*Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition company that scrapes public images from social media to aid law enforcement probes, has subpoenaed internal documents from some of the groups that first exposed its activities.*

The article suggests this is nothing but an attempt to cause trouble for those NGOs.

Vanuatu will ask the International Court of Justice to state an opinion about what rights a country has when other countries are causing it to be inundated through their greenhouse gas emissions.

"Corporate social responsibility" is a term that businesses and their PR agencies use to pretend they will voluntarily treat the public better — to dissuade us from passing laws that could compel them to do so for real.

Zuckerberg wants to convert Facebook into a virtual reality world, which we could call the "zuckerverse".

Most of the places and things would be designed by other designers, but access to all of them would be controlled and tracked by Facebook's non-free software. Many designers would get a little money from this, while Facebook would let the most successful few have a million or two out of Facebook's billions so as to inspire the rest with unlikely hopes.

I expect this system to be built on the internet. But unlike the internet and the pre-2000 World Wide Web, whose protocols anyone is allowed to implement, this one will be restricted. Free implementations will not be allowed.

The VR headsets of today are based on non-free software, and since the headsets can talk over the network, we must expect them to have surveillance and other malicious functionalities.

Will we ever be allowed to make a free VR headset?

Influencers are trying to organize to demand more pay for manipulating the public.

Influencers are one part of the harm Instagram does to the world. Body-shaming is another. Why let that into your life?

In addition, it makes you run non-free software and collects personal data about you. Unless you turn it off.