https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/4o8q8s/fbi_says_utility_pole_surve... http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/fbi-says-utility-pole-surveillanc... The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has successfully convinced a federal judge to block the disclosure of where the bureau has attached surveillance cams on Seattle utility poles. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/06/fbi-can-search-400-million-face-recogn... Today the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) finally published its exhaustive report on the FBI’s face recognition capabilities. The takeaway: FBI has access to hundreds of millions more photos than we ever thought. And the Bureau has been hiding this fact from the public—in flagrant violation of federal law and agency policy—for years. https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/industry-dominated-group-writes-drone-... An industry-dominated “multistakeholder process” convened by the Commerce Department recently produced a set of voluntary privacy “best practices” for commercial drones that are so riddled with exceptions and vague language that companies could engage in all sorts of practices that would violate the public's privacy expectations, while still claiming to comply with these guidelines.