*Argentina Passes "Millionaire's Tax" to Fund Covid-19 Recovery.*

Criticism of Gina Raimondo's center-right record as governor of Rhode Island led her to decline a cabinet post as head of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Congress may soon abolish the tax-dodge of anonymously owned companies.

A journalist investigated the complex web of companies through which data about his movements was collected via his phone and redistributed, ultimately reaching the US deportation thugs.

He concludes that the GDPR are not, in practice, doing much to prevent this sort of spying. Also that anonymization of the location dossier does hardly any good.

He warns that this sort of data can be dangerous "in the wrong hands". It is crucial to realize that there are no "right" hands. We must design systems so that they can't be used to snoop on people.

If this makes targeted advertising impossible, great!

Australia's proposals to increase surveillance powers are dangerous on many points.

The spy agency argues against a clear, simple rule, "To spy on an Australian in Australia, get a specific authorization," by citing edge cases and asking to be able to spy in those cases without asking for specific permission. The agency would stretch those edge cases wide; we know they cannot be trusted not to.

I wonder how often those edge cases really occur. Ten times a year? It would be no burden to ask for specific permission ten more times a year. But if the agency gets an exception in can interpret on its own, it could stretch that to cover thousands of cases a year.

Deregulation government spy agencies is as dangerous as deregulation in business.