How Pizza Night Can Cost More in Data Than Dollars

How Pizza Night Can Cost More in Data Than Dollars: 
"...Even a low-key evening at home can mean handing over a trove of personal information to high-tech companies
...The smartphones, Facebook accounts and other technology products deeply embedded in modern life help people get more things done every day. 
They also gather more information about us than we often realize.
But Facebook's crisis over how it handles and protects user data has led some to ask: What data am I giving up?
Imagine “Sally” sets up a pizza-and-movie night with her friend “Kristen.” 
The Wall Street Journal reviewed privacy statements to assess just how much data could be unknowingly shared on top of the price of that pepperoni pie."...

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The Order

As Kristen cleans up her apartment, she turns to her Amazon Echo: “Alexa, open Domino's and place an order.”

The Domino's app installed on the Echo pulls up Kristen’s stored credit-card information. "Do you want to use your Visa ending in 1234?” Alexa asks.

The stored credit-card information is used to complete the pizza purchase. Alexa also logs the interaction, and Domino’s creates a transcript of what she said.

DATA PROVIDED

ALEXA

Voice characteristics

Content of request

DOMINO'S

Payment and billing information

Type of pizza ordered

Quantity of order

ADDITIONAL DATA COLLECTED

ALEXA

 Interaction history

 Type of Echo device

 Location

 Last four digits of credit card

DOMINO'S

 Transcript of what she said

 Hardware settings

 Operating system

 Performance statistics

Alan Dershowitz: Today is a 'very dangerous day for lawyer-client relations'

Alan Dershowitz: Today is a 'very dangerous day for lawyer-client relations':

""I tell [clients] on my word of honor that what you tell me is sacrosanct," he said. "And now they say, just based on probable cause ... they can burst into the office, grab all the computers, and then give it to another FBI agent and say, 'You're the firewall. We want you now to read all these confidential communications, tell us which ones we can get and which ones we can't get.'"
"If this were Hillary Clinton being investigated and they went into her lawyer's office, the ACLU would be on every television station in America, jumping up and down," he added.
"The deafening silence from the ACLU and civil libertarians about the intrusion into the lawyer-client confidentiality is really appalling," Dershowitz said."

Lunch video-----Stossel: The Great American Tax Ripoff

Noon-toon

Facebook Punishes Conservative News Site for Criticizing Mass Migration

Facebook Punishes Conservative News Site for Criticizing Mass Migration:

"Facebook has repeatedly punished a fast-growing news website for its conservative views on immigration and other topics–suspending its moderators, censoring content, and threatening to close the site down.
Voiceofeurope.com, which takes pride in its “uncensored news,” has been effectively bludgeoned into submission by Facebook and recently announced it will self-censor on the social media site to avoid losing its page."

Vaccines: Decades Of Misinformation Have Succeeded | Science 2.0

Vaccines: Decades Of Misinformation Have Succeeded | Science 2.0:
"Though less than a dozen school children will be slain by a gun in any given year, American society is mobilized with marches and media against firearms. 
Meanwhile, on average 55,000 Americans will die from the flu, which has a vaccine. 
In states like California, anti-vaccine sentiment ran so high on the coast that the state had to pass a law forcing parents to comply or not have their kids enrolled. 
Some schools in Marin county had fewer than 30 percent of children vaccinated. 
Philosophical exemptions just by families in the wealthiest parts of California exceeded the number of religious exemptions nationwide - by 1000 percent.
...They found that the vaccine hesitancy phenomenon started before the 1990s, and it was due to scandals, like the European thalidomide disaster of 1962, along with the emergence of new styles of parenting, second-wave feminism, and the popularization of alternative medicine. 
...In the United States, we even give supplements, naturopathy and other "alternatives" to real medicine quasi-legitimacy by giving them federal funding under the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, which claims to study but really shields what used to be called folk medicine, and then alternative medicine, and then complementary medicine and is now relabeled again as integrative medicine.
Watch anti-vaxxers lose their sh*t over a law that encourages critical vaccines
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/983367180594155520
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#1 This day 1962-----Shelley Fabares - Johnny Angel (1962) HQ

