TelegraphUK: Data is the new oil, but how do you invest in it?

The Hill: FBI’s claim on surveillance abuse doesn’t fit the evidence

WSWS: Amazon conducts total surveillance of workers at German plant

Law360: DOJ attorney says surveillance program vital for US security

EFF: Senator calls on courts to increase transparency of surveillance orders

Toronto Star: How artificial intelligence will be used for social control

DW: Facial recognition surveillance test extended at Berlin train station

Alternet: Police shoot a lot more people than previously known

The Hill: Lawmakers look to punt controversial surveillance law debate to 2018

Business Insider: German court rules against foreign intelligence mass communication surveillance

iDropNews: Why Apple’s stance on differential privacy is so important

Media Post: Is email tracking the next big privacy concern?

War on the Rocks: The next military-industrial complex

Motherboard: This software developer is making a surveillance-free cell phone network

EFF: Don’t reauthorize NSA spy in a must-pass funding bill

Aviation Week: Big Data’s tyranny in aerospace

Fortune: NASA used Google’s AI to discover two new planets

High Times: Man settles in lawsuit against cops who forced him to eat weed

Reason: Scared cops are scary

Truthout: The US military is the biggest ‘Big Government’ entitlement program on the planet

FEE: The State is trying to replace your mother

Aeon: Plants have cognitive capacities, too

National Review: Google, Facebook, Amazon: Our Digital Overlords

The Wrap: Apple invests $390 million in facial recognition tech

Open Democracy: Digital giants are trading away our right to privacy

Futurism: Welcome to the future, a place where everyone knows your genetic code

Government News: Australia to trial world’s first city surveillance system

Rare: Rep. Rand Paul and Dem. Ron Wyden take on warrantless Surveillance State

EFF: FISC assurances on spying leave too many questions unanswered

LA Times: U.S. government’s embattled email surveillance program proves resilient

WGNO: ACLU of Louisiana slams New Orleans City Council’s ‘government surveillance on steroids’ proposal

Lexology: The Guardian: surveillance firms spied on campaign groups for big companies

Fox News: China’s DNA database in Xinjiang is in ‘gross violation of global norms’, says rights group

The Drum: Adtech firms collecting ‘vast amounts’ of data on kids despite online regulations

Marines.mil: Marine corps fields ‘game-changer’ biometric data collection system

BloombergQuint: World’s biggest biometric database grows in India despite doubts

ZDNet: NEC Australia to offer real-time video facial recognition

MediaPostCommunications: Facebook urges judge to toss ‘Faceprint’ suit

Dronelife: Drones among devices to be integrated with new surveillance technology

New York Times: The Pentagon Is Not a Sacred Cow

In related defense news from Newsweek: Why won’t the Pentagon tell us where our troops are fighting?

SFgate: “Verax”: dark picture of mass surveillance, whistle-blowers, drones, and war

ABC7news: San Mateo County ponders ban on killer robots

WhaTech: Facial recognition market worth $7.7 billion by 2022

The Inquisitr: Dragonfly Eye: AI machine can identify 2 billion people in seconds

findBIOMETRICS: NEC trains deep learning AI to focus

sUAS News: Facial recognition software for drones released by Face-Six

HuffPo: Welcome to the Surveillance State: China’s AI cameras see all

Bloomberg: Pentagon’s cloud transition under hush order from weapons buyer

Related from The Nation: The Pentagon doesn’t need more money

Mondaq: Two data breach bills introduced in US Senate

ACLU: NYC takes on algorithmic discrimination

The Business Journals: Biometric tracking brings security opportunities, privacy concerns

The American Conservative: Big Brother comes to the bathroom

The Wrap: Netflix says it’s really not creeping on you after it trolled users’ viewing habits on Twitter

Life Hacker: How to reclaim your digital privacy from online tracking

Newsmax: America no safer under mass surveillance

Forbes: Apple’s embarrassing attempt to rewrite iPhone X’s history

Counterpunch: History’s deadliest bombing campaign (the US bombing of North Korea between 1950 and 1953, which killed 2 million)

Fox News: Rep. King seeks more surveillance after Port Authority bombing

Techdirt: Court hold NYPD in contempt for refusing to hand over documents related to Black Lives Matter surveillance

Also from Techdirt: FBI director complains about encryption, offers to sacrifice public safety in the interest of public safety

HuffPoUK: Surveillance Cities

WIRED: How email open tracking quietly took over the web

The News Lens: Reporters Without Borders condemns Western tech execs for China endorsement

Phys.org: Secret surveillance methods in the Digital Age–how to ensure human rights protection

Climate Home: ‘Tsunami of data’ could consume a fifth of global electricity by 2025

Tech Wire Asia: Digital privacy: Phantom.me helps users become invisible online

The Hill: Yes, the FBI is America’s Secret Police

24/7WallSt: Global spending on data security to top $96 billion in 2018

Military.com: Fort Bragg leaders respond to sexual assault data.  This data.

