Saadia Muzaffar has resigned from the advisory panel for Toronto's "smart" city, because the project is not seriously attending to citizens' privacy concerns.

As usual, "smart" means "spy".

Most campaigns to protect privacy aim for an inadequate target: regulating the use of data collected. That is not enough to protect people from being harmed by the data collected about them.

I don't see anything in this article to suggest that Muzaffar, and the citizens that complained, are trying to go further than that.

Turkey says that Jamal Khashoggi was murdered inside Salafi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul.

Neither of those states is known for its respect for human rights, or for honesty. There is no hard evidence. However, if Salafi Arabia cannot produce Khashoggi alive, we will have to consider the accusation proved.

It would not surprise me for Salafi Arabia to assassinate dissidents, given that it has sentenced dissidents to death. It does surprise me that it would do so in a way that is implausible to deny and would cause a diplomatic incident.

How [Salafi Arabia's] Money Keeps Washington at War in Yemen.

Many federal agencies, asking for public comment, are bombarded by lobby-bots.

Amazon is creating subsidiaries that act like "third-party" sellers, to compete with the real third-party sellers.

This is one more example of how Amazon cooperates with various other parties so as to get more power, then betrays them. Amazon has done wrong to readers, authors, bookstores, as well as its workers. And now to the companies that accepted it as a nearly-monopolistic market.

More reasons to refuse to buy from Amazon.