Showing posts with label data mining. Show all posts
Showing posts with label data mining. Show all posts
Thursday, April 05, 2018

Facebook reveals that as many as 87 million people may have had their data stolen by Cambridge Analytica.

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Seriously, what in the hell would make you trust me? Courtesy of the New York Times :   Facebook on Wednesday said that the data of up...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Facebook stocks plunge as the FTC launches investigation into data sharing practices. Update!

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Courtesy of NBC News :   Shares of Facebook cratered as much as 6 percent Monday after the Federal Trade Commission announced it is inve...
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Saturday, May 23, 2015

FBI admits that no major acts of terrorism have been prevented by the Patriot Act.

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Courtesy of The Washington Times :   FBI agents can’t point to any major terrorism cases they’ve cracked thanks to the key snooping powe...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

President Obama seeks end to the NSA's bulk data mining.

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President Obama in Hague. Courtesy of Fox Politics :   President Obama is calling on Congress to pass new legislation that would prev...
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

President Obama's holiday reading indicates that there may well be big changes coming to the NSA.

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Courtesy of The Daily Beast :   Before he left for Hawaii, the president was sending signals that government surveillance programs nee...
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Saturday, July 27, 2013

Bill Maher's final New Rule from last night: "If Ben Franklin writes something smart, but Sarah Palin tweets it twice and puts it on Facebook, THAT cancels it out!"

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He makes some very good, and humorous, points. By the way, you can see the entire program by clicking here .
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

The tide of public opinion has turned on Edward Snowden.

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Courtesy of Business Insider :   The American public's views of National Security Agency leak source Edward Snowden have flipped in ...
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Monday, July 15, 2013

Among documents stolen by Edward Snowden is the detailed blueprint for how the NSA works. Uh oh!

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Courtesy of Boston.com :   Edward Snowden has very sensitive ‘‘blueprints’’ detailing how the National Security Agency operates that wou...
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Sunday, July 14, 2013

Okay if this happens, and it is verifiable, then I will hail Edward Snowden as a hero from now on. I promise.

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Courtesy of RT :   In the wake of NSA leaker Edward Snowden’s recent revelations, the Obama administration may be willing to backtrack ...
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Thursday, July 11, 2013

Sean Hannity's epic flip flop on the NSA spying program. Must be seen to be believed.

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Well of course this is easy for conservatives to explain away. George Bush did it to protect Americans from dangerous terrorists, so it ...
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Friday, July 05, 2013

Protestors use Fourth of July holiday to voice their concerns over domestic spying by NSA. Update!

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Courtesy of CNET : About 500 people met in Union Square to listen to a number of privacy advocates and civil liberties groups discuss Fo...
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Friday, June 28, 2013

Edward Snowden might find himself stranded as Ecuador cools to the idea of allowing him into the country. Update!

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Courtesy of The Guardian :   President Rafael Correa halted an effort to help Snowden leave Russia amid concern Assange was usurping the...
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"They should be shot." Edward Snowden's opinion of those that leaked top secret documents to journalists. Nope, no hypocrisy here.

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Edward Snowden Courtesy of The Washington Post :   When he was working in the intelligence community in 2009, Edward Snowden, the Nati...
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Traditional liberal groups are pulling away from President Obama. Update!

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This whole NSA surveillance revelation has had the result of making groups that are traditionally liberal to become disenchanted with the ...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Hot mic catches NSA Director telling FBI Deputy Director "Tell your boss I owe him another friggin' beer." You're NOT helping.

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Courtesy of the Daily Mail :   The director of the National Security Agency was overheard offering a round of beer to the FBI's sec...
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Friday, June 14, 2013

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says man at center of NSA scandal is lying.

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Courtesy of TPM :   The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Thursday that the man who leaked information about National Se...
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

In my opinion this conversation on "Now with Alex Wagner" this morning was the MOST interesting discussion about why, and when, we trust our government with our privacy and why, and when, we don't.

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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy Courtesy of MSNBC :   In his book, “The Twilight of the E...
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Monday, June 10, 2013

Too soon?

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Well it made me laugh. And if we are going to lose our privacy we might as well hang on to our sense of humor.
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Sunday, June 09, 2013

Sarah Palin suddenly VERY concerned about data gathering, now that a black man is in charge of it.

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"Look there's a bandwagon I can jump onto to get some attention." Courtesy of the Tin-hatted Twit's Facebook page : ...
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Friday, June 07, 2013

Rachel Maddow takes a deep dive into our lack of privacy, the government's domestic spying program, and why we should or should not be upset by it. Update!

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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy A whole lot of you were upset yesterday by my post yesterda...
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