*Research reveals that financial support of infected workers benefits everyone, but the [UK] government won’t budge.*

The US government isn't doing much about it either.

The US Chamber of Commerce, an extreme plutocratist organization, has endorsed the wrecker's campaign to override US voters' votes.

Burmese thugs and soldiers have taken over hospitals, presumably to arrest (or worse) protesters they have wounded.

* The U.S. can't [persuasively] rebuke global tyranny when our companies sell [face recognition] tools that enable it.*

New York City is about to introduce municipal rental scooters that will track whoever uses them.

Don't be distracted by the side issue of rules for access to this tracking data. Whatever rules New York City adopts, the FBI won't be required to heed them. It will be empowered to collect the whole data base at will -- once a month, or once a minute.

Making systems respect privacy means designing them not to _collect_ sensitive data (such as locations) about people without a specific justification validated by a court.

I would not use these scooters unless I could use them anonymously. Likewise, I would not use Uber unless I could use them anonymously.