Vox: The Golden State Killer case shows how swiftly we’re losing genetic privacy
ZDnet: Tech giants hit by NSA spying slam encryption backdoors
Gizmodo: Chicago advances bill allowing police drones to surveil protestors
DW: Whistleblower Chelsea Manning in Berlin warns over Google, Facebook privacy
Washington Examiner: Alan Dershowitz: Michael Cohen wiretap shows the US is becoming a surveillance state
The Federalist: Google’s insane campus is what happens when you politicize everything
Reason: Maine legislators override governor’s veto of marijuana legalization
FFF: The Bundy Ranch case explains Westerner’s distrust of Washington
Of course he does: NDTV: Bill Gates praises Aadhaar, says “it doesn’t pose any privacy issue” Ed: Gotta love that predictable elitist condescension in their “I know what’s best for the Third World” attitude. It shapes every aspect of his vanity-flattering, “humanitarian” efforts in countries that do not want nor need it. What the Third World needs most is protection from these First World humanitarians.
Interestingly, it’s the elites that buy into the overpopulation myth, and there have been quite a few well-written pieces coming out in recent days as it becomes obvious that the Avenger’s Thanos is motivated by the fear of overpopulation. Here is one such piece from National Review: Infinity War: Thanos plans to cull humans, echoing Paul and Anne Erlich
Wall Street Journal: The new science of psychedelics
Nature: The ethics of experimenting with human brain tissue Ed: Could we soon create a brain in a vat that contemplates whether it’s a brain in a vat?