The Sun will get unusually cold by 2050 and might trigger a mini ice age - IBTimes India

The Sun will get unusually cold by 2050 and might trigger a mini ice age - IBTimes India
"A study by the University of California San Diego has said the Sun will experience a cold period where all solar activities will be reduced drastically.
Scientists warn of unusually cold Sun: Will we face another ice age?
...A study by the University of California San Diego has claimed that by 2050, the Sun is expected to become cool.
You might think "what's the big deal," but remember that this means the solar activities that create the heat of the Sun to sustain life on Earth may diminish.
And the last time it happened was in the 17th century when the Thames River froze. 
Scientists call this the "Maunder Minimum".
...Researchers at the Northumbria University have claimed that a mini ice age will start by 2021 and is expected to reduce the effect of global warming, but not stop it."
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Constitution Challenged As Federal Court Bans AR-15 - Conservative Daily Post

Constitution Challenged As Federal Court Bans AR-15 - Conservative Daily Post:

"Second amendment supporters know all too well the danger in banning any types of guns. While the left is quick to question why the average civilians may have a need for any particular model of firearm, this type of overreach instigates a slippery slope which soon infringes on the constitutional right to bear arms.
Devastatingly, this is already occurring in Massachusetts where a federal court made a traitorous ruling that rifles such as the AR-15 are not protected under the second amendment as they are similar to guns used for military service."

The U.S. States People Are Fleeing (And The Ones They Are Moving To) – Forbes

The U.S. States People Are Fleeing (And The Ones They Are Moving To) – Forbes: 
"Each year families pack up their belongings and move to a new home, sometimes out of state. Tracking where they go—and where they’re leaving from—paints an interesting picture of U.S. migration.
...For a look at the top ten states people are leaving, check out our slideshow..."
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1. Illinois--Total Moves: 8,157--Percentage Moving Out: 63.4%

History for April 11

History for April 11 - On-This-Day.com:
Dean G. Acheson 1893, Dale Messick 1906 - Cartoonist ("Brenda Starr"), Oleg Cassini 1913 - Fashion designer


Joel Grey 1932 - Singer (Katz), dancer, actor ("Cabaret"), actress Jennifer Grey's father, Louise Lasser 1939 - Actress ("Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman", "Slither"), Peter Riegert 1947 - Actor ("The Mask")


1945 - During World War II, American soldiers liberated the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald in Germany.


1947 - Jackie Robinson became the first black player in major-league history. He played in an exhibition game for the Brooklyn Dodgers.


1951 - U.S. President Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur as head of United Nations forces in Korea.


1961 - Israel began the trial of Adolf Eichman, accused of World War II war crimes.


1968 - U.S. President Johnson signed the 1968 Civil Rights Act.


1970 - Apollo 13 blasted off on a mission to the moon that was disrupted when an explosion crippled the spacecraft. The astronauts did return safely.


1984 - China invaded Vietnam.


2001 - China agreed to release 24 crewmembers of a U.S. surveillance plane. The EP-3E Navy crew had been held since April 1 on Hainon, where the plane had made an emergency landing after an in-flight collision with a Chinese fighter jet. The Chinese pilot was missing and presumed dead.

Mark Zuckerberg Declines to Share Facebook's Definition of 'Hate Speech' with Senate | Breitbart

Mark Zuckerberg Declines to Share Facebook's Definition of 'Hate Speech' with Senate | Breitbart:

"While testifying before the Senate, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg dodged providing a definition of what constituted “hate speech” on the Facebook platform."

William McKinley statue removal in Arcata, California expands liberal push to erase history - Washington Times

William McKinley statue removal in Arcata, California expands liberal push to erase history - Washington Times:

"A California town’s effort to remove a statue of former President William McKinley shows that the leftist bent for erasing politically incorrect figures from the public square no longer is reserved for slave owners, Confederate generals and segregationists.
On the heels of the Confederate monument purge across the South, the town council of Arcata, California, voted to take down a statue of the 25th president, despite McKinley’s sterling record on civil rights.
Among other things, McKinley fought to abolish slavery in the Civil War, resisted demands to fire Catholic state workers as governor of Ohio and appointed a record number of blacks to federal positions as president."

