• Three Senators, Al Franken, Chris Coons and Chuck Schumer, are raising location information issues after an outcry last week in the wake of a discovery about OnStar's privacy policy. The policy enabled the sale of location information to third parties and allowed the company to keep tracking motorists even after they had cancelled their OnStar service. OnStar has since backed off. But the issue remains: there is no warrant requirement for location data, and it's open season for companies who want to deal in your private data.
• The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) has been on a CCTV rampage, installing tens of new cameras at train stations throughout Boston. Forest Hills station in Jamaica Plain has 77 cameras alone. The cameras were paid for with DHS funds.
• DangerRoom reports that the military is working to develop drones with face recognition. 
• An ACLU public records request reveals how long your cell phone company stores your private data. That's the same amount of time law enforcement has to get its sticky, warrantless hands on it. Via Wired.
• How much would it cost you to get access to a Stingray, capable of finding out where cell phones are even if they aren't in use? Thanks to the City of Miami, which put this price list online, you can find out.
• How many people in the US have secret security clearance? More than the populations of Boston, Miami, Chicago and Oakland put together. Secrets, America. Keeping them close to the chest. And away from people who would do harm to innocents, like this guy. 
• Apple mercenaries San Francisco Police Department officials are working on the case of the stolen iPhone 5. Don't despair. (Oh you weren't despairing? Oh.)
• DHS doesn't effectively ensure that its very expensive surveillance deployment programs are working. But the money keeps flowing. 
• Biometrics for horses. No kidding.
• Given that only 4.2 million people have secret clearance, the government has decided to open up the intelligence community a bit more, giving private contractors access to cyber war data and furthering the deep infrastructural connections marrying corporate defense America with the intel-around-the-beltway crowd. After all, an attack on Lockheed is an attack on you and me. Right?
• The war on red light cameras picks up steam. 
• What's going on with warrantless wiretapping and the courts? Well, it's complicated. The NYTimes explains.