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PRIVACY LAW

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld the dismissal of a “bare bones” class action against the asset management company Blackstone Inc. over its acquisition of Ancestry.com in what appears to be a first-of-its-kind federal appellate decision interpreting when claims can be brought under an Illinois genetic privacy law.
A three-judge panel found Monday that individuals who provided their DNA to Ancestry.com failed to state a claim in their complaint alleging that Blackstone violated the Genetic Information Privacy Act when it bought the genealogy company.

Pornhub Blocks All of Utah From Its Site

“Germany’s cybersecurity agency BSI, which is charged with ensuring the security of the country’s 5G network, has now admitted that it uses Huawei internally itself. In Germany, fact trumps fiction when it comes to the total disregard for national security

NY AG wants answers on Madison Square Garden’s use of facial recognition against legal opponents

ECP Nethappenings Newsletter Bank Runs, Bitcoin, Pregnancy, AI, Privacy, Railroads

BANK RUNS

IF #Bitcoin is rat poison …

THEN

Banks are the rats!!!

BITCOIN released in 2009 BECAUSE of Bank Failures in 2008

@EdKrassen
In 2018 President Trump signed a bill that rolled back Dodd-Frank regulations on banks like Silicon Valley Bank. Prior to the bill, the threshold for which banks were required to submit resolution plans for their rapid and orderly resolution to the FDIC was set at $50 billion and higher. This was to ensure failure would not have serious adverse effects on financial stability in the US.

“You can leave your fate in the hands of people debating how to best screw you over. By making it unaffordable to buy things, or to make you lose your job? Or .. opt out, and start saving in #Bitcoin.”

Investors and depositors tried to pull $42 billion from Silicon Valley Bank on Thursday, per Bloomberg. SVB’s CFO, CEO, and CMO fortunately cashed out before the crash.

Silicon Valley Bank Fails After Run on Deposits
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation took control of the bank’s assets on Friday. The failure raised concerns that other banks could face problems, too.

FDIC Creates a Deposit Insurance National Bank of Santa Clara to Protect Insured Depositors of Silicon Valley Bank, Santa Clara, California

Wells Fargo says ‘technical issue’ causing customers to report missing deposits
The bank sought to reassure frustrated customers that their accounts remained secure and said it was working to resolve the issue.

Normally FDIC insurance stops this kind of run from happening.
Because everyone knows the federal government will cover their deposits, they aren’t worried about losing their money in a run, so they’re never in a rush to pull it out. And because they never rush to pull it out, runs can’t even get started. For a normal bank, about 50% of deposits are FDIC insured
But 93% of SVB’s deposits were not FDIC insured. So SVB was vulnerable to a classic, textbook bank run.

“Why this sudden meltdown in bank stocks?
A couple of interesting theories and charts are doing the rounds, so let’s have a look under the hood. A thread. 1/

‘Pathetic’: Feds Rule Candidate ‘Slush Funds’ Are Legal

BITCOIN released in 2009

BECAUSE of Bank Failures in 2008

Financial regulation to protect your money FROM a system designed to steal your money is an oxymoron.

2008: #Bitcoin is born amidst a financial crisis
2023: #Bitcoin will thrive amidst a financial crisis

#Bitcoin  is the safest money out there – Tim Draper, Billionaire Silicon Valley VC

THIS IS THE VALUE PROPOSITION THAT BITCOIN PROVIDES

Softwar: A Novel Theory on Power Projection and the National Strategic Significance of Bitcoin Paperback

AUDIO: My reading of “SoftWar: A Novel Theory on Power Projection and the National Strategic Significance of Bitcoin” by Major Jason Paul Lowery. This video uses the book in accordance with http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 under which the book was published. Minimal commentary. Minimal video edits. Any commentary is my own opinion./Any deviation from the source material is an unintentional error.

Jason Lowery on Twitter:
“NOT BUYING #BITCOIN IS A US NATIONAL STRATEGIC SECURITY HAZARD.”

Fiat-pegged coins like Tether, USDC, and Dai, don’t deserve to be called “stable”-coins. Fiat currencies are not stable. Circle’s eight page single-spaced memo to congress included zero instances of the word “Bitcoin.” Play fiat games, win fiat prizes.

1st they ignore you
2nd they laugh at you
3rd they fight you <WE ARE HERE>
4th We Win!

The Silent March of Bitcoin Policies Across US States
Because it separates state from money, Bitcoin is inherently a political animal.
Bitcoiners may not want to interact with the state, but the state wants to contend with Bitcoin.

AI

People Used Facebook’s Leaked AI to Create a ‘Based’ Chatbot that Says the N-Word
After 4chan published LLaMa online, others have taken the language model and created a functioning chat bot in Discord, which claimed that the n-word can refer to people who don’t have good intentions.

