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101now · 7 months

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RFK Jr. teases announcement amid speculation he will make independent or third-party run

CNN — Environmental lawyer and 2024 presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday teased a “major announcement” in upcoming weeks amid speculation he is considering dropping his bid to primary President Joe Biden as a Democrat and instead running for president as an independent or on a third-party ticket. “I want to tell you now what I’ve come to understand after six months of…

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neyatimes · 9 months

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Guatemala will vote for new president but critics say many anti-corruption candidates were weeded out

CNN — Guatemalans head to the polls on June 25 to pick a new president, as regional watchers warn of a downward spiral of kleptocracy and weakening rule of law in Central America’s most populous nation. Social democrat Sandra Torres, the right-wing Zury Ríos and center-right Edmont Mulet lead the pack of more than 20 presidential hopefuls in the general elections. Other candidates have been…

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worldspotlightnews · 1 year

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Erdogan's political fate may be determined by Turkey's Kurds | CNN

Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Sign up here. Abu Dhabi, UAE CNN — Turkey’s persecuted pro-Kurdish party has emerged as a kingmaker in the country’s upcoming election, playing a decisive role that may just tip the balance enough to unseat two-decade ruler…

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reportwire · 1 year

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Pence says 'history will hold Donald Trump accountable' for January 6 | CNN Politics

CNN — Former Vice President Mike Pence made his most blistering comments yet about former President Donald Trump’s role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol during remarks Saturday evening at the annual Gridiron Club Dinner in Washington, DC. Pence began his remarks at the dinner, which traditionally features politicians making jokes about notable Washington figures, with lighthearted…

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world-news24 · 1 year

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Vietnam names new president as corruption crackdown shakes up top leadership | CNN

Hanoi, Vietnam CNN — Vietnam’s National Assembly on Thursday named Vo Van Thuong as the country’s new president, in a reshuffle of the country’s top leadership amid a sweeping anti-graft campaign. In an extraordinary session, lawmakers elected Thuong, 52, after the ruling Communist Party nominated him on Wednesday as president, a largely ceremonial role but one of the top four political…

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era-news · 3 months

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Rand Paul Fast Facts | CNN Politics

CNN — Here’s a look at the life of Rand Paul, US senator from Kentucky. Birth date: January 7, 1963 Birth place: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Birth name: Randal Howard Paul Father: Ron Paul, former presidential candidate and retired US representative from Texas Mother: Carol (Wells) Paul Marriage: Kelley (Ashby) Paul Children: Robert, Duncan and William Education: Attended Baylor…

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masr356 · 1 year

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House Oversight chairman seeks Biden family financial transaction data | MASR356

Rep. James Comer, in one of his first strikes as Home Oversight Chairman, is looking for info from the Treasury Division concerning the Biden household’s monetary transactions and calling on a handful of former Twitter executives to testify at a public listening to. The brand new spherical of letters from the committee comes as Home Republicans wish to flex their investigative would possibly and…

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waveridden · 10 months

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i've long held a fascination with blaseball gamma 1 (the test circuit that was revealed on the website after it had finished running) because there's a whole lot about it that doesn't add up. if you compare the rosters in the last available gamelogs for teams to the rosters on the websites they don't match up - and i don't just mean "oh the static charges" i mean there are new players and reverbs that have happened that aren't recorded. it is a weird, messy circuit that we didn't get to see, and i care for it quite dearly.

(personally i've long held the theory that there was a third season of this circuit that we didn't get to see that led to additional weather and another round of charges. this is beside the point but i think if they ever do another IAB y'all should help me flood the question box asking about this. i want to know.)

one thing you Can see when looking at gamma 1 teams is that several of them have four pitchers. this is, obviously, not how blaseball works; teams should have five pitchers. some of them were charged, and we know some of these from feed messages. some of them are just missing.

i found some of them tonight.

i've been working on recreating the election results from gamma 1, season 1, and through that i've found three pitchers that i'm not sure people know about. i don't have their stats info, i don't have their performance records. but i found three players who were missing. those players are:

pedro greatlakes, miami dale

jamaal hardison, baltimore crabs

manuela byron, new york millennials

there are, per my best count, three teams with pitchers that are still missing from the record (firefighters, sunbeams, lift) and because of the quality of pitcher feed events i'm not sure they'll ever be found. and maybe this is actually old news and i'm out of touch. and maybe (definitely) i'm a bit of a sap. but i wanted to publish those names. because blaseball is over and gone, and this was a dead circuit in a dead world in a dead game. but there are still new things to find.

