We Need to Know the Algorithms the Government Uses to Make Important Decisions about Us, but most US states make excuses to conceal them. In some cases, the algorithm is a company's trade secret. This is a case where, in effect, code is law — and the law must be published for all to see.

In fact, US states have laws that belong to companies.

India might use Iris scanning to identify airplane and railroad passengers, as well as everyone filing a tax return.

They are already arranging to track all the poor by welfare benefits, but even for the middle class, there would be no escape.

Iris scanning is currently not as nasty as fingerprint identification, because people don't leave iris prints in places where they go. But there is a danger that iris-scanning cameras will in the future identify people walking by on the street.

Dropbox wants users to install a kernel module written by Dropbox. This would allow Dropbox to spy on, or interfere with, anything the computer does.

The nonfree Dropbox Javascript code is already a step too far.

Americans, global heating is likely to damage the Statue of Liberty.

But don't worry, damage to the Mall of Convenience won't come for a few more decades.

There are strikes all across France to oppose the "socialist" government's labor flexibility bill.