After 4chan published Facebook’s LLaMa online, others have taken the language model and created a functioning chat bot in Discord, which claimed that the n-word can refer to people who don’t have good intentions.

Simple regurgitation of search engine results and mutations of artwork is not AI. ChatGPT cannot pass my test. It is not AI. It’s nowhere close. ChatGPT is a “Machine Learning” model (“ML”). It is not AI and you should stop calling it AI.

My proposed standard for determining legitimate creation of ‘Artificial Intelligence’:
“The Vickery AI Test”

PRIVACY

Mental health provider Cerebral alerts 3.1M people of data breach

@matthew_d_green
The EU’s “chat control” legislation is the most alarming proposal I’ve ever read. Taken in context, it is essentially a design for the most powerful text and image-based mass surveillance system the free world has ever seen.

Section 702 has become something Congress never authorized: a domestic spying tool. Congress should consider ending the program entirely, but shouldn’t reauthorize it without critical reforms, including true accountability and oversight.

PREGNANCY

“Michigan voters enshrined abortion rights in the state constitution during the midterms, a move that was intended to help block the ban from taking effect… ‘This is proof positive that elections matter.’”

Lauren Boebert will became a grandmother at 36 years old the same age her mother did, announcing her 17-year-old son got 15 year old little girl pregnant.

Maybe instead of teaching Kaydon how to hold a gun she should have taught him how to hold a condom.
Boebert was pregnant at 17 (2003) dropped out of high school (to support her family, i.e. self/baby). She didn’t marry her husband until 2007.
Boebert’s 17 year old son got a 15 year old pregnant. That’s Statutory Rape. Where’s the outrage.
Age of consent in Colorado is 17… Boebert’s son, Kaydon Boebert, raped a 15 year old and got her pregnant. Belongs in jail. She was not of age to consent.

When you get pregnant as a teenager and drop out of school like Lauren Boebert did, you are highly unlikely to return. Boebert didn’t.
It’s likely her son’s gf won’t either. This sets up a trajectory of poverty and illiteracy in most instances. It’s not to be celebrated.
Sarah Palin’s daughter was pregnant at 17, and now Lauren Boebert’s son
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/3894140-boebert-praises-high-rural-teen-birth-rates-while-announcing-first-grandchild/

West Virginia Child Marriage is just fine.
West Virginia Republicans Block Child Marriage Ban
According to Unchained At Last, 78 percent of marriages involving a minor are between an underage girl and an adult man.

Neo-Nazi Homeschoolers Could Be Paid $22,000 to Teach Their Kids About Hitler

NATIONALIZE THE RAILROADS

Medical guidance is thin in East Palestine. Scared and sick citizens are calling a health hotline operated not by the EPA, but CTEH, a consulting company regularly accused of downplaying health risks that Norfolk Southern hired to test if the air was safe.

FBI investigates data breach impacting U.S. House members and staff

Social Media Monitoring in the Security Clearance Process

Social Media Monitoring in the Security Clearance Process

By Lindy Kyzer

6:00 AM ET

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2022/12/social-media-monitoring-security-clearance-process/381024/

Social media monitoring used to be the elephant in the room when it came to the continuous vetting of employees working for the federal government. Security Executive Agent Directive 5 was signed in May 2016, paving the way for cyber vetting of cleared professionals. The policy came as the government was looking to advance its efforts to prevent insider threats following the 2013 “year of the insider,” when Aaron Alexis killed 12 people in a mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, and Edward Snowden conducted a massive data breach, revealing thousands of highly classified government documents.

Addressing insider threats became paramount, and the government considered how its security vetting process could help identify red flags before they became security risks. Enter SEAD 5 and cyber vetting: another tool in the government’s insider threat arsenal.

The policy was just that – a policy, not a procedure. In the years since, many security clearance applicants have been left wondering what – if anything – the government is considering in an online search of security clearance applicants. SEAD 5 created a framework for federal agencies to use as they implemented their own social media monitoring programs. And in many agencies the policy still hasn’t extended beyond pilots and possibilities.

“There is one time, one case, where we found it as a part of the adjudicative process where security officials on their own motion issued a denial of a clearance on the basis of social media monitoring,” said Sean Bigley, a security clearance attorney with the law firm Bigley Ranish.

That’s not to say social media couldn’t come up in the course of a background investigation, but in cases thus far, the social media aspect has generally been surfaced by human means versus mass monitoring – social posts get reported, and then disseminated to leadership, for instance.

What Could the Government Consider as a Part of the Cyber Vetting Process?

As those enrolled in the government’s continuous vetting program (which is 100% of all security clearance holders today) know – you shouldn’t expect a postcard from the government notifying you that you’ve been enrolled. With the same possibility around social media monitoring (while the government may not be widely doing it, individual agencies are, and more could in the future), what should security clearance holders be aware of?

