Overnight links

EnGadget: White House lets NSA’s warrantless surveillance continue until April

The Register: EU data protection groups: fix privacy shield or face lawsuit

TNW: Apple claims its data-gathering method doesn’t invade your privacy…much

Financial Times: Facebook privacy activist launches NGO to fund data lawsuits

Axios: Uber paid 20-year-old hacker to destroy data breach information

EFF: Government documents show FBI cleared filmmaker Laura Poitras after six-year investigation

Techdirt: The strange fight over who should take John Conyers spot atop the Judiciary Committee

HuffPo: Are LinkNYC kiosks surveillance devices? 

HowToGeek: Smartphone keyboards are a privacy nightmare

Fortune: Tired of being tracked online? Try Ghostery’s new AI tool

International Business Times: Your geolocation data is already for sale

GovTech: US Army turns to civilian recruits under new cyberprogram

Daily Press: From a cashless society to biometric surveillance: a terror-era to come?

Activist Post: TSA PreCheck probably a guise for mass collection of biometric data 

Author: S. Smith