The "Internet of Things", and keeping people "connected" through servers run by companies, is a scheme for total control of the population.

It is too bad that the article ends with an obligatory rejection of Luddism, because Luddism simply means being selective about which technologies to accept. If we are to consider rejecting a technology that companies wish to impose on us, rather than ineffectually complaining about it, we must first be Luddites.

California has passed a very weak law against the worst kind of abuses by companies that collect data about students from schools. Now Obama proposes a similarly weak federal law, with a weak voluntary policy as backup alternative.

Schools should not allow companies to collect any data about their students. If a school creates an account on a Microsoft, Apple or Google server for a student, under the student's name, that is already a violation of the student's privacy.

The IMF bullied Ukraine, on Monsanto's behalf, to change various agricultural laws in favor of corporate GMO plantations.

California's new system of groundwater rights is weak and won't take effect for six more years. In the mean time, new almond plantations are taking up more water, leaving others without any.

India blocked an Indian Greenpeace leader from flying to London for an event, based on false accusations.