Politics

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Avoids the Company’s Propaganda and Privacy Problems

April 11, 2018 Fox News 0

Facebook has two major problems, privacy and propaganda, which may lead to government regulation over the private company. Facebook is the biggest provider of news in the US, with a long track record of censorship, and it has the power to turn election results. Google and Facebook control 90% of the digital advertisement market. In addition, Americans’ privacy has been grossly violated because they have not understood the User Agreement.

Technocracy

The US Government Destroyed Our Privacy While No One Was Looking

March 28, 2018 ZeroHedge 3

The CLOUD Act, which was included in last week’s Omnibus bill, eviscerates what may have been left of citizen privacy in America and it makes personal information readily available to other governments. It empowers the US government and foreign governments to invade the privacy of anyone it wants to stalk. [The big question is why did President Trump sign such a bill when he could have vetoed it? The assertion that Hillary would have been worse is not an answer to that question.]

Kakistocracy

Twitter Employees Are Paid to View Private Sex Messages – and Everything Else

January 16, 2018 Veritas Visuals 0

James O’Keefe of Project Veritas publishes more undercover video of Twitter employees. This time, they reveal that users’ privacy is a joke to them. Engineer Pranay Singh says all content, even if deleted by the user, is permanently stored on Twitter servers.This includes a vast amount of sexually explicit text and photos. Tweets and supposedly private, direct messages (DMs) are analyzed through a machine algorithm that creates a highly personal profile about you and sells it to advertisers who track you on the Internet with cookies.

Freedom

Republicans Under Criticism For Pushing A Bill To Allow Internet Providers To Sell Your Browsing History

March 30, 2017 Ryan Grenoble, Huff Post 1

Republicans in the House and the Senate voted nearly unanimously to pass a bill that will allow ISP providers such as Comcast, AT&T, Time Warner, and Verizon to sell your browsing history and other personal data that may include your Social Security number, passwords, and health information. You can protect your privacy by subscribing to a virtual private network (VPN).