US citizens: call on Congress to deny Egypt the "security" assistance that it seems to have bribed Senator Menendez to get.

If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121

In the US: urge US universities to divest from fossil fuels.

Everyone: Support Jeanie Ward-Waller's complaint about Caltrans for widening a highway without environmental review, counter to the stated state policy to stop giving priority to car travel.

The UK biometrics and surveillance commissioner says that the UK is becoming an "omni-surveillance" society.

This is what happens when people allow government or commercial surveillance to advance without fighting it at every step. Governments and businesses are persistent; defeating their surveillance once doesn't mean they are down.

A few drivers report that electric cars behave bizarrely on rare occasions.

I wonder if these problems could have been caused by a cracker who broke the security in the car's computers and sent them remote commands to do these things. If a computer system is (1) connected to networks and (2) flexible enough that almost any function could be activated by commands coming over the network, there is probably a way for cracking to bring about the results described in the article.