantless surveillance program was ineffective

Bloomberg: Google resists becoming digital ‘town square’ in censorship spat

Techdirt: Censorship creep is setting in as social media companies try to stay ahead of European lawmakers

Washington Examiner: NSA nominee Paul Nakasone: Smartphone tracking software is a privacy, intel threat

The Hill: Tech companies push back against internet watchdog’s new privacy rules

The Independent: Florida school shooting surveillance video shows officer Scot Peterson standing outside as massacre takes place

National Review: Another terrible Florida case illustrates the need for armed self-defense

The Intercept: Military brass tells Congress it has no idea what Saudi Arabia is doing with U.S. bombs in Yemen

The New Yorker: Mike Pompeo, the spymaster who couldn’t stay in his lane

US News: San Francisco embraces Amsterdam-style marijuana lounges

RealClearScience: When an English Lit major tried to school Isaac Asimov

New York Times: Pentagon wants Silicon Valley’s help on A.I.

The Intercept: Washington breaks out the “just following orders” Nazi defense for CIA Director-designate Gina Haspel

East Bay Express: Berkeley council approves surveillance technology oversight board

Newsweek: Is Silicon Valley silencing conservatives on social media?

CATO: Facebook and the future of free speech

Jacobin: The high-tech poorhouse: “We live in what legal scholar Frank Pasquale has called a “scored society.” Corporations and governments collect unprecedented amounts of data about us — our habits, our histories, our beliefs, our desires, our social networks. Machine learning algorithmsparse that data to assess our worthiness for public benefits, for jobs, for loans, for insurance, and for suspicion in the criminal justice system.

The rich are not exempt from this reality, but it’s the poor and working class who are most endangered by it. Predictive policing algorithmslaunder racial bias and reproduce inequality. Reputational scores based on historical data reinforce the lopsided structure of American society, further advantaging the already advantaged and marginalizing the marginalized.”

NextGov: 5 things you may have missed in the Homeland Security reauthorization bill

CATO: Risky Business: The role of arms sales in U.S. foreign policy

The American Conservative: The Navy wants $1.5 billion in additional goodies. We want an audit.

The Verge: Chelsea Manning thinks we need to remake the internet

GEORGE WILL: The real Down Syndrome ‘problem’

Gizmodo: DARPA is funding time crystal research

Gizmodo: Report: Madison Square Garden has secretly been using facial recognition tech

ScienceMag: A revered rocket scientist set in motion China’s mass surveillance of its citizens

The Verge: Facebook bans “far-right” group Britain First for “inciting hatred against minorities”

Also The Verge: YouTube will begin adding Wikipedia information to videos about conspiracies

Techdirt: Trump administration wants to start sending Secret Service agents to polling stations

The Guardian: England’s May expels 23 Russian diplomats in response to spy poisoning

Vox: How America’s prisons are fueling the opioid epidemic

Libertarian Institute: The war on opioids has become a war on patients

SingularityHub: What if the AI revolution is neither Utopia nor Apocalypse, but something in between?

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

The Hill: Judge orders release of surveillance footage from Florida school shooting

The Guardian: Questions for the TSA after reports of laptop and phone searches on domestic flights

The Verge: Chinese police are expanding facial recognition sunglasses program

The Hill: Weakening encryption is no solution to election hacking

The American Conservative: Baltimore’s failed surveillance regime. “Everything from red-light cameras to a Cessna plane hasn’t made the city safer.”

Techdirt: Cop hits woman’s car at 94 MPH, killing her infant. Police arrest woman for negligent homicide.

BoingBoing: Undercover cop runs red light and tries to ticket driver who recorded it

Activist Post: Police warn reporters not to report news until cops give them permission…or face the consequences

Adweek: Why consumers are increasingly willing to trade privacy for convenience

LA Times: Artificial intelligence can transform industries, but California lawmakers are worried about your privacy

TruthOut: Washington state’s deep political and economic alliance with the Pentagon

The Federalist: Hillary unloads on Middle America, says ‘backwards’ Trump voters hate black people and women

National Review: Wakanda has the Right’s foreign policy debate

From Nixon to Trump: Five times the FBI went up against the president

FEE: Capitalism has shown itself to be the most feminist system: “So what has this technological advance managed? We might point to medicine as an example. Historic rates of death in childbirth were of the order of 1,000 to 2,000 per 100,000 live births. Today’s are in the 10 to 20 range. I think a reduction of two orders of magnitude is pretty good. But that’s not all. Back then a woman would spend her entire adult life pregnant or lactating: such were the child death rates that perhaps as many as 10 pregnancies were needed to ensure the prospect of grandchildren. We manage the same probability of continued family existence with a fertility rate of only two these days—meaning the reduction in risk for women is 500-fold…

…But the overarching change has been the elimination of muscle power in the paid labor market. Back before capitalism started to automate tasks what was really being hired was human grunt. Something which women’s’ musculature generally made them unsuitable for, so that the division of labor was routinely men doing the paid market work, and women the unpaid domestic labor. Once the machines were doing the hefting and hauling, those innate differences become ever less important. It is this, more than anything else, which has allowed the entry of women into paid work. And that, of course, led to economic freedom and liberty.”

Gizmodo: Dark matter may not solve this galactic mystery after all

NewsOK: Oklahoma City pays $18,000 to cover settlement of lawsuit over illegal police search

Business Insider: Beijing police are using facial-recognition glasses to identify car passengers and license plates

CityLab: Who’s in charge of the augmented city?

POGO: Pentagon to Congress: You can’t stop us from fueling Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen

The Verge: UK government delays roll-out of controversial age verification porn laws

Guardian: Destroying the notorious ‘Camp X-Ray’ at Guantanamo is a huge mistake

The National: Voice assistants only getting smarter as privacy concerns grow

GEORGE WILL: We’ve been in Afghanistan for 6,000 days. What are we doing?

BoingBoing: EFF awards the ‘Foilies’ to the government agencies with the worst transparency for 2018

National Review: Report: British police failed to stop child sex abuse ring over fears of racism accusations

The Intercept: “Rise and kill first” explores the corrupting effects of Israel’s assassination program

The Verge: Here come the $4,000 homes that can be printed in 24 hours

Singularity Hub: How will free energy affect our lives?