02/20/18 Nightly Links

Reason: Border Patrol agents don’t need Big Brother spying powers over Americans, but they want them anyway

Futurism: As drones become tools of war, companies turn to hacking them

Idaho Statesman: This Boise company will demonstrate how its tech can thwart a drone attack

Ars Technica: Facebook has been sharing our data for months to help study income inequality

VICE News: Neil Gorsuch is shaping up to be an unlikely defender of your privacy

Washington Examiner: Is it time to crack down on facial recognition tech?

Techdirt: Court sends cop back to prison for bogus ‘contempt of cop’ arrest

Eurasia Review: Germany launches intelligence satellite to escape US influence

Policy Options: Personal drones, AI, and our privacy

MultiBriefs: New developments in police technology

NextGov: Nvidia making facial recognition AI for smart city surveillance

The Verge: Here are some of the ways experts think AI might screw with us in the next five years

MIT Technology Review: The ‘Black Mirror’ scenarios that are leading some experts to call for more secrecy on AI

The Drive: Samsung just patented display drones controlled by your eyes, face, and hand gestures

Quartz: Artificial intelligence’s ‘paper-clip maximizer’ metaphor can explain humanity’s imminent doom

Ars Technica: Inching closer to a DNA-based file system

Author: S. Smith