07/07/18 Overnight Links

The Guardian: Thanks to Amazon, the government will now be able to track your face

Electronic Frontier Foundation: EFF to Illinois Supreme Court: Protect biometric privacy

Tom’s Hardware: Civil rights groups fight to keep Illinois’ biometric privacy law

Washington Examiner: Conservatives, civil libertarians pan Supreme Court finalist Brett Kavanaugh’s ‘troubling’ NSA ruling

Volokh Conspiracy: When does a Carpenter search start…and when does it stop?

Common Dreams: Americans deserve privacy protection from Big Data

Fortune: DNA tests of separated children raise privacy concerns Ed: It was extremely reckless for authorities to separate parents from children too young to identify their mother and father. But it’s a great way to fabricate a justification for biometric data collection.

The Hill: Memos detail FBI’s ‘hurry the F up pressure’ to probe Trump campaign

Techdirt: Malaysian government decides to dump its terrible anti-fake news law

The Spec: US Border Patrol stopping and boarding Canadian fishing boats

Truthdig: The media needs to radically change the way it covers ‘foiled terror plots’

The Week: Scott Pruitt was the conservative caricature of a liberal bureaucrat Ed: Did we Oklahomans not notice his fussy elitism because we’re just used to it here? There seems to be a case for it, as Pruitt’s behavior appears to have flown under the radar until he went to Washington.  So are Oklahoma politicians more corrupt than even those in DC?

New York Times: Making American unemployed again

FEE: Socialism isn’t built on compassion. It’s built on dehumanizing others.

Author: S. Smith