03/14/18 Overnight Links

The Guardian: UK surveillance technology helping Duterte’s human rights crackdown

Motherboard: ACLU is suing the government for info about TSA device searches

New York Times: Mike Pompeo, a hawk who pleased the President, moves from spying to diplomacy

Daily Beast: Gina Haspel, Trump’s CIA pick, ran a laboratory for torture

Slate: Sanctuary cities are inadvertently handing ICE a map through license-plate data

ACLU: The CLOUD Act is a dangerous piece of legislation for targets of government oppression

EFF: EFF and 23 other groups tell Congress to oppose CLOUD Act

Techdirt: Iowa town threatens critical resident with lawsuit, gets sued by ACLU instead

The Verge: Chelsea Manning: ‘Software developers should have a code of ethics’

VietnamPlus: US hands over six surveillance drones to Philippines

Inverse: UN blames Facebook for ethnic cleansing, social media platform offers no new answers

TechRepublic: ‘Severe’ security flaws can turn popular smart cameras into spying tools

CNET: Chinese police literally use ‘Skynet’ surveillance system

Motherboard: The military-industrial complex roots of GPS

Author: S. Smith