Greg Palast: A Koch-funded company tracks people's everyday actions through other companies' digital surveillance, to determine how to influence them politically.

This company would not be able to use that data if the other companies did not collect it. We must legislate to prohibit collecting data about people's daily activities.

The Future The FBI Wants: Secure Phones For Criminals, Broken Encryption For Everyone Else.

Climate litigation is spreading to many countries. Outside the US, many lawsuits are against governments that are not doing enough to avoid global heating disaster.

Tim Crosland expressed the issue very clearly.

Is it right to let men declare themselves female on the spur of the moment, and be treated as female in all ways?

I see this as a conflict between two legitimate interests. A rule that one must present oneself publicly under a different gender for a reasonable period of time before being treated fully as having that gender could be a wise compromise between them.

We should not insist on a uniform and simplistic response.

The one remaining check on how Nauru mistreats Australia's prisoners is obedience to Australia's supreme court. Nauru is cancelling the agreement to do that. Soon it will only have to obey the secret orders of Australia's government, which is its paymaster.