The UK government is facing a legal crisis about using drones to kill people in areas which are not battlefields.

I wish the US valued human rights enough to find the practice disturbing. Once Obama endorsed the practice, most Democrats went along with him.

Sequencing people's whole genomes is enabling progress at understanding and curing rare diseases caused by unusual or mutant genes.

We cannot pass up this benefit, but at the same time it leads to danger. The direct danger that people will be denied medical insurance is prevented in the US, for the time being, by Obama's insurance law which Republicans are trying to repeal.

To make use of the genetic danger requires correlating it with lots other personal data, and that's what opens up more danger. The state, and companies, can cause people lots of trouble using knowledge of that personal data.

Israel arrested a Palestinian teenager who lives near Jerusalem, and dumped her in Gaza where she had never been. There is no way to get from Gaza to the West Bank, because Israel never fulfilled its commitment to the PLO to set one up.

Of course, there was a bureaucratic excuse for this. So what? States are supposed to treat people humanely, not screw them just because they can.

Many congresscritters want to deal with the opioid problem by being "tough" on everyone except drug companies.

Laws to restrict "overprescribing" end up being tough on people that suffer from pain. There is no cut-and-dried way to distinguish between feeding a habit and treating pain; to cut down on the former tends to cut down on the latter.

China's face-recognition tracking system has been set up in Ecuador.