Systems that make profiles on people to help companies sell to them could be a big help to every unscrupulous company, if they work.

They need a source of personal data. The ones you can't refuse to contribute to are the email services such as gmail that profile the people they receive mail from.

In Mexico City, a woman was kept chained and forced to do ironing in a dry-cleaning store.

Saudi Arabia continues bombarding Yemen heavily; the supposed end of the bombardment campaign appears to have been a Putin-style pretense.

Over 100,000 children are trafficked each year in India, many of them sold into domestic slavery.

Bills to reform how Maryland deals with thugs that kill and maim were weakened by pressure from thug unions.