Proposing restrictions on the use of automated face recognition.

The hard part will be to limit the state's use of face recognition.

The US made Google turn over Jacob Appelbaum's email data, and forced Google to keep this secret to avoid a public backlash.

Pope Francis's encyclical about the climate threat addresses a broader issue, criticizing extreme capitalism, concentration of wealth for a few, and frivolous throw-away consumption, which lead to suffering for the poor as well as to ruining Earth.

It is radical at several levels.

Here are some quotations.

Overall, the Pope's support for the effort to overcome plutocrats and curb global heating is a great help, but we must not forget the areas where he is mistaken. Women's rights receive skant attention in the encyclical, and the danger of overpopulation is dismissed.

The Pope misrepresented the advocates of contraception and population limitation, pretending they are the enemies of conservation.

Rep: Maloney: "If we don't change our permissive gun laws, we'll never end gun violence."

Debunking myths used to oppose gun control in the US.

Congress [has been] Warned That Drones Present ' A Nightmare Scenario for Civil Liberties'.