The Tories say they will spend funds on raising the economic level of poor areas -- but the specific plan gives more funds to some wealthy areas.

*EU includes gas and nuclear in guidebook for "green" investments.*

The next Boston rally for Julian Assange will be on the Boston Common near Park St Station, at 1pm on Feb 7.

The Crisis Text Line gives "anonymized" data about callers, and what they said, to an AI company to analyze.

What can be learned about individuals from this "anonymized" data? We must not assume it is zero, or that none of them can be identified from it. If they want this to be trusted, they had better let investigators make simulated help calls, see what data they record from it, and try to deanonymize it. And then they should make a commitment never to include more data than that in the future.

The issue of bogus consent is always significant: "you agreed to the fine print" is not a valid excuse. We should establish by law strict rules for what any such organization can do with personal data, strict enough that you can take for granted any approved organization won't abuse your personal data.

The author of California's single-payer medicine bill withdrew it, just before it was scheduled for a vote.

He said this was because the bill would have been defeated -- but the point is to make its opponents go on record against it, and be held accountable.