The UK spy agency argues it should be allowed to spy on people with hardly any limits, and attack their computers, just because the hypothetical crimes are really bad.

Note the similarity between the argument in favor of massive surveillance and the argument in favor of torture: that it "just might someday" make it possible to prevent a crime. But neither massive surveillance nor torture really does this.

Clinton, like the Republicans, wants more government snooping. She wants to pressure companies into bypassing encryption.

Her bogus premise is that we should keep increasing snooping until it identifies in advance all attacks by small groups. But no amount of surveillance is enough to do that, so she will always have an excuse to demand more surveillance.

Vote for Sanders for president.

The secret negotiations for the Trade In Services Agreement propose to prohibit subsidies, or any sort of preferences, for renewable energy.

This is typical of how "trade treaties" betray the people: subordinating everything that really matters to business interests.

This is based on the leaked text of one chapter.

A week with Hello Barbie: it constantly tells you what good friends you are, then asks you for personal information .

Seems designed to manipulate children into giving personal data.

Christianist terrorists, like Islamist terrorists, believe that their religion authorizes any sort of crimes.