Biometrics and DNA of imprisoned immigrants could be used to reunite families the US has split up, but could also be used to track and harm them.

A Supreme Court decision will allow credit card companies to prohibit cash discounts.

It could go much further; it might allow middleman companies such as Amazon and Google to impose many kinds of conditions on people as well as other companies.

Facebook was compelled to offer some additional options to limit use of certain kinds of personal data. So it designed the user interface to discourage people from using them.

Working in an Amazon warehouse is like being in prison with a sentence of hard and hurried labor.

The workers don't have breaks even enough to go to the toilet.

A team of doctors propose thorough reform of the US (and Canadian) pharmaceutical system, designed to correct many of the problems of the existing system.

I'm glad to see it includes taking control of clinical trials away from pharma companies. I've advocated this for a long time. We need true clinical trials, rather than funding-perverted c(l)ynical trials.