Reason: Europe’s new data privacy rules will make Facebook and Google more powerful

Gizmodo: The LAPD used Palantir tech to predict and surveil “probable offenders”

Techdirt: Podcast: How the courts created the Surveillance State

City Lab: The metro stations of Sao Paulo that read your face

Ars Technica: How a suspected drug dealer’s traffic stop led to a crucial privacy case

National Interest Online: China’s surveillance system can scan population in 1 second

High Times: FDA-approved study of marijuana for vets with PTSD begins phase 2

Reason: Illinois police dog trainer warns: We may euthanize our drug dogs if you legalize weed Ed: The drug war is a jobs program and an excuse to use spy tech on the innocent, and this parasite would most certainly be out of a job if marijuana were to be legalized.

The Intercept: Trump violates Iran nuclear deal–ignoring US and Israeli generals who support it

Cato: Kill the Iran deal, open Pandora’s Box

The American Conservative: Gina Haspel and how torture deceived us into Iraq

KIRIAKOU: Gina Haspel debate highlights America’s soul sickness

Futurism: Encrypted genomic data means people can participate in research without sacrificing privacy

FEE: A lot of people agree with a supervillian about population

Engadget: Pretty sure Google’s talking AI just beat a Turing test

Aeon: The techno dystopia of a Slovenian glass factory is a timeless mashup of people and machines