Facebook pays its subcontracted workers very little, and treats them in a way that is cruel if not fraudulent. When they demanded better treatment, the subcontractor told them to shut up or quit.

Subcontracting enables Facebook to disclaim legal responsibility for all of this, but morally Facebook is entirely responsible.

If company A buys goods or services from company B, and none of the workers of B are particularly associated with company A's purchase, there is usually no reason to hold A responsible for how B treats workers. But when B is hired to provide people to work for A, morally speaking they are working for A. We should change the law to match the morality.

Collections of genetic data enable the state to identify you if it has records for even a few of your third cousins. This creates various dangers for everyone.

The concept of property does not fit this problem, as the article recognizes. So why propose to think along those lines? It is the ideology of capitalism. If the only tool you have is "ownership", everything looks like a "property".

Working to end the practice of giving pets as gifts to people who may not be prepared to take care of them.

New plants recently discovered are close to extinction due to human activities. Some seem to have become extinct before the finds were categorized and published.

Global heating is enabling rats to increase in New York City.