Internet of Things at Home: Ring sends the surveillance data of its own customers to third parties, including Facebook.

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By Bill Budington, Electronic Frontier Foundation: Ring isn’t just a product that allows users to surveil their neighbors. The company also uses it to surveil its customers. An investigation by EFF of the Ring doorbell app for Android found it to be packed with third-party trackers sending out a plethora of customers’ personally identifiable information (PII). Four … Read more

50 Common Cognitive Biases (to be aware of if you want people to believe an argument)

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by SpaceyTheMinotaur This is going to be a somewhat controversial post, I understand, but some biases are extra-relevant to this sub: reactance, backfire effect, belief bias, confirmation bias, false memory, curse of knowledge, false consensus, and third-person effect. Things working AGAINST people who are telling the truth in this sub: sunk cost fallacy, authority bias, … Read more

Virginia Congress Continues Gun Control Frenzy With 9 More Bills, Ignores Massive Protest

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This article was written by Daisy Luther and originally published at The Organic Prepper Despite a massive and peaceful turnout on the Lobby Day rally on January 20th, the Virginia State Congress remained totally unfazed by what the people wanted and proceeded to advance numerous unconstitutional gun laws over the following week. While everyone has been focused on … Read more

AMAZON’s Ring Doorbell Secretly Shares Private User Data With FACEBOOK

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Amazon’s Ring smart doorbell surveillance product has been caught sending user data to Facebook and other companies without making Ring users aware their data was being shared. That’s according to an investigation from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). What’s even more alarming is Ring users are having their data sent to Facebook even if they themselves don’t … Read more

Police Allowed To Conduct Illegal Searches Of Vehicles At Concerts And Music Festivals

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by mapi credit: Hudson Valley 360 A recent Appeals Court ruling in Tennessee reveals a disturbing window into how police use concerts, music festivals and sporting events to trample our Fourth Amendment rights. When Brian Wiley purchased tickets to the Bonnaaroo Music Festival in 2016 he never thought that police would be allowed to search his car without probable cause. … Read more

XI’S DISEASE UPDATE

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Wuhan virus: Know the symptoms of this disease. Related: Germany and Japan Report First Coronavirus Cases in People Who Haven’t Visited China. UPDATE: ‘It was like a horror movie’: In one Wuhan hospital, long lines, fear and frustration over coronavirus.“One spoke of a fear that sick patients with fevers will infect each other while waiting in long … Read more

HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN

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Gallup: U.S. Satisfaction Surpasses 40% for First Time Since 2005. Astounding numbers as US heads into 2020 election season.. Nation strongly more satisfied re: Economy, Security, Social Issues, Race Relations etc under President Trump/Pence than under President Obama/Biden. Gallup: U.S. Satisfaction Surpasses 40% for First Time Since 2005.Astounding numbers as US heads into 2020 election … Read more

If your party says it doesn’t want you, believe it.

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OTHERING: Buttigieg: No Room for Compromise With Pro-Life Democratic Voters. Former South Bend mayor and presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg told a “proud pro-life Democrat” he did not think there was room for any compromise on the issue of abortion. “The Democratic platform contains language that basically says that we don’t belong,” Democratic activist Kristen Day asked Buttigieg during … Read more

Boss Bezos: AMZN ONE-DAY DISRUPTION

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by WSBConsensus AMZN’s reacceleration since the launch of Prime Free One Day delivery and its record Holiday season could portend a new wave of retail disruption. Threat posed by AMZN Prime Free One Day delivery needs more attention The damage to retailers in Q4 could be an unpleasant surprise. “AMZN recently stated it had a “record Holiday season,” where the number … Read more

THE DESOLATION OF THE TRUMP-HATERS

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The arrogance, the dismissiveness, the smug cackling, the accents. If Donald Trump wins re-election this year, I’ll remember this brief CNN segment late one Saturday night in January as the perfect encapsulation for why it happened. pic.twitter.com/8kQ6zN9AZV — Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) January 28, 2020 Is this smugness? It feels to me more like desolation and … Read more