Now that people are accustomed to working over the internet, you can expect companies to exploit them through it until forced to stop.

A former US soldier says that he led a raid against Venezuela on Sunday whose aim was a coup d'état, and that the raid is still going on.

I suspect the US government organized the raid — that this was a clandestine act of shooting war.

The chief prosecutor of St Louis found evidence that Lamar Johnson was not merely innocent of murder; he was framed by officials when a previous prosecutor tried him. She calls for him to have a new trial, but the state attorney general says that admitting the possibility of error would undermine faith in the "justice" system.

If the system demonstrates it values truth and justice, it might inspire some faith.

Australia has proposed a bill that would prohibit many of the abuses that could make its contact-tracing app a direct threat.

This is a big step in the right direction. I think more is needed.

Also, even very firm prohibition on abuse of the data will not convince me to install a nonfree program, or to carry a portable phone.

India has published a tracking app, and seems to be planning to require many people to carry it. It may even impose house arrest on anyone that does not carry it.

Tim Bray, a vice president at Amazon Web Services, quit because he could not stand how Amazon treated its warehouse employees.