Staff effectively working for TikTok used TikTok location data to track reporters to try to find staff who were giving interviews to those reporters.

I don't care whether those staff had asked permission. I don't care whether TikTok (or its Chinese owners) are sincere in saying they won't do this again. The problem is that they do collect the data, and are in a position to use it to track people if they decide to.

The problem is that the system is designed to require users to trust the good will of the company's staff and management. Such a system must be designed differently so that users' trust not to track people is not an issue.

The fact that some Chinese staff could track the locations of US reporters and their US sources makes the problem additionally grave, but that is not a fundamental change. Enabling the US staff to track the locations of people in the US is dangerous too.

After a series of blows to the Voting Rights Act, what remains, and what have right-wing judges destroyed?

Capturing Soledar would be of little practical significance to the Putin forces. It would not even guarantee they could take Bakhmut; and capturing Bakhmut would likewise be of little practical significance.

The concentration of so many Putinite mercenaries there seems to indicate the lack of capacity to try to do anything strategically significant — at least for now.

Business lobbying blocked bills in Congress intended to regulate PFAs.

*Insurers Are Fighting To Protect Their Medicare Fraud.*