Companies working on the Fukushima nuclear reactors are disregarding requirements for medical tests for the workers.

The Japanese government pledged to investigate the complaints of WWII "comfort women" (foreign women forced into prostitution for the Japanese army), then decided not to do it.

When the Indonesian government complained, a Japanese official said this was "tantamount to saying that Japan was not trustworthy". Indeed.

US house builders keep the mineral/fracking rights for the ground underneath the houses, and try to lull buyers into failing to notice.

Microsoft proposes having the government protect our privacy by imposing DRM to control companies' use of it.

There are just two gaping flaws in this plan. First, the DRM is a gratuitous part of the scheme. If we have regulations on what companies can do with the data, the threat to punish them for violations would be why they obey the regulations. The DRM really changes nothing.

More fundamentally, this would do nothing to protect us from abuse by the government or its agents, which are the most dangerous abuser of personal data because their abuse threatens democracy itself.

Oppressive Canadian copyright law will wipe out VPNs in Canada.

Hollywood and the music factories would like to eliminate VPNs as part of their goal to monitor all communications.