The Guardian: Cosmetics chain Lush resumes undercover police poster campaign
The Week: The NSA knew about cell phone surveillance around the White House 6 years ago
Mashable: Apple’s officially making it harder for cops to bust into your iPhone
Reuters: Big Brother facial recognition by police challenged in Britain
The New American: Surveillance State grows with help from state and local accomplices Ed: A few days old, but so important.
Gizmodo: China to make RFID chips mandatory in cars so the government can track citizens on the road
Foreign Policy: In China’s far west, companies cash in on surveillance program that targets Muslims
Techdirt: South Carolina drug war cops routinely serve regular warrants as if they’re no-knock warrants
The Free Thought Project: Video of massive crowd chasing down British police at protest over man arrest for reporting on pedophiles Ed: It is apparently illegal to report on certain court trials of Muslim immigrant pedophile rings in Britain, probably due to the fear of the government not living up to PC standards.
Reason: Domino’s Pizza is fixing the roads of towns across the US, because local governments won’t
The American Conservative: The Saudi-UAE alliance is the most dangerous force in the Middle East today
Telegraph: Only 100 nuclear bombs needed to cause catastrophe around the world Ed: 15,000 currently exist.
The Guardian: ‘Surveillance society’: Has technology at the US-Mexico border gone too far?
New York Times: The US spends billions in defense aid. Is it working?
The Intercept: Law claiming to fight sex trafficking is doing the opposite: making sex work more dangerous
