The Dutch digital privacy agency accuses Windows 10 of failing to give users enough information about its surveillance to permit their informed consent.

The agency is trying to do the right thing, but a requirement for informed consent by the user is not enough to protect the public against companies whose use is seen by users as effectively required for life.

Poor people have to buy everything pay-as-you-go, and that is often more expensive.

Ironically, in some cases pay-as-you-go is the only anonymous option, so I choose it even if it costs more. Fortunately, I can afford that extra cost.

On the neighborhood cooperative movement in Catalonia and its political importance.

Studying oligarchies: how they function and how they maintain their power.

The crucial moral point about a "civil oligarchy", which maintains its power through laws, is that laws designed to keep an oligarchy in power do not deserve to be obeyed.

The region south of the Sahara Desert now hosts various jihadi guerrilla groups.