The Telegraph: Amazon defends marketing facial recognition tool to police amid privacy concerns
Ars Technica: Police use of Amazon’s face-recognition service draws privacy warnings: “Cloud-based service can index millions of faces and recognize 100 people in an image.”
Wired: Few rules govern police use of facial-recognition technology
NBC: Your DNA is the next big privacy battleground
National Review: Report: FBI greatly overestimated threat posed by encrypted cell phones
The Atlantic: The undemocratic spread of Big Brother: “Year by year, for the foreseeable future, surveillance hardware and software will keep improving, extracting ever more information. Threats to privacy will proliferate. Communities will theoretically be able to choose whether or not their police officers make use of a given piece of new technology. But in practice, if the status quo persists, even the most intrusive innovations that portend the most radical changes in society will be quietly adopted without public notice or debate or votes that force elected officials to be accountable. The cops will just press ahead without asking permission.”
The Intercept: With Medal of Honor, Seal Team 6 rewards a culture of war crimes
The American Conservative: The Saudi lobby’s scheme to destroy the Iran deal
Also The Intercept: One teen and three FBI operatives: Was the government behind a 17-year old’s terror plot in Texas?
FEE: How media outlets misinform the public about teacher pay
Reason: Firefighter earned $300,000 in overtime by working more hours than actually exist
Ars Technica: NASA’s EM Drive fails actual testing
LiveScience: Archaeologists find shipwreck with stash worth up to $17 billion
BoingBoing: Depression: the psychedelic cure
