Facial recognition is always a scary technology, but it’s becoming even more so under the current administration.

That this article talks up (and uncritically repeats) purported advantages of surveillance and only briefly acknowledges privacy concerns is a real failure. Reporting needs to do better so that we can walk back surveillance instead of sleepwalk into more of it. Gift link

I wish that wearing an implicitly anti-surveillance EFF t-shirt through airport security this week had been a deliberate decision, but I just like wearing EFF shirts and it wound up being a happy coincidence.

Oh please no.

What a story. I knew how awful the TSA could be to passengers, but I never knew how bad it also was for its own employees.