A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans’ Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
Estonia’s defence minister Hanno Pevkur has resigned over an arms deal to supply artillery shells to Ukraine using €70 million in EU funds. Estonia had paid the amount upfront for the shells, but the Indian company had no record of selling artillery ammunition.
Trump Goes After Anonymous Email Provider in Italy. The administration designated an Italian antifascist webhosting service as a terrorist organization. It could affect an anarchist radio show in Asheville, a blog documenting attacks “crisis pregnancy centers,” and the Seattle Anarchist Bookfair.
Blindsighted: Silicon Valley wants to “optimize” your eyeballs. “Tech oligarchs are looking to own the very means by which sight and subjectivity are produced, transforming them into subscription services they can sell us in perpetuity.”
Prosecutor Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes and Claims of Torture Was Murdered in Ecuador. Alexandra Bravo, the prosecutor assigned to investigate U.S. strikes on three Ecuadorian boats and the 36 survivors, was shot dead in the coastal city of Manta last month.