12/29/17 Overnight links

EFF: Court challenges to NSA surveillance: 2017 in review

Gizmodo Australia: The great data breach disasters of 2017

China Digital Times: China building DNA database by controversial means

Daily Signal: Invasive new airport screenings may put privacy at risk

Techdirt: Prosecutors benefiting most from police body cameras

Also Techdirt: Hawaiian Supreme Court says the First Amendment protects filming the police

National Review: Masterpiece Cakeshop and the slippery slope of anti-discrimination law

Also National Review: Security theater comes to Disney World Resort

The American Conservative: 2017: The year the Left went into eclipse

The Libertarian Institute: Recommendations for police reform

Gadgets Now: 2017: When artificial intelligence outsmarted humans

MIT Tech Review: 2017: The year AI floated into the cloud

Futurism: NASA expert says this is the ultimate test for AI in space exploration

Quartz: Data shows US inventors aren’t just good at science, they also come from rich families

Science Nordic: Can large objects exist in a quantum state?

NPR: How Caribbean pirates hijacked America’s metric system

Mises Institute: Why we read dead economists

Author: S. Smith