Interviews with young US climate activists.

29 parents that US immigration prisons deported away from their offspring have been able to apply for asylum.

License-plate readers have been proliferating across the US, making it nearly impossible to drive around cities (and even some small towns) without your movements' being recorded.

They are now used by companies to hound poor people, as well as by cities to fine poor people.

It could also come in handy against heroic whistleblowers.

I am sure things are much worse today than what was describes in that article from 2016.

This tracking is a building block for a Chinese-style "social credit" system. If we want to avoid that bad end, it is not sufficient to regulate how the data collected are used. We need to make most of those cameras disappear. Regulating use of the data might achieve that end, if the regulation entirely precludes the usage that was funding the cameras. Otherwise, it's inadequate.

Albert Woodfox writes about 40 years in solitary confinement in Angola State Prison.

Award-winning Egyptian journalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid has been a political prisoner for over 5 years. He was given a typical Egyptian trial for political prisoners. Starting now, he is being allowed to leave jail during the daytime.

I cancelled a planned speaking trip to Egypt just after the coup. I urge people not to visit Egypt until the country becomes less repressive.