Google's plan to turn part of Toronto into a Snoop City quietly swallowed important downtown areas while no one was looking.

After Israeli drone-launched "warning strikes" killed two Palestinian boys on a roof, it looks like Israel edited the video which it posted, to disguise the fact that the drone pilots could see the boys.

Australia is desperate to make life bad for the prisoners it holds on Nauru. A woman who was seriously ill was brought to Australia for treatment, then was held in immigration prison for 6 weeks without being allowed to see a doctor.

Facebook secretly let other companies access personal data of Facebook's useds. Why?

Siva Vaidhyanathan argues that the aim was (1) to give the other companies an interest in defending Facebook against regulation, and (2) because they would encourage their customers to give more of their personal data to Facebook.

I think Facebook should be eliminated entirely and replaced with an index of people. People would create records in the index under their names. Your record — if you make one — would give other people a way to contact you through various methods of messaging.

You could include a small amount of information about yourself to help people tell if you are the person they are seeking to contact, rather than another person with a similar name. Their messages to you would carry various contact coordinates in case you decide to respond.

It would do nothing more than that. It would not be allowed to do anything more, or have a special relationship with any other communication system.

This would provide a chance to decentralize the web again — but taking advantage of that chance would require other changes.

The numbskull has had two soldiers discharged because they have suppressed HIV infections.

This is a method of spreading propaganda to his supporters: inculcating in them disgust and fear towards people that have suppressed HIV?