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by mlb_hn 8y ago
For the USG, it's currently authorized under Executive Order 12333 ( https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/execu... ). Paragraph 2.1 states "2.1 Need. Accurate and timely information about
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by mlb_hn 8y ago
Sounds like more to do with not taking battlefield conditions/training into consideration. When push comes to shove, if you give people cool tech, unless it's easy to mindlessly pick up and use they won't use it. When I was i
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by mlb_hn 8y ago
Yep. There have been lots of studies starting in the 1950s showing that journalism wasn't as objective as they wanted to be starting with White's study on "The Gate Keeper" and implicit bias in stories ( http:/&#x2
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Facebook House Energy and Commerce Answers for the Record [pdf](docs.house.gov)
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by mlb_hn 8y ago
That is accurate: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/obama-administration-set... Background on FOIA: Basically, in 1966 the US Government created the Freedom of Information Act that allowed people to ask for reco
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by mlb_hn 8y ago
This is a followup to the first article where they confused the ability to use a device to access Facebook functionality (e.g. upload photos) without using the app or browser with giving a third party the ability to access Friend data. The
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by mlb_hn 8y ago
I'm not sure it's meaningless. It seems to me that there is a distinction between [device manufacturer X is building their own copy of Facebook's graph by acquiring friend data] vs [device manufacturer X allows a user to logi
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by mlb_hn 8y ago
Facebook's making the distinction between allowing a device to offer Facebook-like services (which require Facebook functionality) and third-party apps that suck up all your friend data. On the one hand, Facebook's got a point, th
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by mlb_hn 8y ago
Agree with FB on this one. The privacy issue with 3rd party developers was that friend data was sent to the 3rd party developer databases. Here, the data just stays on the device. The way the article is titled can make it look like the devi
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by mlb_hn 8y ago
It makes sense that something like that is needed. Right now, the media is essentially throwing the bones - there isn't really a way to evaluate much less track what's been correct and incorrect over time, so there's no justi
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by mlb_hn 8y ago
To clear up your question, I believe it was Facebook that identified the ads as being of Russian origin and specifically purchased by Internet Research Agency (and then provided to Congress)
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by mlb_hn 8y ago
I fundamentally disagree with that position, although I suspect that question may play a factor into the current partisan divide and the upcoming elections.
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by mlb_hn 8y ago
That could be accurate. That's not the point though - the issue is that there are all these articles being written about North Korea wanting a peace treaty as if it's something new, when North Korea's always wanted the peace
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by mlb_hn 8y ago
North Korea has wanted a peace treaty for some time. E.g. 2016 Rand did an analysis on North Korea wanting a peace treaty to get the US to withdraw from South Korea ( https://www.rand.org/blog/2016/05/behind-no
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by mlb_hn 9y ago
Has anyone been able to figure out where the ad interests from web traffic are?
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Zuckerberg won’t give a straight answer on data downloads(techcrunch.com)
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by mlb_hn 9y ago
That and one can't help notice the irony that on all these articles they're still trying to load the Facebook trackers in addition to the others (not to beat a dead horse).
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If Congress Doesn't Understand Facebook, What Hope Do Its Users Have?(wired.com)
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Don’t just blame Facebook for taking your data(theguardian.com)
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by mlb_hn 9y ago
Answering that question may be the purpose of this request - since no one knows the state of discourse prior to or after any identified propaganda/ads, it's rather hard to assign any impact. By monitoring the discourse, DHS can th
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Russia's influence is much more than propaganda and fake news(euronews.com)
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Macron on how AI will shape the future, and threaten democracy(axios.com)
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by mlb_hn 9y ago
There's also selection bias at work here though - the only responses that'll get media attention are the ones that are novel or 'newsworthy' - we aren't seeing the normal boring comments.
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Trump blasts Amazon for hurting the postal service. Is that true?(usatoday.com)
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by mlb_hn 9y ago
This seems like folk-remedies for issues rather than getting into encryption, time-deleting messages and ad-blockers (well, I suppose the last one would probably be bad for their business model). The issue being that despite all the coverag
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Beware the smart toaster: 18 tips for surviving the surveillance age(theguardian.com)
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by mlb_hn 9y ago
It doesn't look like he was jobless the whole time. At 3:01 in the hearing, they get into a discussion regarding Wylie pitching the company he was at in January, 2016, to the VoteLeave people (but not being accepted). Wylie was doing s
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Popular 'FANG' stocks drop most ever as tech backlash grows(cnbc.com)
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Theresa May swaps Blackberry for iPhone(bbc.com)
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Monero Is Less Untraceable Than It Seems(wired.com)
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