It still blows my mind that American news media does stuff like this. We've got different channels and other news media in Norway, but this is so far outside of what would be acceptable (and possibly legal) that it's hard to truly understand that the most powerful country in the world does this shit. Maybe we shouldn't be surprised that American politics (and other parts of society) are so supremely fecked up.
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The fecking nerve of this guy. Absolute fecking clown.If we had proper libel laws in this country it would cut the conservative media right at the ankle.
True that, Fox News isn't a legitimate news station, but are allowed to pretend they are one.
Even their own lawyers argues in court that nobody takes Fox seriously anyway, and wins based on that, so surely the company shouldn't be allowed to keep "News" in their title, cause evidently they are not news.
Now, this wouldn't change much, they would still do what they do, but they should have that title removed anyway.
https://www.wired.com/story/odni-commercially-available-information-report/
THE UNITED STATES government has been secretly amassing a “large amount” of “sensitive and intimate information” on its own citizens, a group of senior advisers informed Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, more than a year ago.
information being commercially sold about Americans today is “more revealing, available on more people (in bulk), less possible to avoid, and less well understood” than that which is traditionally thought of as being “publicly available.”
Perhaps most controversially, the report states that the government believes it can “persistently” track the phones of “millions of Americans” without a warrant, so long as it pays for the information. Were the government to simply demand access to a device's location instead, it would be considered a Fourth Amendment “search” and would require a judge's sign-off. But because companies are willing to sell the information—not only to the US government but to other companies as well—the government considers it “publicly available” and therefore asserts that it “can purchase it.”
It is no secret, the report adds, that it is often trivial “to deanonymize and identify individuals” from data that was packaged as ethically fine for commercial use because it had been “anonymized” first. Such data may be useful, it says, to “identify every person who attended a protest or rally based on their smartphone location or ad-tracking records.”
Biden should check this haines for putin ties...undermining faith in government in a dangerous time, spreading fake news and the type of half-truths that the kremlin specialises in
THE UNITED STATES government has been secretly amassing a “large amount” of “sensitive and intimate information” on its own citizens, a group of senior advisers informed Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, more than a year ago.
information being commercially sold about Americans today is “more revealing, available on more people (in bulk), less possible to avoid, and less well understood” than that which is traditionally thought of as being “publicly available.”
Perhaps most controversially, the report states that the government believes it can “persistently” track the phones of “millions of Americans” without a warrant, so long as it pays for the information. Were the government to simply demand access to a device's location instead, it would be considered a Fourth Amendment “search” and would require a judge's sign-off. But because companies are willing to sell the information—not only to the US government but to other companies as well—the government considers it “publicly available” and therefore asserts that it “can purchase it.”
It is no secret, the report adds, that it is often trivial “to deanonymize and identify individuals” from data that was packaged as ethically fine for commercial use because it had been “anonymized” first. Such data may be useful, it says, to “identify every person who attended a protest or rally based on their smartphone location or ad-tracking records.”
Biden should check this haines for putin ties...undermining faith in government in a dangerous time, spreading fake news and the type of half-truths that the kremlin specialises in
If Trump gets back into the White House, we would probably see him nominate people like MTG to the court, cause AFAIK, you don't need any actual qualifications to become a judge on the supreme court.
Goldman is an absolute gem…
Oh noes!
Why not? Always is on his game every time I see him.
Goldman is a bit of a cheat code
It's also rumored that he was having an affair with the Dem rep who flipped to the GOP recently.
Interesting. Any chance of him getting ousted from the speaker position?
Not a chance. The family values party doesn't quite value family all that much unless it's a campaign issue.
This mensa's still at it...
Not serious people...
Good thing the poor seat wasn't lonely. Thread...
He's probably closer to VP material for the next cyber in 2028.
Beyond parody…
Jfc. Irony just died a spectacular death…
He’s the same height as Mussolini…