Yahoo has presented, through a patent application, the idea of collecting data about people and cars passing by a location to choose what ads to display on a billboard.

The patent application itself is not particularly an issue (other than as an example of a practice, computational idea patents, that is bad in general). Collecting data as envisioned in the application is the issue.

The most important issue is not the use of these data for choosing ads, but collecting the data at all. We need laws to prevent that.

Plutocratist state governments are undermining the Clean Power Plan.

Ethiopia is systematically crushing dissent, and kidnaped a dissident expat from another country who now faces execution in Ethiopia.

Striking US prisoners understand that the only effective action they can take is to refuse to be used as slaves.

When the rebels took Eastern Aleppo, the inhabitants did not welcome them.