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