First, it’s worth noting that the government’s definition of social media is broad – the cyber vetting possibilities may not be endless, but as the government considers the topic the term “publicly available information” is a better way to consider the websites that may be looked at, including:

* Social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn)
* Microblogging websites (Twitter)
* Blogging and Forums (WordPress, Tumbler)
* Picture and Video Sharing (Flickr and YouTube)
* Music Sharing (Spotify)
* Online Commerce Websites (eBay)
* Dating websites (Match.com)
* Geosocial network websites (TripAdvisor)
* News and media websites where people can comment

Security clearance holders should know that comments made publicly can be used against them in the security clearance process. The best step to take to ensure information doesn’t come back to bite is to keep your accounts locked down and private. The policy is clear that clearance holders will not be asked to share information like passwords. If you keep your accounts appropriately protected, you help keep your personal identity – and clearance eligibility – safe.

“The takeaway that I have from a legal perspective for that is to make yourself private,” advises Bigley. “That’s not to say everyone who makes their account private is trying to hide something, but if you don’t want the government prying on certain aspects of your private life — I think that is understandable for most of us.”

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Resist Fascists

Justice has been hijacked by a handful of elite republican big money corrupt a-holes.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Miles Taylor ~ “In a monumental irony, both Julian Assange… and Edward Snowden… stand charged with the very same crimes that are likely to be brought against Mr. Trump. On both Mr. Assange and Mr. Snowden, Mr. Trump argued that they should be executed.”

FANG

Big Tech’s $95 Million Spending Spree Leaves Antitrust Bill on Brink of Defeat

Top Recipients of Contributions from Lobbyists, 2022 Cycle

FCC has obtained detailed broadband maps from ISPs for the first time ever

4,000 Google cafeteria workers quietly unionized

zuckerberg  JAG Ferguson: Judge rules Facebook parent Meta intentionally violated campaign finance laws

GOOGLE YOUTUBE More Likely to Direct Election-Fraud Videos to Users Already Skeptical about 2020 Election’s Legitimacy

GOOGLE YouTube pushed Trump supporters toward voter fraud videos, study finds

ZUCKERBERG OWNED Ireland fines Instagram a record $400 mln over children’s data

How deranged anti-Obama conspiracy theories led America to Donald Trump Folklorist Patricia Turner on how unhinged right-wing paranoia about the first Black president tore America apart

 What’s Life Like for the Content Moderator? How untenable is our current social media system  “If the torture of its workers is an intrinsic part of the system, then it’s Facebook that has to die (or TikTok or YouTube—kill ’em all).

The T-Mobile / Sprint merger hasn’t created jobs — it’s cut thousands

T-Mobile Misleads Home Internet Customers, Employees Say (Update)

Ahead of iPhone 14 event, Brazil suspends iPhone sales without power brick and fines Apple

TV PRIME TIME NETWORKS

How Roy Cohn Helped Rupert Murdoch

Trump says Fox News pushing ‘Democrat agenda,’ offers to help CNN go ‘Conservative’

Broadcast Networks Pass On Carrying Joe Biden’s Primetime Speech — Update: ABC ran Press Your Luck, CBS went with a Young Sheldon rerun and NBC with a Law & Order replay. CNN and MSNBC carried the address, as did news division streaming channels, but Fox News stuck with Tucker Carlson and his critique of the speech as it was happening.

“And this is why the media is such a failed state. The president is supposed to be political. It’s the job.”

“Democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election — either they win, or they were cheated,” Biden said.
“Either they win, or they were cheated, and that’s where the MAGA Republicans are today.”

“Why Ken Burns Is Exposing America’s Evils During the Holocaust”

PRIVACY

2nd largest U.S. school district hit by ransomware attack

Cops wanted to keep mass surveillance app secret; privacy advocates refused “Tracked,” that investigates the power and consequences of decisions driven by algorithms on people’s everyday lives. Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’ “U.S. police departments have used the “Fog Reveal” database to follow people’s movements based on hundreds of billions of records from 250 million devices. The data originates from common apps such as Starbucks and Waze, @AP’s reporting shows. Federal, state and local police agencies around the U.S. continue to use Fog with very little public accountability EFF RELEASE FOG MANUAL
“U.S. police departments have used the “Fog Reveal” database to follow people’s movements based on hundreds of billions of records from 250 million devices. The data originates from common apps such as Starbucks and Waze, @AP’s reporting shows.

