US citizens: call on the House and Senate Judiciary Committees to advance the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, which would forbid governments from tracking people by buying data about them from companies that track people.

Really we should stop companies from collecting data to track people at all.

Massachusetts residents: call on your Massachusetts state rep to support H.135, which would regulate the use of face recognition to track people.

Here's the personal message I sent.

Please support H.135 so as to prohibit using face recognition to identify people and track people in Massachusetts. Whatever your skin color, you deserve privacy in your movements.

China has already shown how face recognition serves the purposes of regimentation and repression. People who want to be tracked should move to China — please don't let them bring China here.

US citizens: phone your senators to support the Freedom to Vote Act (which is a modified version of the For the People Act), and call for eliminating the filibuster to pass it over Republican opposition.

Common Cause said,

It will end gerrymandering along partisan or racial lines by requiring fair maps for congressional districts. And, it will take important steps to curtail secret money in elections and encourage small-dollar donors to reduce the influence of big money.

The Capitol Switchboard number is 202-224-3121.

If you call, please spread the word!

*Singapore reports biggest spike in Covid cases in a year despite 81% vaccination rate.*

This is disappointing news, because it indicates that current vaccines alone are not enough to make Covid-19 disappear, even vaccinating 90% of adults, without taking some additional measures.

However, New Zealand seems to be on the home stretch of eradicating an outbreak.

*Thailand's parliament on Wednesday started debating draft legislation outlawing torture and enforced disappearance.*