ProPublicaIn #Washington, a #GOP #redistricting commissioner finished work on helping make the state’s #voting maps.
And then he turned around and secretly engineered a #lawsuit to challenge the very maps he'd helped create.
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Brian TransplantSupport your #library. Even if you don't borrow anything:
- Stop in and get a card, to help their numbers
- See what services they offer. You might even need one.
- See what groups and events they might be hosting
- See what else they have to lend, other than just books
Courtney Heard 🇨🇦Once you realize that he works for Russia, not America, everything he does makes sense.
Alexf24Alexey Navalny
#Navalny #AlexeiNavalny #Putin #Russia #MAGA #Crime #Law #Trump #TrumpIsaLoser
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"PLEA FROM THE FRONT!"
"I feel so exhausted, so heartbroken. I'm a father myself and the worst thing in the world is to receive news about children's deaths (after hearing about yesterday's Russian bombing of Odessa)
I urge everyone who is able to help us, especially from the US, please act. We beg you!“
- Front line Ukrainian soldier
Please boost this post and spread the word. Contact MAGA Republicans who are blocking aid
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Pseudo NymNew proposal. Any company that thinks LLMs can replace "creatives" and make reasonable business decisions should logically replace the CEO first. Biggest expense automated = biggest savings, right?
Save salary and stock options. Distribute to remaining employees.
Work your way down the org chart. Repeat.
Tom SullivanYou're tall for a moral midget. https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnns-manu-raju-corners-a-sputtering-jim-jordan-over-discredited-fbi-informant
BrianKrebsThe Federal Trade Commission has hit Avast with a $16.5 million fine over allegations that it told customers it would protect their security and privacy but then gave data about their browsing to a subsidiary called Jumpshot.
The issue came to light in Dec. 2019, when Mozilla removed four Firefox extensions made by Avast and its subsidiary AVG after receiving reports the extensions were harvesting user data and browsing histories.
From the FTC's presser:
"Avast rebranded Jumpshot as an analytics company, which advertised that its “[m]ore than 100 million online consumers worldwide” would give Jumpshot’s clients “unique insights to make better business decisions.”
"Jumpshot further claimed to give its clients the ability to “see where your audience is going before and after they visit your site or your competitors’ sites, and even track those who visit a specific URL.” Of course, Jumpshot’s source of that massive amount of data about people’s browsing information – some of it highly personal in nature – that it sold to advertising companies, data brokers, individual brands, search engine optimizing outfits, and others looking for detailed information about consumers’ browsing histories was Avast, the company that pitched its products as a solution to intrusive online surveillance."
"According to the complaint, Jumpshot provided its clients with “extraordinary detail regarding how consumers navigated the Internet, including each webpage visited, precise timestamp, the type of device and browser, and the city, state, and country.” What’s more, most of the data included a unique and persistent device identifier, which allowed Jumpshot and its clients to trace individuals across multiple domains over time. The FTC says that included in the information Jumpshot sold was data about consumers’ visits to sites about religious matters, political candidates, health concerns like breast cancer, jobs at secure military facilities, student loan application information, dating interests, and sites of an adult nature. The complaint puts it this way: “The vast majority of consumers would not know that the Avast Software would surveil their every move on the Internet or that their browsing information might be sold to more than 100 third parties and stored indefinitely, in granular, re-identifiable form.”
FTC says Avast promised privacy, but pirated consumers’ data for treasure
When uttered by a pirate, “Avast!” is a nautical term for “Listen up and cut it out.” And when the FTC says “Avast!” to software company Avast, it means the same thing. UK-based Avast Limited told consumers that using its software would protect their privacy by preventing the tracking and collection of their browser information. But according to the FTC, from 2014 to 2020, guess who was tracking consumers’ browser information and then selling it to more than 100 other companies through an affiliate called Jumpshot? Ironically enough, Avast Limited. We’re not sure how much the $16.5 million financial remedy is in doubloons, but we hope the terms of the proposed settlement will remind other companies to relegate conduct like that to Davy Jones’ Locker.