Memorial, a Russian NGO, defends human rights and teaches about Stalin's crimes against humanity. It showed a movie about the mass starvation of the 1930s, and a gang attacked the showing, apparently with state backing.

Putin is teaching Russians to admire Stalin, perhaps figuring that if they admire one tyrant they will be happy with another.

Bangladesh is moving thousands of Rohingya refugees to a low-lying island where they could all drown.

US citizens: call on Congress to prohibit Facebook's approach to data collection.

Note that "collecting, purchasing or otherwise acquiring user information beyond what is needed to provide the service" is often interpreted in a weak way. If an organization can justify collecting certain data because its way of implementing the job requires that data, it can easily make any data "necessary".

(satire) *Trump Testing 2024 Waters By Burning State Capitol To Ground.*

A judge in England ruled that using an Amazon Ring snooping device that watched and listened to a neighbor's property violated her privacy, so he awarded her substantial damages.

(She had actually moved to another home to avoid the surveillance.) As I see it, what makes these "security" cameras in fact surveillance cameras is that they can transmit the video and audio over the network. That capability makes them surveillance cameras rather than security cameras.