05/22/18 Overnight Links

05/22/18 Overnight Links

BoingBoing: New York high school will use CCTV and facial recognition to enforce discipline

The Hill: TSA creates secret watch list of people who may be “unruly” Ed: Meaning any behavior in the airport not indicative of a cowed peon probably. Never should’ve given those idiots badges, even if they’re fake.

Slate: The LocationSmart scandal is bigger than Cambridge Analytica. Here’s why no one is talking about it.

Gizmodo: The Pentagon’s controversial drone AI-imaging project extends beyond Google

The Hill: Big Tech vacuums up our kids’ data, risking their privacy and mental health

High Times: De Blasio orders NYPD to stop arresting people for smoking weed

Reason: NYPD union rep complains that he’s increasingly afraid to arrest people for no good reason

Washington Times: Trump gets FBI, Justice Department to probe claims of spying on his 2016 campaign

The Intercept: The FBI informant who monitored the Trump campaign, Stefan Halper, oversaw a CIA spying operation in the 1980 Presidential campaign

The InterceptBlacklisted academic Norman Finkelstein on Gaza, “the world’s largest concentration camp”

Military.com: Military helicopter drops ammo on school, busts hole in roof

CNET: Google stands to lose up to $4.3 billion in UK privacy suit

CityScoop: Meet the Israeli company ready to sell city-wide surveillance

Tech Crunch: A simple solution to the encryption debate

Engadget: NASA will create the coldest place in the universe to study quantum physics

Never thought I’d come across this headline: The American Conservative: The sad decline of Barnes & Noble

Vox: Why psychedelic drugs could transform how we treat depression and mental illness

Author: S. Smith