US citizens: call for a racist federal judge to be disciplined.

How supermarkets get data about their customers, and what they do with it.

You can protect yourself by (1) not using a buyer's card, (2) paying cash, and (3) not using any coupons that are given to you by the store when you purchase. (You could trade them with someone else and confuse the store.)

Various experts and activists consider how to reconcile the leak about PRISM with the statements by company executives that they have not allowed the US to establish back doors.

The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that a warrant is required to install a GPS tracker in a car.

That's the way it should be: tracking cannot be started without a warrant.

Unfortunately, for anyone who has a portable phone, the tracking is done all the time, and the data can be collected (with or without a warrant) retroactively. This is tantamount to maintaining a dossier about every person, which the state can look at retrospectively at any time.

The US needs a new Church Committee to deal with the NSA's massive surveillance.