US citizens: call on the Senate to allow expiration of the PAT RIOT Act's massive phone metadata collection.

Against massive surveillance, every small victory contributes to winning further victories.

If you sign, please spread the word!

Canadians: help the campaign against Google's snoop city project in Toronto.

Of course, Google calls it a "smart city", but "smart" means "snoop".

New Zealand has gone beyond banning the sale of military-style semiautomatic rifles and large-magazine pistols. Their possession will be banned as well, after a transition period, except for those with a special license.

These measures should be enough to slow down the shooting by future terrorists, and reduce the damage done by each bullet that hits someone.

I worried that the planned web interface mentioned in the article might require the current owners of these guns to run nonfree software to register them.

Fortunately, New Zealand has avoided that problem: people will be allowed to do this by phone call instead.

A Wisconsin court ruled that the Republicans' lame-duck power grab violated Wisconsin's constitution, which includes text specifically to prevent that kind of trick.

Thailand's First Election in Eight Years Not Free Or Fair, Say Democracy Activists.

The system is designed to keep the military in power, and then the military banned all the parties that truly opposed doing so.