NYT: How a Radio Shack robbery could spur a new era of digital privacy

The Guardian: Supreme Court cellphone case puts free speech–not just privacy–at risk

Slate: Courts can’t keep up with police location-tracking technology

ACLU: Trump’s new cybersecurity rules are better than Obama’s

Phys.org: How websites watch your every move and ignore your privacy settings

Getting them used to the Surveillance State at an early age: Experts warn against sinister Santa spy cam designed to make children ‘behave perfectly’

Metro: Why cannabis oil is better than prescription painkillers

Motley Fool: Deal-making in cannabis industry hits all-time high

Pacific Standard: How California is leading the way on marijuana criminal justice reform

New Republic: The Promise of Legal Pot

Washington Post: The Supreme Court’s privacy precedent is outdated

More on the Fourth Amendment and SCOTUS: Cops, Cellphones, and Privacy at the Supreme Court

ABC Online: Young people do care about privacy, despite what Zuckerberg and Brandis say

BoingBoing: Reverse-engineering a connected Furby toy, revealing its disturbing security defects

CNBC: Veterans, grappling with PTSD, are helping to boost public support for medical marijuana

Daily Beast: Could LSD be the right prescription for the terminally ill?

The Hill: Clock ticking down on NSA surveillance powers

And, in regards to NSA surveillance renewal, Antiwar.com asks, will reforms happen?

Activist Post: 7 lies statists want you to believe

High Times: Why are teachers and school officials acting like drug cops?

The Guardian: The trouble with bitcoin and big data is the huge energy bill

Does cellphone-sweeping ‘Stingray’ go too far?

The federal gov’t already broke its medical marijuana promise

Magic mushrooms next to be decriminalized in California?

FBI receives record number of background check requests for guns on Black Friday

UK politician calls for legalization of marijuana, admits to drinking cannabis tea

LA Times: How your data are shared and sold could be California’s marquee ballot battle in 2018

Activist Post: Macy’s parade security used to promote Surveillance State

The curious case of the murdered Baltimore officer gets even curiouser

Remembering the legacy of communism: Birthday of the bloodbath

• All that data is worth a fortune, of course it will be sold: Coalition could allow firms to buy access to facial recognition data
• Surrender: We’ve lost our privacy in an information swamp: “The rule: What had seemed private or sure to be forgotten is public and prone to be surfaced eventually. And this information speaks volumes — and adds up to more than the evident sum of its parts.Facebook knows so much about its users, from so many secret sources of information, that, as Kashmir Hill has been reporting at Gizmodo, it’s suggested to users as “people you may know” one-night stands, a child to a sperm donor, a psychiatrist’s patients to each other, and on and on. Who knows what the other keepers of our secrets — the ones who aren’t trying to sell us on their services — are doing with them in this furiously evolving internet of things that encompasses the Amazon Echo in your house, drones that fly in swarms and trillions of connected sensors linking the physical and virtual worlds?”
• Putin signs anti-foreign media law after RT forced to register as a foreign agent.  Did the BBC register too?
• Apple vs. FBI: 2 year old encryption debate heats up again
• Are Robots Better Pilots?
• Why you may want to swap your benzos for medical cannabis
• Will meth cause the next American drug crisis?
• Scientists have built a “hallucination machine” for drug-free brain trips

Google is collecting location data from phones without users’ permission

“Extreme vetting” is rebranded to the catchier “Visa Lifecycle Vetting”

Kim Dotcom to launch MegaNet to “replace” current internet

Pentagon prepares for drone wars of the future

Not sure this is the future I want: Welcome to 2030: I own nothing, I have no privacy…and life has never been better

Saudis to buy $7 billion in weapons from US for Yemen war

High-speed quantum encryption may help secure future internet

ProtonMail will use encryption to lock down your contacts list

The “unhackable” quantum messages that could stop cyber criminals’ super computers from stealing data

I’ve seen these, but only when it was too late lol: Algorithmically-generated Youtube horror cartoons turning childrens’ brains to mush

The Swiss cannabis farm aiming to supply Europe with legal weed

Cannabis expert believes 35 states will legalize weed by 2020

Bush-era attorney general warns against cannabis crackdown

Burgeoning marijuana industry has a growing need for scientists

Nevada’s September recreational marijuana sales top projections

Florida sued over medical marijuana implementation delays

How cannabis helps PTSD patients

We are entering a new age of cannabis and psychedelic use for wellness

Newsweek: How Jeff Sessions Plans to End Medical Marijuana Before the Year is Over

Will it replace fingerprint security?

NJ lawmakers want to ban drunken drone-flying

I see nothing good coming from drone tech, what with the flying machines become smaller and smaller and capable of performing increasingly greater tasks.