Car companies are spreading FUD to try to defeat the Massachusetts right to repair initiative.

The truly dangerous data predators are the car companies themselves. But you can block them, and anyone else that wants to track your car, by converting it into a disconnected car. Disconnect (or cover with metal foil) its cellular antenna and its GPS antenna. If warranty considerations would preclude turning off the antennas, get a car that's out of warranty.

And do vote for the right-to-repair initiative if you live in Massachusetts. Next step: require cars to let the owner control what data to collect and/or make available to anyone.

Ultimately, the computers in the car that can communicate sensitive data, or allow installation of different versions of software, should run exclusively free software and the owner should be able to install modified versions.

Everyone: support the decentralized month of solidarity with Assange, Whistleblowers and Press Freedom.

Having cops in a school harms students in the UK, just as it does in the US.

Once again, a ship that picked up migrants in the Mediterranean is being barred from all ports and is getting low on food and water.

Facebook has banned political ads for the week before election day. That has a good side, but it includes the ads by state election officials which tell people where and how to vote.

Facebook could run those announcements gratis; then they would not be ads.