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Urgent: Repression of immigrants

lundi 4 février 2019 à 01:00

US citizens: call on Congress to reject more repression of immigrants and more surveillance of everyone in the name of repression of immigrants.

If you send a message, please spread the word!

US tests face-recognizing on street

dimanche 3 février 2019 à 01:00

The US has secretly tested face-recognizing everyone on the street.

At a border crossing is perhaps the one place where the use of face recognition is not oppressive. To enter the US, each person will be required to show an identity document anyway.

Using face recognition to systematically identify people on the street anywhere else should be illegal outside of special cases.

Sea level rise

dimanche 3 février 2019 à 01:00

As sea level rises, coastal wetlands will have to move inland or the ecosystems and their species will be lost. To preserve them requires making human activities move out of the way.

Powerful new opioids allowed by FDA

dimanche 3 février 2019 à 01:00

The FDA seems unwilling to restrain drug companies from introducing powerful new opioids.

Protester surveilled by UK thugs

dimanche 3 février 2019 à 01:00

Persistent protester John Catt was surveilled for decades by UK thugs because of his politics. He has now won a court order telling them to delete their records about him from a secret surveillance database.

Since the database is secret, how will we know if they really delete it?