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Privacy Concerns

When We Fail To Understand Privacy As A Set Of Trade-Offs, Everyone’s ‘Solutions’ Are Unhelpful

from the not-going-to-fix-anything dept Last week, Karl wrote up a fascinating post about a NY Times effort to use a dataset that a whistleblower at a data broker firm gave them to track the whereabouts of President Trump, by spotting the location data of wh…

bubmagDecember 25, 2019

Blockchain

IBM-backed distributed ledger startup Hedera Hashgraph asks investors to opt into waiting longer for purchased tokens, to help stabilize their cratering price (Paddy Baker/CoinDesk)

bubmagDecember 24, 2019

Astroturfing

When Rankin met Carole Cadwalladr – The Drum

This interview first appeared in The Drum's print edition in October 2019. You can still pick up a copy of that issue here, and you can subscribe to The Drum magazine here. Rankin: One of the weirdest things about the last three years is that your story wasn…

bubmagDecember 24, 2019

Hrant Dink

Trump administration trying to protect Erdogan from U.S. sanctions bill

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration is trying to protect Turkey from new U.S. sanctions and is seeking to get the full Senate to reject a bill that would punish Turkey for its purchase of Russian military equipment and for its attack on the Kurds in Syria. …

bubmagDecember 24, 2019

New York City

Billionaire for President Used Prison Labor to Place Campaign Calls

Former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg has reportedly severed ties with a company that used prison labor to place calls on behalf of Bloombergs presidential campaign, the Intercept reports. The Bloomberg campaign had contracted ProCom, a New Jerseybased c…

bubmagDecember 24, 2019

Filter Bubble

Don’t believe everything you read on social media and 7 other tough lessons of the decade – CNET

Anything you do online can come back to bite you. Angela Lang/CNET This story is part of The 2010s: A Decade in Review, a series on the memes, people, products, movies and so much more that have influenced the 2010s. It's been a decade overflowing with tou…

bubmagDecember 24, 2019

NSA

Realme promises a January 7 reveal for the X50, its first 5G phone

After a string of budget releases that have made Realme a force to be reckoned with, the former OPPO subsidiary has turned its sights toward the higher end of the smartphone space. The Realme X2 Pro was the company's first true flagship, featuring a top-of-th…

bubmagDecember 24, 2019

Jerusalem Controversy

ANALYSIS – ICC Chief Prosecutor exposed

Last Friday the International Criminal Court (ICC) became the latest UN body that chose to side with the Palestinian Arabs and to go after Israel. After finishing her preliminary investigation into Israeli and Palestinian actions in Gaza, eastern Jerusalem, …

bubmagDecember 24, 2019

Unwelcome Refugees

162 migrants and refugees rescued off Libya land in Italy: NGO

More than 160 migrants and refugees rescued off the Libyan coast have disembarked in the southern Italian port of Taranto, the NGO SOS Mediterranee said on Tuesday. The migrants, including 50 children and five pregnant women, "were rescued by the SOS Mediter…

bubmagDecember 24, 2019

Drones

Pyka and its autonomous, electric crop-spraying drone land $11M seed round

Modern agriculture involves fields of mind-boggling size, and spraying them efficiently is a serious operational challenge. Pyka is taking on the largely human-powered spray business with an autonomous winged craft and, crucially, regulatory approval. Just a…

bubmagDecember 24, 2019

When We Fail To Understand Privacy As A Set Of Trade-Offs, Everyone’s ‘Solutions’ Are Unhelpful

IBM-backed distributed ledger startup Hedera Hashgraph asks investors to opt into waiting longer for purchased tokens, to help stabilize their cratering price (Paddy Baker/CoinDesk)

When Rankin met Carole Cadwalladr – The Drum

Trump administration trying to protect Erdogan from U.S. sanctions bill

Billionaire for President Used Prison Labor to Place Campaign Calls

Don’t believe everything you read on social media and 7 other tough lessons of the decade – CNET

Realme promises a January 7 reveal for the X50, its first 5G phone

ANALYSIS – ICC Chief Prosecutor exposed

162 migrants and refugees rescued off Libya land in Italy: NGO

Pyka and its autonomous, electric crop-spraying drone land $11M seed round

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