Farms in California irrigate crops with toxin-laden oil field waste water.

Has it been established whether the food grown this way has significant levels of toxins?

A Canadian mining company's private thugs killed a Guatemalan community activist; now his widow is suing that company.

The hope is that this will make international companies less arrogant about the lives of local people.

The "opentable" web disservice tracks people's use of restaurants while encouraging them to spend more.

I'd reject opentable for its surveillance, but I suspect that I'd have to reject it for nonfree Javascript code first.

If computers and algorithms control your life in inexplicable and perhaps cruel ways, don't blame the computers. Blame the bureaucratic company or agency which set them up to impose its goals and cloud its policies.

The UK likes to pass laws to authorize more surveillance and attacks on people's computers in a quiet way. Public debate about these issues is called for.