The suffering of global heating disaster will fall first and most heavily on minorities and workers. Progressive politicians who have focused on other issues are starting to take up the Green New Deal.

The UK is threatened again with national ID cards.

Don't be suckered by talk of "new technology" and "secure". "New technology" means (1) they could track you more often and (2) it would be more vulnerable to data breaches and sabotage. "Secure" means "secure against you."

Even if you want to reduce the number of immigrants, you can see that a small increase in immigrants is a small price to pay for freedom,

Is the No2ID campaign still operating?

Around 60% of the countries on Earth are repressing dissent.

Australia is moving towards extreme repression of sites that get used for file-sharing, even when that isn't their purpose.

To resist copyright repression, we must stop granting any legitimacy to its goal. Sharing is good. To interfere with sharing is evil.

The French personal data regulation authority ruled that the system whereby companies bid to show a particular user an ad at that very moment violates the GDPR, because it shows the bidders that user's personal data without consent.

This relates to the fact that "consent" for data collection is meaningless because it is impossible to express what actions the consent is for.

But even if that problem had a solution, it is so easy for sites to manufacture "consent" that it can't be enough to permit the surveillance.

I will be glad if this decision throws a monkey wrench into the system that motivates collecting so much personal data, and especially if it makes some of that collection not worth doing. But that won't be enough to convince me to hand over any personal data. and won't convince me that it is safe for society to permit this massive surveillance to happen at all, "consent" or no "consent".