After public criticism, a national store chain in Australia agreed to stop using facial recognition on customers.

Sad that the organization that criticized this undermined itself by suggesting that maybe this tracking would not be so bad if the company had better informed customers about it.

If the customers were well informed about the practice, the company could argue that they had implicitly consented to being tracked. That means nothing — it is no excuse for establishing universal tracking! Even explicit consent from millions of people would be no excuse. Systematic tracking of people is the soil in which repression grows, and that is an injustice to everyone.

*Biden's executive order on abortion is better than nothing. But not much better.*

Diptheria bacteria are now spreading in Australia due to anti-vax superstition.

Teachers and nurses in the UK are beyond ready to strike. Many are more than ready to quit.

*Our "Normal" Climate Is Dead — Now We Live in an Emergency.*