Empirically, copyright makes books and songs disappear after a few years.

The US has agreements with non-US telecom companies to retrieve data at will.

The Xbox One's great new feature is advertising targeted based on monitoring users.

Pope Francis visited Lampedusa to call attention to the suffering of those that try to get to Europe by boat — and the poverty in Africa which impels them to do it.

The UK plans to ban two organizations without trial.

To ban an organization without trial is a violation of freedom of association. The fact that other countries (including the US) do it too is no excuse whatsoever. Boko Haram is a terrorist group, responsible for horrible atrocities, according to what I have read; but there should be a trial to establish this and not merely a political decision.

This ban will result in sentences of 10 years in prison for wearing certain forms of clothing. I am going to the UK soon, and I don't know what forms of clothing they are; am I in danger? Can someone tell me what I need to avoid? And can someone try to demonstrate that this doesn't infringe freedom of expression?

The US has applied such bans to charities that had bent over backwards to follow US rules in order to aid the poor and not terrorism.