A U.S. State Department employee with access to sensitive information was accused of failing to report contacts with Chinese foreign intelligence agents who provided her with gifts in exchange for diplomatic and economic information, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-intelligence-state-charges-idUSKBN1702U8 Candace Claiborne, 60, was charged in a Washington federal court with obstruction of justice and […]

President Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, discussed removing from the US a Muslim cleric wanted by Turkey, according to ex-CIA director James Woolsey. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39391911 Turkey accuses the cleric, Fethullah Gulen, and the US of orchestrating last July’s failed coup. In a video interview, Mr Woolsey told the Wall Street Journal he was present […]

For years, the development of real-time face recognition has been hampered by poor video resolution, the angles of bodies in motion, and limited computing power. But as systems begin to transcend these technical barriers, they are also outpacing the development of policies to constrain them. https://theintercept.com/2017/03/22/real-time-face-recognition-threatens-to-turn-cops-body-cameras-into-surveillance-machines/Civil liberties advocates fear that the rise of real-time face […]