Naturalized US citizens now face the terrifying threat of having their citizenship taken away without their even being informed.

US thugs will hunt desperately for an excuse to arrest someone. Chicago artist Tashif Turner had a permit to paint a mural, but he didn't have it with him, so they arrested him. But it gets worse.

"Aggression detector" systems for schools throw an alarm whenever someone's voice sounds "stressed".

Even if the system were entirely accurate, attempting to use it would make people more stressed. Only a tiny fraction of these events represent people who are about to attack someone. In the rest of the cases, bothering them will only make their lives more miserable and more stressed.

Suppose you are a teacher or school principal. How could use use these data without making the school worse? You can't. So don't use it.

The (so-called) Self-Driving Car Is a Surveillance Tool.

I say "so-called" because remote-drive software has already been developed, Unless you own the car and the software that controls it is free/libre, you cannot ever be confident that it is driving itself rather than being driven under someone else's control.

The madness of people influenced by Instagram is causing trouble for the rest of us.

The simplest way to stop Instagram from annoying your life is to stop using it and stop paying attention to it6.