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K12 School Shootings Have Stopped

Last month was the first March without a school shooting in the United States since 2002.

Congrats everyone! We defeated school shootings and all it took was closing every school in America.

For this years graduating seniors, this is the first March in their lifetimes without a shooting.

2020 YTD:
Lowest number of DUIs
Least pollution
Most of humanity coming together

April 2020 News from COVID-19 TRUSTED EXERTS

2020 COVID-19 TRUSTED EXERTS

  • 4/12/2020 The coronavirus can travel at least 13 feet, new study shows
  • There could be more than a million cases in the world right now, there could be anywhere from 10 million to perhaps 100 million. That also means the extreme preventive measures like stay-at-home orders could last months, not weeks, Jeremy Konyndyk, a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development, tells the health news site Stat.
  • More than 21,000 dead as UN warns of threat to ‘whole of humanity’
  • More than one outlet is reporting COVID-19 does indeed impact the central nervous system resulting in the loss of smell, taste, slurred speech, and in extreme conditions convulsions. PDF DOI: 10.111/cns.13372
  • Old Drug, New Treatment? An anticoagulant naturally produced by the body, tPA was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1996 for use in patients experiencing heart attack, stroke and pulmonary embolism.
  • US for-profit healthcare sector cuts thousands of jobs as pandemic rages
  • Should passengers return to cruise ships after the pandemic? No
  • Evidence that coronavirus originated at Chinese lab is ‘inconclusive,’ top general says
  • Wuhan doctors plan long-term look at coronavirus impact on male sex hormone
    Effect of SARS-CoV-2 infection upon male gonadal function: A single center-based study which was not peer-reviewed) PDF
    3/15 The novel #coronavirus may cause testicular damage and male infertility, Chinese experts found, recommending infected men take tests for semen quality and hormone levels.
  • Amazon fires two employees who condemned treatment of warehouse workers- Amazon workers should strike!
  • Amazon reportedly planning drastic cuts to affiliate commission rates starting next week . The rates will drop the money website owners make through affiliate links.
  • Trump mentioned virus in 20 of almost 900 February tweets
  • NIST and OSTP Launch Effort to Improve Search Engines for COVID-19 Research
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7 Signal App Tips for Secure Chats

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SIGNAL APP

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Available on iOS and Android,  send messages and make calls when both parties are connected to the Internet.

Signal, a secure app from Open Whisper Systems, is endorsed by Edward Snowden.

Whisper Systems co-founder Moxie Marlinspike  built Open Whisper Systems using software from his former company.

It’s a blend of the encrypted RedPhone VoIP app and TextSecure SMS app, both from Whisper Systems, which was bought and dismantled by Twitter in 2011.@Jack

Call using Signal – but  your friend also has to be using Signal.

Verify that the call is secure. This is done by each party being sent the same pair of words that they can verify with the other party by reading them aloud once they’re on the call. To place a call, tap the name of the person you want to call and then tap the phone icon. The phone will ring and the words will appear at the bottom of the screen.

support #encryption #privacy

Facebook must face renewed privacy lawsuit over user tracking

Facebook must face renewed privacy lawsuit over user tracking

A federal appeals court on Thursday revived nationwide litigation accusing Facebook Inc of violating users privacy rights by tracking their internet activity even after they logged out of the social media website.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said Facebook users could pursue several claims under federal and California privacy and wiretapping laws. A spokeswoman for Facebook said the proposed class action was without merit, and the Menlo Park, California-based company will continue defending itself. Facebook users had accused the company of quietly storing cookies on their browsers that tracked when they visited outside websites containing “like” buttons, and then selling personal profiles based on their browsing histories to advertisers.

U.S. District Judge Edward Davila in San Jose, California had dismissed the lawsuit in 2017, including claims under the federal Wiretap Act, and said the users lacked legal standing to pursue economic damages claims.

But in Thursday’s decision ……

Chief Judge Sidney Thomas

wrote for a three-judge panel that

users had a reasonable expectation of privacy, and had sufficiently alleged a “clear invasion” of their right to privacy.

The panel also said

California law recognized a right to recoup unjustly earned profits, regardless of whether a defendant’s conduct directly caused economic harm.

Facebook’s user profiles would allegedly reveal an individual’s likes, dislikes, interests, and habits over a significant amount of time, without affording users meaningful opportunity to control or prevent the unauthorized exploration of their private lives, Thomas wrote.

Citing Facebook’s data use policy, he also said the plaintiffs’ plausibly alleged that Facebook set an expectation that logged-out user data would not be collected, but then collected it anyway.