New US regulations allow companies to pressure employees to hand over their medical data. It suffices to call the pressure a "wellness program". The penalties for refusing to participate may be severe.

As usual, the "privacy policy" for the data, once handed over, is meaningless.

The EFF continues to demand that the W3C standardize DRM under a rule that protects security researchers from prosecution.

I do not support that demand, because the W3C would still be doing wrong, and harm, if it standardized DRM with that exception. No small exception can excuse support for DRM. The W3C should refuse to betray the users of the World Wide Web.

The EFF article uses the term "white hat" and "black hat" in an unthinking way, assuming that trying to fix a bug is "right" while trying to exploit the bug is "wrong". That's valid most of the time, because most proprietary software does something to serve its users, and most bug exploiters are trying to hurt those users. But there are exceptions, and DRM is one.

DRM software is pure malware: its purpose is to mistreat the users. People who investigate bugs in malware in order to make it mistreat people more reliably should be called "black hat". The white hats are those that find bugs to enable users to break the DRM's chains. To maximize the effect, they should release these bugs in the way that will enable the largest possible escape from DRM.

Microsoft has defeated a US subpoena for data held in Europe.

Zimbabwe Protest Leader Calls for More Strikes Against Mugabe Rule.

Donald Trump Praises Dictators, But Hillary Clinton Befriends Them.

He condemns Clinton for supporting the invasion of Iraq (and I agree), but he chose a running mate who supported it too.