What the state could find out with location data from tracking you and other people you know.

Tobacco companies pay corrupt governments to use trade treaties to block anti-smoking measures.

These murderous treaties must be destroyed!

The Islamist fanatics in Syria greatly outnumber the secular rebels and are better equipped. Thus, if Assad's regime is replaced, the replacement will be worse.

The next threat from Facebook: using AI to figure out more about you.

If you refuse to be one of Facebook's useds and tell the AI about yourself, it will do what it can with the data it gets from Facebook surveillance — plus what other people tell it about you.

The practice of making computers to last a short time and be replaced tremendously increases the quantity of toxic e-waste.

This also increases the demand for certain minerals to the point that armies fight over mines in Africa.

Banning the shipment of e-waste to poor countries is proving ineffective. Requiring a 3-year warranty for every computer sold might do a better job. Many of the purchasers would demand warranty service, so the manufacturers would have to make their products cheaper to repair. In addition, a lot of the waste would end up in the hands of authorized service agents. Regulating its disposal by them would be easier.