Oil companies are arguing in court that the First Amendment prevents them from being held liable for damages caused by misleading people.

Data brokers collect lots of data about most people, including location data that they get from snoop phones, apps for sapps, and web sites and use machine learning to identify patterns in that data and what the patterns mean. The FTC is suing individual data brokers and making them agree not to do these things in the future.

It is a brave effort, but when one company stops, another will pop up to do the same thing. To make privacy secure. we need to require products and services to be designed so that they don't tend to track anyone.

*Elon Musk has become the world's biggest hypocrite on free speech.*

The laws now being invoked against the insurrectionist grew out of the response to violent southern racists, after the Civil War and during the Civil Rights Movement.

*Oxfam GB says aid cannot be delivered effectively [to Gaza] while bombing continues and supplies are rejected.*