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Police should not make pics and arrest records public in the first place. It's an abuse of governmental power and ongoing cruel and unusual punishment to let them be in the wild.
But, nobody listens to me. So there it is, scammers do what is natural and THAT is illegal.
I am not convinced allowing the Google to grant itself vast censorship, police and surveillance powers is a good thing. It's like they have chosen themselves to be thought police. And when it comes to politics, what isn't fake news?
Meanwhile, Facebook is also creating it's own ministry. Both are greedy corporations whose bottom line in profit, nothing else.
Who administers the administrators?
Mr. Z. can apologize up the kazoo because he knows he is untouchable.
The morons in Congress don't get the internet and have been paid handsomely to stay stupid.
And, let's recall Google and Facebook DID allow NSA access to data and were in talks to set up 'spying rooms' despite denials by Zuckerberg and Page over PRISM project. But, that's old news now.
I recall an auto manufacturer, Ford I think, before FB and Google were everywhere, spent millions of dollars on internet ads. It was assumed that was the future, and so they did.
But, there was a skeptic in the organization. That lead to the company to follow up on the effectiveness of internet ads. They found people hate online ads, virtually never click on them and indeed were a complete waste of money. They dropped the ads and are, miraculously, still in business today.
I wonder if people still hate online ads and never click on them?
Footnote: If we paid for content, even a lot, we would still get ads and granular surveillance. Who or what would stop them?
FB and Google are positioning themselves to be the decider gods of good and evil content.
I wonder though, why didn't I get a vote on that?
Regardless, the internet is a big tent.
I am sure Evil will do quite well with or without interference from our corporate overlords. Good, too.
We need internet communication corporations to do more CENSORSHIP of politically incorrect words and conduct more granular SURVEILLANCE of users in order to find and punish those who would make political incorrect comments.
A good way to FIX the internet would be to ban ENCRYPTION, except for government and corporate approved communication.
The politicians and corporations are ganging up on us. They want absolute control. I think they will win, because most people don't get the message and don't care.
I think this is about corporate ad agencies are moving to work with monolith marketing corporations FB/Google/Et al to clean up the net so they avoid liability, PR disasters and appearances of supporting un-PC content with iron-fist censorship.
Also, they will join the big marketing corporations to oppose any kind of privacy legislation that might prevent them from intimate, panoptic mass surveillance.
This fake kerfuffle is all part of the plan.
The goal is to make sure users are powerless to resist marketing and have access only to pre- approved plain vanilla news and content.
In short, it's about the money. It's always about the money.
This article is proof positive voting itself has become a futile gesture. It gives us the illusion of democratic process. In this case the government itself is covering up criminal interference with an election. Meanwhile, the head law enforcement agency compounds wrong doing by keeping secrets.
“Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.”
Lord Acton
“Examining public records should never require extraordinary legal or bureaucratic efforts. When it does, it’s usually a red flag.”
Don Baldwin
“Sunshine is the greatest disinfectant”
Louis D. Brandeis
True, the government should not be involved.
The issue is about MANNERS. Who wants to listen to dozens of people blabbing away about their pathetic, useless, failed lives in the air? Airlines could issue a rule:
Talking on phone...= not OK.
Texting, surfing, etc, with headphone = OK
(In light of the recent United debacle, airlines could forcefully muzzle anyone violating the rules, per the contract thingy. )
Presumably, Apple has fixed it so there is literally nothing they can due to retrieve data. Or anyone else.
Thus, I don't see a court battle, unless FBI knows something they aren't telling yet.
I suppose one angle might be using this event as proof anti-encryption laws are needed. But, it still wouldn't help FBI in this case.
What am I missing?
Maybe Amazon should use some of their billions of revenue dollars to provide warehouse employees a living wage with humane work conditions rather than fritter money away on pipe dreams. And you know the kind of pipe I am talking about.
Frankly, if this was such a good idea UPS, FedEx maybe even some post offices around the world would be working on it.
Another version of this...idea...included flying blimps. And, of course using little drone thingys to buzz around dropping packages onto the targeted masses when they aren't crashing into innocent pedestrians.
China could ruin quite a few American companies. So could the Koreans and several other copy cat economies.
The focus is usually about the jobs going overseas, but the real crime is and was sending proprietary machinery, a vast storehouse of manufacturing knowledge gathered over several hundred years, access to millions of patents and vast intellectual property absolutely free of charge.
We simply gave it to them, in return for cheap socks that fall apart fast and electronic gizmos that mostly don't do much of anything productive.
