The Federal Trade Commission ordered two companies to destroy all the data they illegally collected from children, plus all work product based on such data.

That represents a recognition that the product of collecting data can be morphed into various forms, including algorithms derived from deep learning, and allowing the culprits to retain any form whatsoever of that data would let them make a monkey out of any and all privacy laws.

On the front end, however, this shows how weak US privacy protection is. It protects only children, and that protection disappears when they get "consent". That is not enough.

The latest Russian landmines detect the footsteps of people walking nearby. Putin forces deployed them at a distance using missiles -- in effect a sort of mine-dropping cluster bomb.

Interestingly, these mines are proof that potential atrocities were set up by the Putin forces, not by putative omnipresent but never-seen Ukrainian Nazis bent on killing thousands of Ukrainians to make a false accusation. Only the Putin forces had these ultra-modern mine-missiles.

The US should join most of the world's countries and sign up to the prohibition of cluster bombs.

A fossil fuel company wants to do a frackwell in England to "to show that a competent operator can be trusted to develop the technology safely." This proposed "test" is a swindle, for two reasons.

Suppose the test fails because the local water supply is contaminated. (That has happened in the US.) What will the company do to correct that damage? Without a commitment to do that, this "test" would be carried out at great risk to the public. "We risk not finding a new business, you risk permanent loss of your water supply."

The test could also fail because the well appears to "work." Those wells would continue to be used for many years, and the resulting increase in greenhouse gas emissions would certainly not be safe.

Philadelphia has brought back mask requirements, having seen the Covid case rate increase rapidly.

New York City and Boston have high rates of Covid-19 and should have mask requirements too.

Covid-19 vaccine is no more likely than other vaccines to cause the rare temporary condition, myopericarditis.