The UK government has quietly undermined plans for marine reserves, leaving wildlife in danger.

Congress is considering various proposals to limit surveillance.

Any of these would be an improvement, but none of them goes far enough to prevent the US from carrying out a total fishing expedition against anyone it can present suspicions about.

Right-wing legislators have many ways of attacking abortion rights and women's health care, through pesky little regulations that cause considerable obstruction without being an absolute ban.

Evgeny Morozov explains how Snowden's revelations upended the establishment political certitudes about the Internet.

He notes the danger in the "smart" products that will spy on you.

He is mistaken on one point. Gmail could not encrypt email in such a way that it could never read the email. If the encryption is done by Gmail, Gmail has already had a chance to see the non-encrypted message, and could send it to the NSA first.

Paul Lamb, who wants someone to be allowed to help him die, lost his appeal in the UK.

He is condemned to decades of boredom unless something fortuitously kills him.