Recommended:
> #### Law, Tech and Policy
> [A Convicted Hacker and an Internet Icon Join Forces to Thwart NSA Spying](http://www.wired.com/2014/07/dark-mail-hides-metadata-from-nsa/) – Wired. Related: [Inside Citizen Lab, the ‘Hacker Hothouse’ Protecting You from Big Brother](http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/07/inside-citizen-lab-the-hacker-hothouse-protecting-you-from-big-brother/) — ArsTechnica.
> [Singapore is Testing Whether Mass Surveillance and Big Data can not only Protect National Security, but Actually Engineer a More Harmonious Society](http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/07/29/the_social_laboratory_singapore_surveillance_state) — Foreign Policy.
> On the 35th anniversary of the case which introduced the 3rd party doctrine (i.e., people have no expectation of privacy in information they expose to others (e.g., telcos and other businesses)): [Smith v. Maryland Turns 35, But Its Health Is Declining](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/smith-v-maryland-turns-35-its-healths-declining) — Electronic Frontier Foundation.
> #### General Interest
> At Medium, Rex Sorgatz’s four part series on art and authenticity: **Part I**: [This is Not a Vermeer](https://medium.com/message/this-is-not-a-vermeer-67b752b150c0); **Part II**: [Uber for Art Forgeries](https://medium.com/message/uber-for-art-forgeries-2c9c8bf41608); **Part III**: [Forgeries Gone Wild](https://medium.com/message/d9b4c195da5); and **Part IV**: [The End of Authentication](https://medium.com/message/cbbfbcb0c49e).
> [The Scope of Ai Weiwei’s Imagination](http://hyperallergic.com/137367/the-scope-of-ai-weiweis-imagination/) – photo essay in Hyperallergic on the recent “Ai Weiwei: Evidence” exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum in Berlin. Also: [The Long Game: On the Repression of Ai Weiwei and Jafar Panahi](http://www.full-stop.net/2014/07/30/features/essays/tomashachard/the-long-game-on-the-repression-of-ai-weiwei-and-jafar-panahi/) — Full Stop.
> [David Foster Wallace on Writing, Self-Improvement, and How We Become Who We Are](http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/08/11/david-foster-wallace-quack-this-way/) – Maria Popova at Brain Pickings. Related: [mp3](http://theconnection.wbur.org/2001/03/30/english-language-usage) of WBUR/The Connection radio program featuring David Foster Wallace and “Modern American Usage” editor/author, Bryan Garner, discussing English language usage.