The UK's attack on end-to-end encryption is serious, and its denials are clearly lies. It wants to force computer manufacturers and sellers to sabotage users' computers on demand to make their data decryptable.

However, encryption done in proprietary software can't be trusted anyway. Whether or not a state can force the company to sabotage it, the company might do so on its own initiative at any time. You can't rationally trust nonfree programs: they do computing for suckers.

When the author says "the services you and I use", apparently assuming that you and he use software you and he can't rationally trust, he says he's a sucker and he assumes you are too.

The EU is considering a law to declare linking to a page a violation of copyright.

It is too bad that the article uses the enemy's propaganda word, "protection", to refer to copyright.

House Anti-Science Committee Attempts to Suppress Climate Change Studies.

One way to fight back is by replacing the weak term that the denialists chose, "climate change", with something stronger such as "global heating" or "climate mayhem".

Facebook's app has started scanning photos people take with their phones.

The article says "camera", but that word is misleading; cameras do not have a Facebook app installed in them. This applies only to phones and tablets.

I suspect the face recognition is done by sending the photos to a Facebook server. If so, the server could do other things with those photos. It could save them and send them to Big Brother. From now on, when people want to snap me with a mobile, I will verify it does not have a Facebook app installed before I say yes.

Where the UK Snooper's Charter is leading.