Battle Against Tobacco Epidemic Is Far from Won.

Pressuring Bahrain to cancel executions of people whose trials were thoroughly unfair.

Private use of face tracking is widespread and dangerous, but the proposed regulations only aim at use by public agencies. Not enough!

Government surveillance cameras watching the street are a great disguise for private surveillance cameras put up by nobody-knows-who.

Surveillance cameras — cameras transmitting video somewhere else — should be illegal except when authorized by a court for a specific place and period of time.

To make Amazon pay its fair share of taxes, and Apple, Google, Facebook and others too, we need to see their tax returns. Let's change tax law to publish the tax returns of corporations.

We could extend this to every company that files a separate tax return, or to every company that isn't a sole proprietorship.

With that exception, it would respect personal privacy adequately,

Debunking Microsoft's anti-Right-to-Repair FUD.

Bravo for the article, but one quotation falls into a widespread confusion: that spread by the term "intellectual property".

and "If you hire a managed service provider to do your network security they could, instead,... steal your intellectual property."

In general, that statement is false. It could not steal your copyrights, or your patents, or your trademarks, or your plant variety monopolies, or your IC mask monopolies, or your publicity rights — those are legal privileges, so they can't be "stolen". I think the only things it could possibly steal that way are trade secrets.

Please don't ever say "intellectual property" if what you mean is "trade secrets"". or if what you mean is "copyrights", or if what you mean is any other specific thing, because that is a big generalization. It is likely to convert a narrow true statement into a broad false one.

If you think that what you mean is all of them, then please study the issue more carefully — a statement so general is usually false, and probably most of them are not even relevant to the issue at hand.

If you want to quote a statement where someone else used the term "intellectual property", please check whether the statement was false due to this confusion. Any statement that used that term probably was confused.