UK citizens: phone or write your MP to insist that any register of who has visited a pub or restaurant be stored offline, in that place, to prevent the state from using it for other than the ostensible purpose. Each day's records should be sent separately when needed; if contact tracers inquire about June 5, they should not receive data about June 4 or June 6.

You may wish to add that you do not trust Boris and Dominic to follow any rules they may make about use of the data.

Please spread the word!

US citizens: email or phone your congresscritter saying to preserve the Open Technology Fund, which develops free/libre programs to protect freedom from the repression of many governments.

It can't hurt to contact your senators as well.

There is an organized campaign to preserve the Open Technology Fund. Although I was put off by its use of the term "open source", which is a philosophically weak substitute for "free software", its arguments for the OTF are valid and look effective. So I decided to sign it.

Alas, to sign one has to run nonfree Javascript software, which I refuse to do. Likewise I am morally bound not to encourage you to sign it, which is why I do not post a reference to it here.

You can probably have as much influence with your own direct emails as you would by signing a petition, and with phone calls even more influence. Please show your support.

(satire) *… heavily armed fans reportedly guarded a statue of Yogi Bear Wednesday on the off chance that he turned out to have supported the confederacy.*

I've warned that if the UK leaves the EU under Tory rule it will sign business-supremacy treaties that put Britons under the power of foreign companies and negate their democracy. Now it is not a mere prediction. The Tories want to join the Treacherous Plutocratic Poison.

Groups call on Congress to reduce thugs' surveillance of protesters.

As usual in the field of surveillance, this does not go far enough. But it is heartening to see that it is now on the political map.