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Sistah Robot 👺Sep 27, 2018

Aurélien Grosdidier ✅Sep 27, 2018

#Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information | #privacy #shadowprofile #2FA https://gizmodo.com/facebook-is-giving-advertisers-access-to-your-shadow-co-1828476051

Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information

Last week, I ran an ad on Facebook that was targeted at a computer science professor named Alan Mislove. Mislove studies how privacy works on social networks and had a theory that Facebook is letting advertisers reach users with contact information collected in surprising ways. I was helping him test the theory by targeting him in a way Facebook had previously told me wouldn’t work. I directed the ad to display to a Facebook account connected to the landline number for Alan Mislove’s office, a number Mislove has never provided to Facebook. He saw the ad within hours.

Sistah Robot 👺Aug 26, 2018

Open Culture Aug 26, 2018

Crime Jazz: How Miles Davis, Count Basie & Duke Ellington Created Soundtracks for Noir Films & TV https://goo.gl/IkAfXx https://t.co/PfBtzOsClB

Crime Jazz: How Miles Davis, Count Basie & Duke Ellington Created Soundtracks for Noir Films & TV

When we think of film noir, we tend to think of a mood best set by a look: shadow and light (mostly shadow), grim but visually rich weather, near-depopulated urban streets.

Open Culture

Sistah Robot 👺May 12, 2018

Service Meant to Monitor Inmates’ Calls Could Track You, Too

A company catering to law enforcement and corrections officers has raised privacy concerns with a product that can locate almost anyone’s cellphone across the United States.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/technology/cellphone-tracking-law-enforcement.html

https://mastodon.social/media/_Er0cWEtSsWlbUQTq28

Service Meant to Monitor Inmates’ Calls Could Track You, Too

A company catering to law enforcement and corrections officers has raised privacy concerns with a product that can locate almost anyone’s cellphone across the United States.

The New York Times

Sistah Robot 👺Apr 19, 2018

Palantir Knows Everything About You

Peter Thiel's data-mining company is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel/

https://mastodon.social/media/apPRmbAN_gTe7QzwpLs

Palantir Knows Everything About You

Peter Thiel's data-mining company is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens.

Bloomberg.com

Sistah Robot 👺Apr 18, 2018

r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖Apr 18, 2018

I was looking at some of the concepts for the X-38 CRV (Crew Return Vehicle). It was planned to allow 7 astronauts to return from the ISS during an emergency. ISS crews are limited by the evacuation capacity of docked spacecraft so that meant 3 at a time with the Soyuz

The X-38 seems like a very well-thought out craft. It's a shame it never got completed. The program was cancelled by NASA at 90% completion which was a pretty controversial decision