International Business Times: Why Bitcoin’s strength is also its biggest weakness

Gizmodo: How to keep your home wifi safe from hackers

MinuteHack: How to stop hackers from stealing your data

FEE: AIs won’t command us to obey.  They will seduce us.

The Conversation: Will artificial intelligence become conscious?

PLOSblog: Top 5 human evolution discoveries of 2017

Business Insider: The ‘digital privacy case of the century’ is now in court

WIRED: Physical measures to amp up your digital security

Also from WIRED: How to encrypt all the things

And more: The Grand Tor: How to go anonymous online

American Thinker: Fake news on steroids–CNN forced to correct its latest big anti-Trump story

Reason: Court to cops: forcing a teenager to masturbate in front of you is not reasonable. (as in, the police coerced a teen to commit the act in front of them)

Daily Mail: Cop found not guilty of murdering unarmed, sobbing father of two.  (There is video evidence which clearly depicts murder by a power-tripping badged thug)

FEE: The myth of “unaffordable” health insurance just won’t die

National Review: Pentagon to carry out its first agency-wide audit

Betakit: Supreme Court of Canada upholds privacy protections for text messages

Quartz: Google’s true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance

Martech: Study: U.S. consumers think their data is worth only $244 per year

Harpers: Omnicide(That this is reality for every single person on Earth boggles the mind)

Engadget: All the cool gifts are made for spying on you

Gizmodo: How to track a cellphone without GPS…or consent

Task and Purpose: Report: The U.S. has 44,000 ‘unknown’ soldiers stationed around the world

Record Online: Report: opioid epidemic fueling rise in homicides

FEE: Europe is flirting with a disaster for free speech

AIER: End Net Neutrality

Jacobin: Why is there no “Saudi-gate”?

Scientific American: High IQ linked to mental disorders (Something I’ve long suspected.  Although should these mental disorders really be labelled “disorders” at all?

The Atlantic: Robots will transform fast food

Naked Security: US gov’t says it can break your encryption without a court order

Daily Telegraph: Amazon’s data theft means it’s the real Big Brother

Ars Technica: Circuit breaker thieves shine light on sheriff’s use of facial recognition

Phys.org: Six ways (and counting) that big data systems are harming society

Quartz: AI is now so complex its creators can’t trust why it makes decisions

Telecoms: Passwords about to become a thing of the past

IB Times: Google DeepMind AI became greatest chessplayer on the planet in four hours, beating current reigning AI champion

Antiwar.com: Trump tells Saudis to end Yemen blockade

Motherboard: You can now snort cannabis with new nasal spray

EnGadget: White House lets NSA’s warrantless surveillance continue until April

The Register: EU data protection groups: fix privacy shield or face lawsuit

TNW: Apple claims its data-gathering method doesn’t invade your privacy…much

Financial Times: Facebook privacy activist launches NGO to fund data lawsuits

Axios: Uber paid 20-year-old hacker to destroy data breach information

EFF: Government documents show FBI cleared filmmaker Laura Poitras after six-year investigation

Techdirt: The strange fight over who should take John Conyers spot atop the Judiciary Committee

HuffPo: Are LinkNYC kiosks surveillance devices? 

HowToGeek: Smartphone keyboards are a privacy nightmare

Fortune: Tired of being tracked online? Try Ghostery’s new AI tool

International Business Times: Your geolocation data is already for sale

GovTech: US Army turns to civilian recruits under new cyberprogram

Daily Press: From a cashless society to biometric surveillance: a terror-era to come?

Activist Post: TSA PreCheck probably a guise for mass collection of biometric data 

Harvard Business Review: Biometrics won’t solve our data-security crisis

Aviation Week: Pentagon spending on AI, Big Data, Cloud soaring

Chicago Tribune: Data-mining program designed to predict child abuse proves unreliable

Fox News: For cybersecurity, it’s business–not government–that should take the lead to protect private information

Lexology: The internet of toys: legal and privacy issues with connected toys

The Verge: DeepMind’s AI became a superhuman chess player in a few hours

BetaNews: Popular ai.type keyboard leaks personal details of 31 million users

WIRED: Evidence that Ethiopia is spying on journalists shows that commercial spyware is out of control

openPR: Global military surveillance drone market expected to grow rapidly over the next five years

Politico: Failure to share criminal data rampant, Pentagon finds

The Intercept: Trump White House weighing plans for private spies to counter “Deep State” enemies

High Times: Human brain designed to produce hallucinations

Ars Technica: Accused of medical malpractice–a lot? The VA may be the place for you