06/26/18 Overnight Links

The Intercept: The NSA’s hidden spy hubs in eight U.S. cities

The Hill: Senate votes to require Pentagon to disclose cellphone spying near military facilities

World Net Daily: New drone surveillance will ‘make Big Brother drool’

New India Express: China steps up surveillance with flock of robotic doves in Muslim-majority Xinjiang

Futurist: By turning down 23andMe, immigration activists are actually being responsible about genetic privacy

EFF: A technical deep dive into STARTTLS everywhere

Gizmodo: Orlando police drop Amazon’s controversial facial recognition tech…for now

Forbes: Facial recognition and future scenarios

The Week: If America wants to stop the migrant crisis, it should decriminalize drugs

DANIEL HARSANYI: The real world is starting to resemble Twitter, and that’s a problem

JUSTIN RAIMONDO: Washington D.C., the epicenter of crazy

The American Conservative: Believe it or not, banning flavored E-cigarettes is a terrible idea

Also The American Conservative: The Military-Industrial Complex’s assault on liberty

Reason: 1972: The year that made 2018 seem sane

Activist Post: One card to rule them all

High Times: THC-infused sriracha has arrived

Author: S. Smith