The EU has agreed on strict rules on real time surveillance by biometric recognition. These rules seem pretty good to me — they will allow what society needs, but not much more.

It is not clear to me whether any of these limits apply to searching the millions of hours of stored video footage, which increasingly cover every public place. To preserve justice and privacy, that must be subject to he same rules.

And rules must apply to all private entities that collect or accumulate such data. If they cover public entities only, it will be easy to bypass them.

The rules to limit using algorithms to discriminate between individuals seem to be a big step in the right direction. I can't tell from this article whether they go far enough; maybe only experience with the system that has just been enacted will tell us that.

The dictator of Nicaragua has reached a level of irrational persecution worthy of Stalin or Caligula. Dictator Ortega (or was it his wife?) accused the director of the Miss Nicaragua beauty contest of treason and then arrested her husband and son, all because the contest winner turned out to have participated in a protest against the ruling couple in 2018.

What Britain's government needs to learn in order to deal honestly, rationally and effectively with the next pandemic.

"Project Veritas", the right-wing whistleblower which used misleading edited videos to attack progressive organizations, is floundering.

It is feasible for the world to triple renewable electric generation by 2030, with effort.