The EU must stop letting European companies entrust their data to US servers, but that's only the first step. The EU needs to establish sufficient privacy protection for users when the data is in Europe.

In my opinion, countries should not allow services to be designed as excuses to collect data about people.

US mothers of newborns face imprisonment for long periods of time if they take drugs, even prescription drugs, that are judged harmful to fetuses.

There are many practices that pregnant women would do best to avoid, but imprisoning women for not avoiding them only makes things worse.

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission cancelled a study meant to check for high levels of cancer within a few km of nuclear power plants.

The author of this article says that this was done to avoid embarrassing the nuclear industry with a positive result.

I don't know whether the result is likely to be positive, but the cancellation stinks.

Everyone: Urge the Philippines Congress to kick the tobacco industry representative off the state's tobacco control committee.

US citizens: call on Congress to ban privatized prisons.