The way we were-----The Cascades Rhythm of the Falling Rain

Boob-tube-----The History of the Television documentary

A Broken FBI Promise - WSJ

A Broken FBI Promise - WSJ:
"...But already both the FBI and the Justice Department are back to their old tricks.
At issue is a memo related to the opening of a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign’s alleged ties with Russia in 2016.
Such information is crucial for Congress to get an accurate picture of how Justice and the FBI handled this investigation.
House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R., Calif.) has written to both Director Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein asking for an unredacted version for all committee members to see. The bureau says it will not provide the material because it is too sensitive.
Mr. Nunes notes this is ridiculous, given that the document “is not highly classified.”
More to the point, if an Intelligence Committee made up of elected representatives of the American people is not qualified to see such material, no one is..."
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Don't Give Away Historic Details About Yourself - Slashdot

Don't Give Away Historic Details About Yourself - Slashdot
"Brian Krebs:
Social media sites are littered with seemingly innocuous little quizzes, games and surveys urging people to reminisce about specific topics, such as "What was your first job," or "What was your first car?" The problem with participating in these informal surveys is that in doing so you may be inadvertently giving away the answers to "secret questions" that can be used to unlock access to a host of your online identities and accounts. ...But I thought it was worth mentioning because certain social networks -- particularly Facebook -- seem positively overrun with these data-harvesting schemes. ...Nevertheless, your answers to these questions may live in perpetuity online, giving identity thieves and scammers ample ammunition to start gaining backdoor access to your various online accounts."Read all!

Nancy Pelosi Vows To Rework GOP Tax Plan | The Daily Caller

Nancy Pelosi Vows To Rework GOP Tax Plan | The Daily Caller:

"House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi vowed Wednesday that Democrats will rework the GOP tax bill if they successfully retake the House in the 2018 midterm elections.
Speaking at a Culver City town hall event as part of the “Repeal the Trump Tax” tour, Pelosi pledged that Democrats would overhaul the tax bill into one that “creates growth, creates good-paying jobs, as it reduces the deficit.”"

Unmanned Technology: Breaching the Battlefield with the Brits

Unmanned Technology: Breaching the Battlefield with the Brits
"U.S. soldiers, Marines, Department of Defense civilians, and troops from the United Kingdom observed and tested a series of unmanned, remote-controlled ground vehicles during a combined training event at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, April 2, 2018.

The training event was conducted in preparation for a larger demonstration of unmanned capabilities, called the Robotic Complex Breach Concept.

“Being able to take soldiers out of harm’s way and accomplish the mission is very an attractive option to any commander,” said U.S. Army Lt. Col. Jesse Curry, commander of the 82nd Brigade Engineer Battalion, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division. 

“It’s a capability that the enemy will not know how to counteract when we implement it. This type of technology enables us to stretch further while conserving resources...”

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The Trans Destruction of Sport - CultureWatch

The Trans Destruction of Sport - CultureWatch:
"Oh look, a guy pretending to be a girl almost whooped all the female competition at the Commonwealth Games at the Gold Coast. 
But thankfully an injury has forced him to withdraw. 
The only thing worse than this outrage are all the brainless twits in the media calling this guy a ‘she’ and referring to him as a ‘her’.

The New Zealand athlete, Gavin Hubbard, who now pretends he is a she, and calls himself Laurel Hubbard, was to have competed today in a weightlifting event. 
But an elbow injury has meant he was forced to withdraw from competing. 
And that is a good thing too.
The bulky guy would have easily beaten all the real women in the competition, illustrating what an utter farce the trans con game is, and what numbats our sporting officials are. 
That they even allowed him to compete as a woman in the first place shows what PC goofballs they are.

As to the recent injury, one write-up explains the state of play (pardon the moonbat references to him as a her)..."
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