Companies such as Fitbit and trying to scare parents into paying the companies to collect data about their babies.

These devices should cause parents lots of anxiety about how that data will be used.

A product to monitor a baby's health might be a reasonable thing to use if it is run by free software and all the data remains under the control of the parent.

El Niño Is Over — But It Leaves Nearly 100 Million People Short of Food.

CETA the Canadian Sea Monster would impose essentially the same injustice as the TTIP on Europe. All the regulations that protect the public from dangerous actions of business would be vulnerable to being swept away.

US citizens: call on your senators to support the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act.

Massachusetts citizens: call on Governor Baker to sign the public records reform bill.