The Wisconsin Supreme Court has essentially destroyed Wisconsin campaign finance law, in a corruptly made decision that applies to the judges' own campaigns.

A year after a thug killed Eric Garner, mothers of various blacks killed by US thugs campaign to prosecute the killers.

The UK government plans to make strikes illegal, usually.

It also plans to interfere with union funding for the Labour Party.

Unions ought to fund a party that really stands for the non-rich, not the center-right party that Labour has become. But the right wing does not want unions or workers to have any power.

The "internet of things", for those who don't reject it, will be the greatest mass surveillance infrastructure ever.

The author fears (and I agree) that it will direct people towards being "intensely individualistic, segmented, micro-financialised" and "semi-autonomous, tethered beings." I too think this is a real danger.

Attacking the argument for government back doors in encryption.

The article does not mention another crucial point: when the state has a concrete reason to suspect someone, enough to justify a search warrant, it can snoop on that person's conversations in many other ways.