Consumer Reports found that nearly all US food products containing soy or corn are made with GMOs, even if they are misleadingly labeled as "natural".

Baltimore's inner harbor will be flooded roughly 900 hours a year, on the average, by 2045 — due to global heating.

A few decades later, it will be permanently inundated.

Many other US coastal cities and towns face similar problems that we are bringing on ourselves.

UK prisons have become so cruel that the government plans to fire the inspector of prisons.

Windows 10 requires users to give permission for total snooping on their files, commands, text input, and voice.

Amazon's "digital editions" spy system sends users' complete reading logs to Amazon.

Amazon says this is legitimate because users agree to it in the EULA, but pressuring people to click "Ok, spy on me" does not excuse it.

This article focuses on the fact that the NSA can watch this data passing on the net, avoiding the need to use the PAT RIOT act to collect it directly from Amazon. It legitimizes Amazon's snooping by saying that's needed to enforce DRM, which legitimizes DRM too. According to the article's view, all this would be fine, if only Amazon didn't also leak everyone's dossier.

As a defense of readers' rights, this is pitifully weak. DRM, being evil itself, can't justify anything.