Many Android apps can track users' movements even when the user says not to allow them to.

This involves an apparently unintentional weakness in Android, exploited intentionally by malicious apps. But those apps can't do anything to "your" phone, if you recognize they are proprietary software and won't allow them in your machine.

Warning: parts of Android are proprietary programs too, and many phones sold with Android come with proprietary modifications, even preloaded proprietary apps that the customer may not be informed about. And that's not to mention the proprietary radio software in the modem processor, with its universal back door.

Britain's law against discarding by-catch has been ineffective because British fishermen ignore it.

In one town in Canada, Uber has advanced towards its goal of eliminating other transport options. The town has eliminated its own public transit, replacing it with being spied on by nonfree software.

The bully is basing his campaign on racism, and the saddest thing is that he might win.

The saboteur-in-chief has attacked medical research by banning use of human fetal tissue.

Sooner or later, you will develop a disease that today is fatal. Will it still be fatal when you get it? Understanding and curing some diseases depends on fetal tissue research. Forbidding that research could be your death.