Pope Francis has not given support to the US nuns that are being punished for focusing more on social justice rather than on attacking abortion.

US companies participated in the US snatch-and-torture network in Africa.

A poll finds half the people in eastern Ukraine dislike the EU and the US, and slightly more dislike Russia.

They should distrust all three.

Snapchat has admitted its messages can in fact be saved.

The attempt to prevent them from being saved is a kind of DRM. In effect, the goal of Snapchat is to give the message's sender control over what the message's receiver's computer does with the message. As always, that requires nonfree software and a secret communications protocol.

The EFF explains why the USA Freedom Act, just approved by the Judiciary Committee, falls way short of what is needed to protect privacy in the limited context of phone calls.

More about the "Section 702" excuse for surveillance.