Big tech companies propose a federal data privacy law that is intended to do an inadequate job while prohibiting states from doing any better.

They want the law to be weaker than the EU's GDPR, which itself is not strong enough to do much good.

Anything that regulates mainly the use of their collections of personal data, and fails to limit what data they can collect, is missing the point.

Don't treat Salafi Arabia like a banana republic!

For one thing, it's not even a republic. It is an absolute monarchy with an imposed religion.

Hurricane Maria gave vulture funds an opportunity to buy Puerto Rican debt cheap. It looks like they want funds supposedly for Puerto Rico's rebuilding to be given to them instead.

Puerto Rico deserves an opportunity to declare bankruptcy and make those debts disappear. That the vultures will lose a lot of money is an additional secondary reason for this.

SCROTUS's lawyers made discussions about Deborah Ramirez's testimony break down by switching from phone calls to written communication. They also demanded a full description of her evidence in writing before they would even decide to invite her to testify. Sounds like they wanted the negotiation to fail.

Then they blamed it on Ramirez's lawyers.

John Hancock insurance is pressuring people to give their personal data to Apple or Fitbit.

The insurance company should offer an alternative which collects only the exercise data, not people's locations or the time of day when they walk, and sends it only to the insurance company, which will store only the overall totals that are pertinent.

The only rational need for life insurance is if you have long-term dependents. If you do the wise thing and avoid having children, you probably won't need life insurance anyway.