More about enslavement of high tech workers in Malaysia, and suggestions for ending it.

A California court denied a driver's suit to gain access to the data that license plate cameras have collected about him.

We should not allow license plate cameras to record seeing any particular plate, unless that plate is invalid or sought by court order.

India's "Untouchables" Are Still Being Forced to Collect Human Waste by Hand.

There are two wrongs here: the fact that many Indians don't have flushing toilets (which is a matter of poverty and overpopulation) and the fact that certain people are forced to clean them. If caste prejudice were eliminated, the second wrong would be gone but the first wrong would remain.

Microbeads in toothpaste can hurt users' gums, as well as wildlife after they go down the drain.

Decrease of the human population growth rate has ceased in sub-Saharan Africa. The world's population threatens to grow to 11 billion by 2100.

I don't think it can reach that level — the consequences will cause global disaster before then, and many children will die. But that is a horrible way to limit the population.