Putting body cameras on thugs won't help without good policies for their use.

I've proposed an automatic system to stop thugs from turning them off before attacking people.

The US Justice Department prosecutes fewer corporations nowadays, though the number of potential cases has risen.

The EFF summarizes several systems of governmental massive non-internet surveillance in the US.

https://www.eff.org/files/2015/10/06/eff_police_tech_primer_-_nacole_2015_v.3.pdf - eff-police-primer.pdf

It doesn't mention remote-viewing cameras mounted at fixed sites, but these do massive surveillance in places such as New York City.

Merely putting limits on the use of the massive dossiers that these systems collect about each person is not sufficient to reduce our level of surveillance to below that of the Soviet Union. We need to eliminate these systems or redesign them so that they can only "see" court-designated targets.

Former CIA agent Sabrina De Sousa, accused by Italy of participating in a CIA kidnaping there, has been arrested in Portugal and may be sent to Italy.

She was convicted in absentia, and I think she will get a new trial if she is delivered to Italy.

This is so juicy!

The latest bogus argument for burning more coal — for rural poor who are not on the electric grid and thus can't make use of coal anyway.

Solar power is what those people could really use.