Venezuela has arrested two opposition activists who were registering voters for a possible referendum on President Maduro. They were charged with unrelated crimes, then disappeared.

Chavez faced such a referendum. He did not interfere with it — he won it.

In 2015, courts in the US authorized every single wiretap that was requested.

So either thugs and prosecutors never once tried to overreach, or the courts are failing to do their job of protecting our rights.

Tesla admits it tracks and records when drivers use Autopilot.

I think this snooping is a much bigger issue than the accident itself.

US citizens: call on the Democratic platform committee to take a stand against the TPP.

Eye-Fi cards, which connect cameras to WiFi, depend on proprietary software which depends on servers — which the manufacturer will shut down, making it impossible to configure the cards.

Using proprietary software always puts you under someone's thumb, more or less. When it depends on a server, that is acute nastiness. And that's the way the "Internet of Things" works.

If the purchasers of Eye-Fi cards were wise, they would have rejected the product for this before buying it.