Encrypted app Signal just hired one of Big Tech’s sharpest critics. Meredith Whittaker, the former Google manager, is Signal’s first president. She is out to convince users to pay for the free app.
Signal hypothetical use case becomes practical since cellular providers have started censoring private text messages.
Re Signal:
If only Signal wasn’t actually recording all our contacts permanently in their servers (under their mandatory PIN requirement), then Signal might be a useful tool for encrypted messaging. But somebody apparently got to them to undermine their users’ privacy.
Normally this would not be a problem with free software — users could just rip out the offending code. But Signal’s interpretation is that the license doesn’t allow you to rip out the spyware part of the code, while still using their back-end servers to let your improved version talk to any other Signal users.

The Pentagon’s Push to Program Soldiers’ Brains
The military wants future super-soldiers to control robots with their thoughts.

HEALTH

Pandemic Roundup

Blood abnormalities found in people with Long Covid

How long the coronavirus survives in air depends on relative humidity, infectivity can drop by 90% in 20 minutes depending on environmental conditions.

Interacting brains sync without physical presence

Blue Zones Lessons From the World’s Longest Lived

Bill would eliminate federal taxes on Social Security benefits: ‘You Earned It, You Keep It’

New Mexico governor commits $10 million to building new abortion clinic near Texas border

Study raises red flags about corporatization of health care, OHSU investigator says

Study raises red flags about corporatization of health care, OHSU investigator says

Researchers discover new way fat cells talk directly with the brain

Dundee researchers hail Parkinson’s breakthrough

Court Says Tipped Wage Initiative Can Be On November Ballot

MUSIC

Kids Yell “Poop” At Alexa, And These Musicians Profit “Alexa, play ‘Poopy Stupid Butt’ again.”

CRYPTO

IMF Says Crypto Has Greater Potential as a Payment Method Over Weak Currencies

Crypto Dev Enters Wrong Command, Destroys Entire Company

Metaverse Scammers Have a Bridge to Sell You. The Alabama Securities Commission Is Fighting Back

CFTC and SEC open comments for proposal to amend crypto reporting rules for large hedge funds

Who is BitBoy Crypto and why does everybody hate him?

CORRUPT AS HELL

“Unacceptable”: Trump-appointed inspector general stonewalls Jan. 6 probe and blocks witnesses
DHS watchdog Joseph Cuffari has a “fundamental misunderstanding” of his duties as IG, lawmakers say

Atlanta federal pen nearly vacant amid corruption investigation

Leonard Leo: the secretive rightwinger using billions to reshape America

Oath Keepers lawyer Kellye SoRelle charged in Jan. 6 conspiracy case

Georgia election server wiped after suit filed
A computer server crucial to a lawsuit against Georgia election officials was quietly wiped clean by its custodians just after the suit was filed, T

“Masked White Supremacists Crash New Jersey Labor Day Parade”

New FBI documents link Saudi spy in California to 9/11 attacks

More Than 1 In 2 Americans Will Have An Election Denier On The Ballot This Fall

Opinion Leaked audio of a billionaire GOP donor hands Democrats a weapon

“Dark Money Group in Alleged Bannon Scam Dinged by IRS”

Opinion It’s time for Democrats to act on a dark money ban in primaries

Trump Went Judge Shopping and It Paid Off in Mar-a-Lago Case

Why Trump’s FBI investigation could now be delayed for months or even years

Senate Filibuster Stopped Most Pro-Democracy Bills From Becoming Law

Dr. Oz Campaign Hires Actors To Play Convicted Felons Supporting Fetterman

Trump judge’s ruling in Mar-a-Lago case proves Biden was right: MAGA is fascism

Bill Barr: Judge’s Ruling Was ‘Wrong’ in Mar-a-Lago Investigation

Police investigating how Michigan voting machine wound up for sale online
Authorities in Michigan are investigating how a missing voting machine from the state wound up for sale on eBay last month for $1,200.

‘Corrupt as Hell’: Demands for Clarence Thomas to Resign Follow New Details of Wife’s Election Scheming

Jan. 6 panel alleges Gingrich involvement with Trump efforts, seeks interview

Oxford Physicist Unloads on Quantum Computing Industry, Says It’s Basically a Scam

In NCLA Win Against IRS, First Circuit Rules Taxpayers Can Indeed Take the Agency to Court – New Civil Liberties Alliance

McCarthy’s “Commitment to America” rollout

RELIGION

Politico’s New Owner Invited Colleagues to ‘Pray’ for Trump’s Re-Election

Pope dissolves Knights of Malta leadership, issues new constitution
Pope Francis dissolved the leadership of the Knights of Malta, the global Catholic religious order, and installed a provisional government ahead of the election of a new Grand Master.

Kansas constitutional amendment on abortion is a bailout for the Catholic Church

Neo-Nazi head of Goyim Defense League arrested in Poland
Jon Minadeo was arrested while he was protesting against Jews outside of Auschwitz concentration camp.