Uber plans to snoop on users' locations and contacts all the time.

Uber has the technical possibility to do this because its app is nonfree: it is controlled by Uber, not by the user. In addition, snooping depends on a nonfree operating system. With a free system, the user could tell the system to lie to the Uber app.

The Supreme Court ruled that hotels can refuse state searches of their guest registers without a warrant.

This doesn't mean hotels are obliged to protect the privacy of their guests, and mostly they won't. And they can't protect guests from NSA or FBI massive surveillance at all.

Thus, I will continue to mostly avoid staying in hotels if the hotel knows my name.

Australia has adopted a repressive anti-sharing law that requires ISPs to impose censorship.

It won't stop determined people from sharing files on the internet, but it will damage human rights in general.

I disagree with Senator Ludlam, though, when he claims that what we need is for publishers to "deliver content in a timely and affordable manner". And not only because, by referring to published works as "content", he adopts the contemptuous attitude that their publishers take towards these works. It is not enough for publications to be "timely and affordable" — they must also respect our rights once we buy them. Commercial internet music distributors don't do this and neither do commercial e-book distributors, which is why I will go to trouble to bypass them — or wait years — or go without — rather than accept their practices.

Parachute jumpers who jumped from the unfinished One World Trade Center have been convicted of various "crimes".

I challenge the state to show that this "endangered" anyone, or that it deserves to be considered a crime.

The euro is an engine and excuse for reducing wages all across Europe. For any problem, the euro-zone plutocrats have the same answer: wipe out workers' rights so they will get less.