Implanted brain-computer interfaces would bring digital insecurity to people's brains.

The necessary starting point for Computer security is free software. Security for brain-computer interfaces requires insisting that the software that controls the interface be free. This includes not only the firmware in the device itself, but also other software that will tell the firmware how to influence your brain.

For the paper referenced there, see http://sci-hub.cc/downloads/ef93/pycroft2016.pdf.

People who can see where you made social media posts can easily figure out where you live.

This is not just a reason to ask Twitter not to tell others where you were when you posted. It is a reason not to let Twitter know where you posted, by connecting through Tor.

50,000 people die annually, in just the US and UK, from resistance to antibiotics.

To a large extent, this is due to factory farms that keep animals in crowded conditions and give them all antibiotics to avoid the diseases that would result. They are killing us.

The UK has launched a program to reduce or eliminate indiscriminate antibiotic use in farm animals. Finally, political will to confront the issue.

As new antibiotics are developed, it should be absolutely forbidden to use them in animals.

A new surveillance robot carries microphones and cameras, and can scan the license plates of all the cars it sees.

It sends the data it collects to a company's server, which means the data can be misused by the company, by the state, and by whatever criminals get into the data base. That is the worst possible scenario, but it is standard practice.

Listening and watching systems such as this should be prohibited by law, except when authorized by a court for a specific place and time period.

The Koch brothers are already giving lots of money to congressional candidates.