The EU has a secret plan to put devices in all cars to allow them to be stopped remotely.

This would be used by the state against criminals and protesters, but experience shows that others will find out how to use it too.

In coal country, toxic spills happen continually and people are disposable. It has been that way for over a century, as companies find excuses to block or ignore regulations against pollution.

New product: mobile surveillance robots for shopping malls.

I do feel irritated when I get checked by "security", usually at airports. I hope you do, too. If this robot keeps permanent records, which I expect it will, it will be like a mobile surveillance camera installation.

Clapper thinks Japan's state secrecy law, which impedes access to information about the handling and status of the Fukushima meltdowns, is a great thing.

US citizens: call on Minority Leader Pelosi to oppose "fast track" for the TPP.