New York Times: Facebook’s Surveillance Machine: “Facebook doesn’t just record every click and “like” on the site. It also collects browsing histories. It also purchases “external” data like financial information about users (though European nations have some regulations that block some of this). Facebook recently announced its intent to merge “offline” data — things you do in the physical world, such as making purchases in a brick-and-mortar store — with its vast online databases.
Facebook even creates “shadow profiles” of nonusers. That is, even if you are not on Facebook, the company may well have compiled a profile of you, inferred from data provided by your friends or from other data. This is an involuntary dossier from which you cannot opt out in the United States.”
And more from the New York Times: Facebook leaves its users’ data vulnerable
And it continues…Boston Globe: Facebook’s mentality: Anything for a buck
Motherboard: This hat can fool facial recognition software into thinking you’re Moby
Techdirt: The future the FBI wants: Secure phones for criminals, broken encryption for everyone else
ShadowProof: Court asked to force DHS to release “race paper” on surveillance of black activists
The Intercept: FBI tracked an activist involved with Black Lives Matter as they traveled across the U.S., documents show
National Review: The social-media panic Ed: The tech giants will now be used as a tool by authoritarians of both parties to regain power and suppress online dissent, in exchange for favorable treatment. There’s a name for this cozy arrangement between big business and the political class: fascism.
Activist Post: U.S. military working to deploy robot ground vehicles for urban combat by 2020
DAVID HARSANYI: Trump’s plan to execute drug dealers is bluster masquerading as a solution
TheFreeThoughtProject: Cop cleared in murder of 16-year old and unborn baby after donating $10,000 to DA
The Guardian: LSD blurs line between ourselves and others, study finds
Daily Beast: John Oliver’s gay bunny book outsells VP Pence’s family about their pet bunny, “Marlon Bundo”. The name of Oliver’s gay bunny is also Marlon Bundo.
