The UK government wants to be able to collect data from Facebook, Twitter and YouTube automatically (without a warrant, of course).

New pun: geometer.

US citizens: call for an end to trials of GMO wheat.

Yemeni Man Sues Germany for Role in US Drone Killings of Civilians.

The people who clean the UK foreign ministry protested that their minimum-wage pay is too little to live in London and do the job.

The article demonstrates the harm done by subcontracting, which gives the state and other companies a way to hire people for low wages and say "we're not responsible, since we don't employ them."

A company or agency that gets workers through a subcontractor should be directly responsible for how they are treated and how much they are paid.