The EFF proposes prohibiting advertising based on behavioral profiling.

This might substantially reduce the extent of tracking, but won't eliminate the danger from tracking. Only part of the danger comes from online advertising as such. Profiling can be used in other ways than online advertising, including offline political activity, "predictive policing", and state repression. Personal data can be used for other things than profiling in the usual sense.

In particular, the proposed exception to allow advertising based on the user's current location will give companies an excuse to collect the user's current location. This location history will be useful for finding whistleblowers and dissidents.

I fear that the EFF has found a compromise plan that would eliminate a lot of the tracking that annoys individuals, but won't protect society politically at all,

US students from poor families can't afford to go to college because they can't afford to live anywhere near it. That's in addition to the cost of the university itself, which is also prohibitive.

Amory Lovins still enlightens the world about the way increased efficiency of energy use can eliminate most energy use for heating, cooling and transportation.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission reversed its new regulations gently limiting fossil fuel extraction, and approved new projects.

An EU directive will regulate how internet tracking servers use their data.

This directive may boost competition, and limit somewhat the harm that surveillance companies do to the public. But as long as data are collected, they _will_ be misused, and misused by various entities that get the data. This law is inadequate; what we really need to do is make sure people have the right to as much anonymity as we had 30 years ago.