California and the US government are considering laws requiring a remote kill switch and erasure feature in all smartphones.

This would make them even more open to attack by the state.

Another danger from massive surveillance: once investigators believe someone is guilty of a crime — any crime — confirmation bias will encourage them to focus on whichever parts of the surveillance information confirm that suspicion, and ignore the parts that say otherwise.

The latest clever idea for persecuting homeless people: Pensacola has banned using a blanket or newspaper to protect oneself from the weather.

Everyone who supported that deserves to be sentenced to a year of homelessness.

GMOs Are Killing the Bees, Butterflies, Birds and... ?

For the US government, leaks from people who like drones are good; leaks from people who don't like drones are bad.