If you use Google Maps from a smartphone, you're giving data to the NSA.

To some extent this is because Google designed it to track you. This includes the fact that it asks you which address you're interested in. I used to use Google Maps, back when it worked without running nonfree Javascript code, but I never entered an address; instead I scrolled around in the area I was interested in and found the address for myself.

I've pointed out for years that the system could do the same job while respecting privacy more by searching the map data in your own computer for the addresses you're interested in.

Australian protesters are trying to block the clearance of a forest which is needed to launch a coal mine.

Both the means and the end endanger civilization's survival.

When users log in to a site through Facebook, Facebook gives the site access to lots of information about the user.

If this is what a site demands from you, you should not touch it anyway!

US prison is illegally harassing prisoner John Kiriakou, for instance by reading the letters he sends, and reading mail from his lawyer, and claiming he is forbidden to write to the media.

US states can't get drugs to execute people with, so they are trying experimental combinations with unpredictable results.

I think the means of execution is a secondary issue — the death penalty is wrong regardless of how it is done.