I truly believe it could all be stopped but it would need to be done in a way to save next big thing inventions here, the related jobs and for godsakes the innovative knowledge of new stuff right here, not to mention jobs. The Germans are somewhat skillfull at this, and a world export powerhouse.
As for the socks industry, or completely copied designs for electronics, that's a lost cause.
We need to keep the next big thing at home and let them pay us for a change.
TPP allows currency manipulation, foreign countries are allowed to bypass sovereign law, allows human rights and labor rights violations, provides for out sourcing government service jobs, gives banks more power, creates new authority for pharmaceuticals to create monopolies and thus set high prices. And more.
Basically, it's a way for multinational corporations to rule the trade world without meddling my their target market countries.
In short, it creates a law allowing corporate lawlessness.
Naw, the shadow corporate-military government will make quick work of Mr. Trump, the political rube.
They've already trimmed down some of his anti-Isamic comments (got him to take take some inflammatory tweets). If they get their way, he will be promoting global war and bankster-ism in no time at all.
Totally agree. Pedestrians will rule the road.
I am looking forward to being able to get in the front door at the mall store without fear of being run over by some in-a-hurray soccer/football mom.
Indeed, I plan to mess with them. I'll leisurely stop in the crosswalk and check my text messages.
Ain't the future grand?
I have fixed my W10 box to , hopefully, not update or give data to MS at all. That's after several very bad recent experiences not to mention their in your face privacy policy reviions.
I would guess they will look to FaceBook for an update magician who will be very good at pulling rabbits out of a hat while driving the shaft in deep in our backs.
...and again and again and again and...
WhatsApp cost $16 billion dollars. It would be unrealistic to imagine FB would allow users to have any private data or communication at all.
I must admit however, I sort of believed the part about end to end encryption for a short time. I am thinking it's the registration data that went down the rabbit hole, and not just phone numbers. Likely whatever users gave them.
I do wonder how they are capturing, storing and monetizing actual communications. I suppose we will find out in due time.
A Zucker-door?
"...installing computer-friendly traffic signals or embedding wireless guides under the roads or mandating that autonomous cars are painted in one color and human-driven cars in another – is out of the window. It's just not an option."
Sure it's an option. All the corporate-military regime need to is say the magic word: "Security".
That opens the taxpayer till for as many trillions or billions it takes to make us "safe".
This is standard business practice of our corporate overlords.
Give free carrot, add sheep dung to carrot when consumer becomes conditioned to free carrot, force consumer to pay recurring ransom to make the dung taste and smell go away.
Or, of course, you can just eat dung.
So, let's not go there.
However for BC to EVER gain credibility leaders must move towards FDIC type insurance and reliable security measures to assure user some 15 year old kid won't wipe out your life's savings in an eye blink. Apparently, the block chain in itself is not secure at all.
Also, something needs to be done and decided about the extent of BC anonymity. When I go to the market to buy a loaf of bread with money, I don't need to divulge by entire data bank of personal information. NOT SO with bitcoin, they say, by design. WTF?
I suppose in the end BC will be tracked and documented more than any form of value exchange. It's new fangled and thus suspicious you know. Like rock and roll. Computers. The internet.
Buy bitcoin, how hard could that be?
I went through the obligatory ordeal of setting up my own software wallet, on a detachable thumb drive. That's because online exchanges are not secure and subject to regular major thievery. See this article.
Then I tried to buy some bitcoin. WOW! They want ton of personal data, even copies of your passport, selfies, copies of drivers license, bank account numbers, etc. etc. etc. Enough to make you want to puke.
But, guess what, the exchanges themselves don't have a physical address or even a phone number most of the time. It's difficult to discern their country of origin many times. In short, it's a brutal, sketchy one way data street.
And, they LIE a lot. "Instantly" buy bitcoin becomes a few hours, a few business days, a week or two and then they reserve the right to terminate your online account and purchases for the most silly to non-existent reasons.
Finally, I determined I could go to the mall and buy bitcoin at an atm with only scanning the BACK of my drivers license....and did, to ....Hallelujah.....purchase .110 bitcoins. Which now have dropped 15% in value in an eye blink.
If you want to buy something without it being tracked, probed and attacked every which way...go to the drug store and get a money order for less than a dollar...you will be way ahead of the bitcoin scam.
Read this article. It's standard operation procedure.
With mandatory updates and mandatory "upgrade" it was clear to me updates could and would be an ideal corporate-state attack vector to enhance data collection and surveillance. Now that the upgrade deadline is near, clearly it's time to become MORE aggressive.
Any update that borks legitimate group polices is malware, at least.
I love big brother and hope he loves me way big.
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