While the FBI was busy conducting a “planned search” of U.S. President Joe Biden’s Delaware beach house (which follows their search of his Wilmington residence in January and, we just recently learned, the Penn Biden Center in November), Ukrainian officials were carrying out a search at the home of oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky. Why reference them in the same sentence? We’ll return to that.
Fascinating Timing: Home of Ukrainian Oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky Raided
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Woman dies by suicide at UPS Worldport late Wednesday
Woman dies by suicide at UPS Worldport late Wednesday
Free help is available around the clock for those who are at risk of self harm. If you or someone you know needs help, call the National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or visit the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
UPS is trying to silence this story by threatening their employees with termination. The woman was working two jobs.
DOJ Charges Officers For No Knock Warrant Lies That Led To The Killing Of Breonna Taylor
There are very few things that are more dangerous for citizens and cops than no-knock warrants. These warrants allow cops to raid houses without announcing themselves, leading those on the receiving end to assume they’re being invaded by armed criminals.
DOJ Charges Officers For No Knock Warrant Lies That Led To The Killing Of Breonna Taylor
CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders
CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders
The documents reveal the expansive plan the CDC had last year to use location data from a highly controversial data broker. SafeGraph, the company the CDC paid $420,000 for access to one year of data, includes Peter Thiel and the former head of Saudi intelligence [Turki bin Faisal Al Saud] among its investors. Google banned the company from the Play Store in June.
The CDC used the data for monitoring curfews, with the documents saying that SafeGraph’s data “has been critical for ongoing response efforts, such as hourly monitoring of activity in curfew zones or detailed counts of visits to participating pharmacies for vaccine monitoring.” The documents date from 2021.
Zach Edwards, a cybersecurity researcher who closely follows the data marketplace, told Motherboard in an online chat after reviewing the documents: “The CDC seems to have purposefully created an open-ended list of use cases, which included monitoring curfews, neighbor-to-neighbor visits, visits to churches, schools and pharmacies, and also a variety of analysis with this data specifically focused on ‘violence.’” (The document doesn’t stop at churches; it mentions “places of worship.”)
Related:
Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics
Location data broker SafeGraph stops selling information on visits to abortion providers
SafeGraph Provides CDC and 1000+ Organizations With Data to Fight the COVID-19 Crisis
Google Bans Location Data Firm Funded by Former Saudi Intelligence Head:
On its website SafeGraph says “We believe places data should be open for all.” In April 2017, Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, the former head of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence agency, invested in SafeGraph as part of a $16 million Series A funding round. SafeGraph said it had “assembled the deepest policy thinkers.” Beyond Faisal Al Saud, SafeGraph said it had enlisted the help of former U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, author Sam Harris, Meghan O’Sullivan who ran Iraq and Afghanistan policy under President George Bush, former Deputy Chief of Staff to President Obama Mona Sutphen, and former German Minister of Defense Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, among others. Peter Thiel is also an investor in the company.
More investors: SafeGraph Raises $16 Million Series A
Parents: Amir Locke ‘executed’; mayor halts no-knock entries
Parents: Amir Locke ‘executed’; mayor halts no-knock entries
Body camera video released by police Thursday evening shows an officer using a key to unlock the door of a downtown apartment and enter without knocking, followed by at least four officers in uniform and protective vests, time-stamped at about 6:48 a.m.
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