05/01/18 Overnight Links

Reason: Police body cameras may get facial recognition. Ed: A measure fought for by transparency advocates as a way to increase police accountability will now transform cops into walking avatars of the surveillance state.

Gizmodo: Companies in China are using brain sensors to monitor employees’ emotions

New York Times: Creepy or not? Your privacy concerns likely reflect your politics

USA Today: The walls have eyes for potential home buyers

Asia Times: Australia eyes wider spying on its citizens

Motherboard: Pimps are preying on sex workers pushed off web because of FOSTA/SESTA Ed: The solution to the human trafficking problem is the complete and utter legalization of prostitution. Violence and victimization are inherent to an illegal transaction, because neither party has recourse to courts of law.

Defense News: US makes it cheaper for foreign nations to buy American weapons

Mises Institute: Baby Alfie, the latest victim of omnipotent government

The American Conservative: Britain’s nervous breakdown

Boston Globe: Hoisting the false flag

FEE: How foreign competition strengthens domestic firms

The Intercept: Why do so many denounce authoritarianism from Trump and Putin, but not from Israel’s Netanyahu?

ACLU: The CIA gives a highly sanitized view of Gina Haspel while keeping her torture record secret

Rutherford Institute: While America feuds, the Police State shifts into high gear

Author: S. Smith