Our picksCrime-predicting camera; ISIS global reach; family-tree forensics, and more

Published 24 April 2019

·  AI-enabled cameras that detect crime before it occurs will soon invade the physical world

·  Theresa May set to anger U.S. with ‘limited access’ for Huawei

·  The 2020 election is going to make 2016 look like a student council election

•  Justice Department filing contradicts Kushner’s view of Russia threat

·  Nielsen was warned not to talk to Trump about new Russian election interference: report

·  ISIS still has global reach, despite the caliphate’s collapse

·  What the Sri Lanka bombings tell us about the state of ISIS

·  Sri Lanka Easter bombings spurs call to ban burqas amid reports some of the attackers were women

·  The meteoric rise of family tree forensics to fight crimes

·  With absolutely no evidence, Trump suggests U.K. spied on him for Obama

AI-enabled cameras that detect crime before it occurs will soon invade the physical world (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)
The future of video surveillance is about detecting not faces of behaviors.

Theresa May set to anger U.S. with ‘limited access’ for Huawei (Sam Coates, Lucy Fisher, Times)
PM prepared to ignore advice of cabinet and US experts

The 2020 election is going to make 2016 look like a student council election (Matt Lewis, Daily Beast)
Rudy says taking info from our adversaries is fine, and Trump thinks so, too. Look out—the 2020 election is going to be a sewer.

Justice Department filing contradicts Kushner’s view of Russia threat (Natasha Bertrand, Politico)
Jared Kushner, in his first public comments since the public release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report, on Tuesday downplayed the effect of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, which saw his father-in-law win the Oval Office.
The Justice Department, however, is offering a starkly different assessment of the potential dangers of a Russian intelligence operation to U.S. national security — and argues that it doesn’t take a master spy to do serious harm.

Nielsen was warned not to talk to Trump about new Russian election interference: report (Alicia Cohn, The Hill)
Former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was warned not to brief President Trump on possible Russian interference in the 2020 presidential election, according to The New York Times.
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney reportedly warned Nielsen not to bring the topic up in front of the president, despite Nielsen’s concern that the Russians would attempt to influence another U.S. election.
Mulvaney reportedly said it “wasn’t a great subject and should be kept below [the president’s] level.”