"Smart" phones are always listening for keywords, and there may be thousands of keywords.

Taking statistics on foot and car traffic in a way that is useful for planning but can't track anyone.

Tanzania has shut down independent web publication by taxing it so heavily that most people can't even think of paying it.

Maine's Republican legislators have fought tooth and nail against ranked-choice voting, but they couldn't stop it.

The Department of Heavy Surveillance (DHS) has a database that will enable it to investigate everyone in the US, all the time.

If we allow this to operate, it could make us safer from minor street crime, but it will surely make us more vulnerable to suppression of our human rights by the state.

Especially we should not allow systematic face recognition in public, by anyone including agents and agencies of the state, in the absence of specific court authorization.