A Hong Kong publisher, in Chinese hands, says he has renounced his UK citizenship.

I hope the UK has the guts to say he can't surrender his citizenship while in under some other government's power.

Activists and tech companies are deadlocked in a dispute about proposed privacy protection schemes that would be woefully inadequate.

They would be a more codified form of today's "privacy policies", which are hardly worth paying attention to.

Once data are collected, they will be misused — by rogue staff, by criminal crackers (please don't call them "hackers"), and by the US and other governments, and probably by the company too, because its "privacy policy" allows harmful use.

What we need is to stop systems from collecting the data.

The proposed "data protection" deal between the EU and the US over personal data of Europeans is bogus, since it does nothing to resist NSA bulk surveillance.

Press Release: "Privacy Shield" Is The Same Unsafe Harbour.

Towns in the UK are banning activities such as sleeping or begging in public, just as critics predicted they would.

Funding better education for girls in Africa is a very efficient way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions there.

It's not enough, though — we also have to cut down in emissions in other parts of the world.