REPUBLIC REBORN

The Guardian: UK surveillance technology helping Duterte’s human rights crackdown

Motherboard: ACLU is suing the government for info about TSA device searches

New York Times: Mike Pompeo, a hawk who pleased the President, moves from spying to diplomacy

Daily Beast: Gina Haspel, Trump’s CIA pick, ran a laboratory for torture

Slate: Sanctuary cities are inadvertently handing ICE a map through license-plate data

ACLU: The CLOUD Act is a dangerous piece of legislation for targets of government oppression

EFF: EFF and 23 other groups tell Congress to oppose CLOUD Act

Techdirt: Iowa town threatens critical resident with lawsuit, gets sued by ACLU instead

The Verge: Chelsea Manning: ‘Software developers should have a code of ethics’

VietnamPlus: US hands over six surveillance drones to Philippines

Inverse: UN blames Facebook for ethnic cleansing, social media platform offers no new answers

TechRepublic: ‘Severe’ security flaws can turn popular smart cameras into spying tools

CNET: Chinese police literally use ‘Skynet’ surveillance system

Motherboard: The military-industrial complex roots of GPS

Ars Technica: TSA accused of searching domestic travelers’ devices with no warrant

Associated Press: U.S. sets new record for censoring, withholding gov’t files

Sports Illustrated: Report: Madison Square Gardens using facial recognition on fans

Fortune: An American university is spying on students to predict dropouts. Here’s what that says about Big Data in the U.S.

Winston-Salem Journal: AP investigation: US military overlooks sex abuse among kids on base

Gizmodo: U.S. Border Patrol releases propaganda video praising Trump’s border wall

New York Times: The one thing that protects a laptop after it’s been stolen

ZeroHedge: U.S. spy drone spotted near Crimea after $47 million defense purchase by Ukraine: Report

Washington Examiner: After Parkland, a surge in make-your-own AR-15 rifles

National Review: Russia Collusion: Hillary Clinton, DNC, and FBI are the real stars

The Federalist: If backchannels with Russia are considered nefarious, say hello to war

CatchNews: Police without policemen: Dubai to use advanced technology for better surveillance

FEE: Entitlements: The “most predictable economic crisis in history”

SHELDON RICHMAN: Trade wars don’t put Americans first

CHRIS HEDGES: The empty piety of the American Press

Big Think: This black hole gives you an infinite number of futures

The Hill: Judge orders release of surveillance footage from Florida school shooting

The Guardian: Questions for the TSA after reports of laptop and phone searches on domestic flights

The Verge: Chinese police are expanding facial recognition sunglasses program

The Hill: Weakening encryption is no solution to election hacking

The American Conservative: Baltimore’s failed surveillance regime. “Everything from red-light cameras to a Cessna plane hasn’t made the city safer.”

Techdirt: Cop hits woman’s car at 94 MPH, killing her infant. Police arrest woman for negligent homicide.

BoingBoing: Undercover cop runs red light and tries to ticket driver who recorded it

Activist Post: Police warn reporters not to report news until cops give them permission…or face the consequences

Adweek: Why consumers are increasingly willing to trade privacy for convenience

LA Times: Artificial intelligence can transform industries, but California lawmakers are worried about your privacy

TruthOut: Washington state’s deep political and economic alliance with the Pentagon

The Federalist: Hillary unloads on Middle America, says ‘backwards’ Trump voters hate black people and women

National Review: Wakanda has the Right’s foreign policy debate

From Nixon to Trump: Five times the FBI went up against the president

FEE: Capitalism has shown itself to be the most feminist system: “So what has this technological advance managed? We might point to medicine as an example. Historic rates of death in childbirth were of the order of 1,000 to 2,000 per 100,000 live births. Today’s are in the 10 to 20 range. I think a reduction of two orders of magnitude is pretty good. But that’s not all. Back then a woman would spend her entire adult life pregnant or lactating: such were the child death rates that perhaps as many as 10 pregnancies were needed to ensure the prospect of grandchildren. We manage the same probability of continued family existence with a fertility rate of only two these days—meaning the reduction in risk for women is 500-fold…

…But the overarching change has been the elimination of muscle power in the paid labor market. Back before capitalism started to automate tasks what was really being hired was human grunt. Something which women’s’ musculature generally made them unsuitable for, so that the division of labor was routinely men doing the paid market work, and women the unpaid domestic labor. Once the machines were doing the hefting and hauling, those innate differences become ever less important. It is this, more than anything else, which has allowed the entry of women into paid work. And that, of course, led to economic freedom and liberty.”

Gizmodo: Dark matter may not solve this galactic mystery after all

NewsOK: Oklahoma City pays $18,000 to cover settlement of lawsuit over illegal police search

Business Insider: Beijing police are using facial-recognition glasses to identify car passengers and license plates

CityLab: Who’s in charge of the augmented city?

