The UN Human Rights Council continues to extend its support for privacy rights.

However, it is advocating insufficient measures — data "protection" rather than banning the accumulation of personal data.

Tunisia is considering a new form of national ID card, which would be used for unspecified forms of tracking and surveillance.

Even nastier, a citizen would be punished for trying to decrypt the data in per own ID card.

Will Self: "Are humans evolving beyond the need to tell stories?"

Reading the article, I think it is only speculation that this change (which affects a large fraction of young people but not all) is a pathway to any new capability. It seems more likely to me that it is a pathway to cognitive discapacity.

As a new corruption scandal directly implicates coup-president Temer, nearly all the major parties in Brazil are supporting a bill to protect everyone in Congress from corruption accusations.

300 US churches have recently offered sanctuary to non-citizens without visas.

"Help the downtrodden" is the good side of Christianity. The bad side shows in Trump supporters those who wish to persecute someone.

Keep in mind that Obama has deported over 2 million unauthorized immigrants, in some cases because they committed minor crimes decades ago.

If Trump wants to adopt a harsher policy, what will he do? Deport jaywalkers?