How the RCMP Is Going to Sell Online Surveillance: Here’s What We’re Reading Today

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Here’s what we’re reading today:

1. Inside the RCMP’s plan for a ‘new public narrative’ on cyber surveillance

“A four-page memo obtained by VICE News sheds light on how the Royal Canadian Mounted Police intends to lobby the public for new surveillance powers.

As the Trudeau government contemplates new powers for the federal police force, the documents call for the RCMP to push for ‘the creation of a new public narrative around why police need judicially authorized and timely access to online information.'”

VICE News

2. The end of the Anglo-American order

“For decades, the United States and Britain’s vision of democracy and freedom defined the postwar world. What will happen in an age of Donald Trump and Nigel Farage?”

New York Times Magazine

+1: Maybe the internet isn’t a fantastic tool for democracy after all – Select/All

3. Ontario PC’s hid contract for MPP who gave up seat for Patrick Brown

“Patrick Brown’s office misled the Toronto Star about compensation to a former MPP who quit his seat for the Progressive Conservative leader, imposing a gag order at a time when the secret contract could make the Tories look bad, internal emails show.

“Documents obtained by the Star reveal Conservative officials were scrambling after Garfield Dunlop stepped down in Simcoe North so the new PC leader could run in a byelection on Sept. 3, 2015.”

Toronto Star

4. What makes a genius different from just a really really smart person?

Nautilus talks to five Mensa members about “the meaning of genius, whether it can be measured, and what IQ has to do with it.”

Nautilus

5. Freeze your head and live forever

A new generation is keeping Russia’s centuries-old fascination with immortality alive. Get ready to chill out and wait for the future (or singularity) to arrive.

Bloomberg