For decades, U.S. politicians leaders utterly refused to support most meaningful privacy protections for consumers. They opposed any nationwide privacy law, however straightforward. They opposed privacy rules for broadband ISPs. They also fought tooth and nail to ensure the nation’s top privacy enforcement agency, the FTC, lacked the authority, staff, funds, or resources to actually do its job.
State TikTok Bans Are A Dumb Performance And Don’t Fix The Actual Underlying Problem
Tag: Accountability
South Dakota Bans Government Employees From Using TikTok. The Countless Other Apps And Services That Hoover Up And Sell Sensitive Data Are Fine, Though
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem put on a bit of a performance this week by announcing that the state would be banning government employees from installing TikTok on their phones. The effort, according to the Governor, is supposed to counter the national security risk of TikTok sharing consumer data with the Chinese government:
South Dakota Bans Government Employees From Using TikTok. The Countless Other Apps And Services That Hoover Up And Sell Sensitive Data Are Fine, Though
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Oracle Cloud Data Center Locations
Oracle’s coziness with [US] government goes back to its founding
TikTok is such a danger, to national security, that US politicians have used it for campaigning, a tool of war propaganda, and former NATO employees work for them! Besides, TikTok stores user data with Oracle! This moral panic, over TikTok, is all about competition!
Sheila Bair, Former Chair of the FDIC, Is Now an “Organizer/Director” of a Cayman Islands Crypto Company that Got a U.S. National Bank Charter Last Year
On November 17, Sheila Bair, the former Chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) during the financial crisis of 2008, went on CNBC to lament the lack of controls leading to the collapse of the crypto currency exchange, FTX. During the interview, Bair used the phrase “nobody looking behind the curtain.”
Sheila Bair, Former Chair of the FDIC, Is Now an “Organizer/Director” of a Cayman Islands Crypto Company that Got a U.S. National Bank Charter Last Year
Related (why no one was prosecuted for the financial crisis of 2007–2008 + another comment):
Read More »Top House Republicans Call for Biden to Send Longer Range Weapons to Ukraine to Strike Crimea
Reps. Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Mike Turner (R-OH) appeared on ABC News’s This Week on Sunday and pledged that aid for Ukraine will continue to flow unimpeded once Republicans have a majority in the House in January.
Top House Republicans Call for Biden to Send Longer Range Weapons to Ukraine to Strike Crimea
Colombia’s First Leftist President Charts a New Path on Venezuela + Government of Venezuela and Opposition Resume Mexico Talks
Colombia’s First Leftist President Charts a New Path on Venezuela
While critics derided the meeting as just another propaganda spectacle for Maduro, Petro has sent a signal to opposition parties in Colombia and the international community, particularly the United States, to rethink its approach if they hope to improve relations and achieve a successful political transition in Venezuela.
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Guaidó’s possible change of status occurs just as the opposition coalition establishes the rules to select the unitary candidate who will compete in the next presidential elections in 2024.
So Biden can support a new interim president for Venezuela.
Government of Venezuela and Opposition Resume Mexico Talks: What Is on the Table? (+Alex Saab)
Still skeptical of Gustavo Petro.
Sweden Expands Espionage Law, Endangering Freedom of Journalists and Whistleblowers
Sweden’s parliament adopted a major espionage law expansion that will permit the country’s police to investigate journalists, publishers, and whistleblowers if they reveal secret information that “may damage Sweden’s relationship with another state or an international organization.”
Sweden Expands Espionage Law, Endangering Freedom of Journalists and Whistleblowers
Will FBI probe into Abu Akleh killing be a cover-up?
The Department of Justice in Washington has reportedly informed its Israeli counterpart that the FBI is investigating the death of Shireen Abu Akleh, six months after she was killed while covering a military raid in the northern occupied West Bank.
Will FBI probe into Abu Akleh killing be a cover-up?
US Announces $4.5 Billion in Direct Budgetary Aid for Ukraine
According to the Treasury Department, the new package brings total US budgetary aid for Ukraine to $13 billion
US Announces $4.5 Billion in Direct Budgetary Aid for Ukraine
Biden Administration Urges Courts to Dismiss Lawsuit Against Mohammed bin Salman
The Department of State maintains that foreign heads of state, such as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, cannot be sued in American civil courts.
Biden Administration Urges Courts to Dismiss Lawsuit Against Mohammed bin Salman
Why Is AP Still Protecting the Source Behind its False Russia-Bombed-Poland Story?
AP’s source claimed Russian missiles hit Poland. This seemed calculated to set off a frenzy and trigger NATO articles to create a wider war. Why won’t the AP tell us who the falsifying source is?
Why Is AP Still Protecting the Source Behind its False Russia-Bombed-Poland Story?
No coincidence that Burns had been in Kiev the day that the missiles hit Poland. /s
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