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Leaked report: The Trump administration violated court orders in January’s travel ban (Dara Lind, Vox)
DHS’s inspector general alleges that department officials have been sitting on his report for six weeks.

Google collects Android users’ locations even when location services are disabled (Keith Collins, Quartz)
Many people realize that smartphones track their locations. But what if you actively turn off location services, haven’t used any apps, and haven’t even inserted a carrier SIM card? Even if you take all of those precautions, phones running Android software gather data about your location and send it back to Google when they’re connected to the internet.

Army looks to replace $6 billion battlefield network after finding it vulnerable (Paul McLeary, Foreign Policy)
Hailed as a transformation in battlefield communications, the WIN-T program can’t stand up to foes versed in sophisticated electronic warfare.

The making of an American Nazi (Luke O’Brien, The Atlantic)
How did Andrew Anglin go from being an antiracist vegan to the alt-right’s most vicious troll and propagandist—and how might he be stopped?

Mere seconds saved lives during shooting at California school (Sonali Kohli, Los Angeles Times)
It was one of the worst-case scenarios for a school shooting: a yard full of children playing with a rampaging gunman just minutes away. But at Rancho Tehama Elementary School in Northern California last week, a tragedy was averted when all the secretary needed to announce a lockdown was one shot.

Homeland Security has a plan to fight Zombie devices (Joseph Marks, NextGov)
A Homeland Security Department advisory group last week approved a key set of recommendations for the Trump administration’s emerging battle plan to fight botnets.

The key to better cybersecurity: Keep employee rules simple (Maarten Van Horenbeeck, Harvard Business Review)
It’s a common adage that employees are the weak link in corporate cybersecurity. But I believe they are also the best defense, if they are given policies that are easy to follow and not too numerous and complex. Employee security training and best practices need to be user friendly and simple to be effective.

The plague today: Where the ancient disease is still spreading and how to protect yourself (Hugh Morris, Telegraph)
Though the WHO said it believes the risk of international spread of the plague to be “very low,” it said that nine countries and overseas territories have been “identified as priority countries for plague preparedness and readiness.”