Azerbaijan heavily attacked the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.

US citizens: call on the Biden Administration to stay firm against corporate lobbyists, and tax billion-dollar corporations.

The White House comments lines are +1-202-456-1111 and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213.

If you phone, please spread the word!

US citizens: call on Congress to renew funding for child care before it expires on September 30.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are +1-202-224-3121, +1-888-818-6641 and +1-888-355-3588.

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California sued Google for keeping track of location history even when a user had specified not to do so.

In the settlement, Google committed to being more "transparent" about what it was doing with location data. The article does not say that it committed to giving users the option for not storing location data that it will truly obey.

The usual practice when governments regulate with snooping disservices is to assume that "transparency" (as part of asking for "consent") is sufficient to make any sort of snooping legitimate. Given that many users find that other aspects of their lives practically compel them to use the disservice, they don't really have the choice not to "consent". Making the request for consent "transparent" does nothing to fix that.

Parents in the US are tracking their children up through ever-higher ages. Now some college students are being tracked.

This article describes the harm that does.