DNA people leave behind on cups and chewing gum can be used to produce a probable model of the person's face.

In general, the threat that the state will do this (to dissidents, labeled of course as "terrorists") worries more than the the danger that someone else will do this.

If we describe a search engine as a journalistic investigation engine, people might see why its reports should not be censored.

People fear Qatar's planned new "cyber crime" law will trample freedom of speech.

Note that making libel or "false news" a crime is an injustice directly, aside from what its consequences for journalism might be. States often claim that true news reports are false.

It's even worse in other nearby countries.

Cancer has become so common in Basra that half the population will get cancer, and the only likely cause is dirty ("depleted") uranium (DU) from US weapons.

This only scratches the surface of the US war crimes in Iraq. Obama protects the criminals.

US allies should realize that they do not dare let the US defend them from attack, because it would spread cancer there too. Likewise, if the US ever had to fight an invasion, it would poison its own population.

A Florida school took iris scans of students without getting permission, in order to track their movements around school.

Of course, they say this is for "safety", but this has almost nothing to do with real safety.