POGO: Pentagon to Congress: You can’t stop us from fueling Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen

The Verge: UK government delays roll-out of controversial age verification porn laws

Guardian: Destroying the notorious ‘Camp X-Ray’ at Guantanamo is a huge mistake

The National: Voice assistants only getting smarter as privacy concerns grow

GEORGE WILL: We’ve been in Afghanistan for 6,000 days. What are we doing?

BoingBoing: EFF awards the ‘Foilies’ to the government agencies with the worst transparency for 2018

National Review: Report: British police failed to stop child sex abuse ring over fears of racism accusations

The Intercept: “Rise and kill first” explores the corrupting effects of Israel’s assassination program

The Verge: Here come the $4,000 homes that can be printed in 24 hours

Singularity Hub: How will free energy affect our lives?

AlMonitor: US still pouring weapons into Yemen war

Activist Post: Amazon smart device owners can now become spies for UK police

GottaBeMobile: Millenials rank Facebook as biggest threat to privacy

The Hill: Opioid crisis is just getting worse

The Cannabist: Colombia looks to become the world’s supplier of legal marijuana

Daily Mail: PETER HITCHENS: We’re goading Russia into a ‘dirty war’ we cannot win

Motherboard: Watch a herd of Boston Dynamics’ robot dogs take over the world

National Review: 600 non-steel jobs at risk for every steel job saved due to Trump’s tariffs

Reason: How ponchos became more authentic after commerce came to Chiapas

Truthdig: In China, critics silenced on move to end term limits

Ars Technica: Deadly superbug just got scarier: it can mysteriously thwart last-resort drug

PsyPost: MDMA dampens the encoding and retrieval of emotional memories, study finds

Bloomberg: Peter Thiel’s predictive-policing tech company Palantir wins $876 million U.S. army contract

Mises: Not even the Pentagon thinks tariffs are needed for national defense

GovTech: As Google deadline for web encryption looms, many state and local websites don’t meet the standard

Techdirt: Court moves business owner one step closer to getting paid for vehicle DEA destroyed in failed drug sting

ABC News: More companies are using technology to monitor employees, sparking privacy concerns

Al Jazeera: Is it time for the US to apologize for invading Iraq?

Activist Post: YouTube purge: The end of freedom of expression or the great awakening for alternatives?

Engadget: The psychedelic nightmares of the pop-up Necronomicon

EFF: Senators introduce new bill to protect digital privacy at the border

Slate: U.S. tech company’s devices were used to inject surveillance malware into computers in the Middle East: Report

Breitbart: Florida paper: Sheriff Scott Israel stonewalling release of Parkland surveillance video

International Policy Digest: Google and the U.S.: Spying and droning together

CNET: Your smart camera may have been spying on you

The Hill: Time for the Pentagon to create a system to better track its spending

Activist Post: New Orleans and Detroit are models for the urban Police State

Motherboard: There are no guardrails on our privacy dystopia

Reason: Whose dystopia is it, anyway? Ed: Present culture definitely has a Farenheit 451 thing going on

The Intercept: Amazon partnership with British police alarms privacy advocates

National Review: Radio-dispatch recordings blow up Florida cop’s excuse for not engaging shooter

Activist Post: TSA expands body scanner searches to NYC, LA train stations

Digital Journal: Second shady company claims to have broken Apple iPhone encryption

Cipher Brief: Could AI-driven information warfare be democracy’s Achilles Heel?

Ars Technica: Switzerland first test integrating drones into its air traffic control

The Federalist: Gun control advocates want to lift the ban on politically-motivated gun research because they’re interested in politically-motivated research

WarIsBoring: How the Pentagon devours the federal budget

Daily Mail: Video shows Border Patrol agents rip mother away from her crying children

High Times: The endocannabinoid system: What nobody is actively discussing

Bulletin: CRISPR’s inventor assesses her creation

Gizmodo: Ice crystals in diamonds reveal pockets of water deep in Earth’s mantle

CNBC: Future weapons: Lockheed Martin pitches new war tech to Pentagon

Engadget: British Airways expands its biometric boarding gate trials in US

Alternet: Denver voters may have a chance to legalize magic mushrooms

National Review: The Big Tech backlash

The Verge: White House meeting on video game violence was unproductive and bizarre

The Hill: Gun crackdowns have already led to too many abuses

FEE: How Julian Simon won a $1,000 bet with “population bomb” author Paul Erlich

The Federalist: Americans are right to be skeptical of policymakers who don’t know how to talk about guns

Futurism: Four takeaways from Alexa’s bone-chilling, unprompted laughter

Cities across the country are replacing older public lighting with newfangled LED light bulbs. Sold as efficient, cost-saving, and “eco-friendly”, it turns out they’re perfect for covert surveillance. From City Lab’s latest article, ‘LED Streetlight Raise New Opportunities for Surveillance’: