BoingBoing: For more than a decade, Facebook shared your friends’ data and other sensitive info with phone makers
Bloomberg: Apple throws a wrench in Facebook’s data-gathering engine
WSWS: Facebook security officer: Not all speech is “created equal”
Forbes: The case for end-to-end encryption
Gizmodo: I’ll believe Apple is killing cops’ anti-encryption tools when they actually do it
The Star Online: Big Tech firms march to the beat of Pentagon and CIA despite dissension
Scientific American: How Google could help end war
Anything that can, will, be used to rationalize total surveillance: Techdirt: 30,000 cameras can’t be wrong: Chicago banks on surveillance to solve violence problem
The Hill: The ethical conflict between surveillance capitalism and artificial intelligence
NationalDefenseMag: Algorithmic warfare: Pentagon eyeing AI center for tech development
The Intercept: Police broke into Chelsea Manning’s apartment with guns drawn…for a “wellness check”
Counterpunch: Welcome to Police-State America, weary traveler
The American Conservative: When the content police came for the Babylon Bee
National Review: Masterpiece Cakeshop is a setback for liberty Ed: It was a simple matter freedom of association: the baker didn’t want to do business with the gay couple. He didn’t need to give a reason, but it could have been any reason at all and it still shouldn’t have mattered. People as customers shouldn’t be forced to buy products from certain privileged businesses, and businesses shouldn’t be forced to serve a customer if they choose not to. Freedom of association, or voluntarism, is pretty much the foundation of a free society.
The Verge: Acid might actually improve society, new study suggests