#waveridden.txt #i need a blaseball tag #honorable mention to sloth palladium of the lovers who i Think was recorded elsewhere idt i found them but they also only exist in the form #of one election feed message.#also for anyone who is curious how i did this:#my personal project a while back was reconstructing the gamma 1 season 1 elections from a combination of feedeck and the datablase. this wa #one of those elections where teams could pick one stat and every relevant player got a boost in that stat but due to a bug (?) if teams #picked baserunning/defense then the Entire Roster got that boost. which means that feed messages exist for every player on that roster #which includes the missing pitchers!#ETA the exception to the above is pedro greatlakes who i found bc they won a blood type blessing but afaik nobody else knew that lol #also per sibrcord a couple people might've known some of these but afaik they weren't. like. Known #whatever. let me have this

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shirlleycoyle · 3 years

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Inside the Industry That Unmasks People At Scale

Tech companies have repeatedly reassured the public that trackers used to follow smartphone users through apps are anonymous or at least pseudonymous, not directly identifying the person using the phone. But what they don't mention is that an entire overlooked industry exists to purposefully and explicitly shatter that anonymity.

They do this by linking mobile advertising IDs (MAIDs) collected by apps to a person's full name, physical address, and other personal identifiable information (PII). Motherboard confirmed this by posing as a potential customer to a company that offers linking MAIDs to PII.

"If shady data brokers are selling this information, it makes a mockery of advertisers’ claims that the truckloads of data about Americans that they collect and sell is anonymous," Senator Ron Wyden told Motherboard in a statement.

Do you work at a company selling this kind of data? Do you otherwise have access to the data itself or documents related to it? We'd love to hear from you. Using a non-work phone or computer, you can contact Joseph Cox securely on Signal on +44 20 8133 5190, Wickr on josephcox, OTR chat on [email protected], or email [email protected].

"We have one of the largest repositories of current, fresh MAIDS<>PII in the USA," Brad Mack, CEO of data broker BIGDBM told us when we asked about the capabilities of the product while posing as a customer. "All BIGDBM USA data assets are connected to each other," Mack added, explaining that MAIDs are linked to full name, physical address, and their phone, email address, and IP address if available. The dataset also includes other information, "too numerous to list here," Mack wrote.

A MAID is a unique identifier a phone's operating system gives to its users' individual device. For Apple, that is the IDFA, which Apple has recently moved to largely phase out. For Google, that is the AAID, or Android Advertising ID. Apps often grab a user's MAID and provide that to a host of third parties. In one leaked dataset from a location tracking firm called Predicio previously obtained by Motherboard, the data included users of a Muslim prayer app's precise locations. That data was somewhat pseudonymized, because it didn't contain the specific users' name, but it did contain their MAID. Because of firms like BIGDBM, another company that buys the sort of data Predicio had could take that or similar data and attempt to unmask the people in the dataset simply by paying a fee.

A screenshot of FullContact's website offering the linking of mobile ad ids and other information.

"Anyone and everyone who has a phone and has installed an app that has ads, currently is at risk of being de-anonymized via unscrupulous companies," Zach Edwards, a researcher who has closely followed the supply chain of various sources of data, told Motherboard in an online chat. "There are significant risks for members of law enforcement, elected officials, members of the military and other high-risk individuals from foreign surveillance when data brokers are able to ingest data from the advertising bidstream," he added, referring to the process where some third parties obtain data on smartphone users via the placement of adverts.

This de-anonymization industry uses various terms to describe their product, including "identity resolution" and "identity graph." Other companies claiming to offer a similar service as BIGDBM include FullContact, which says it has 223 billion data points for the U.S., as well as profiles on over 275 million adults in the U.S.

"Our whole-person Identity Graph provides both personal and professional attributes of an individual, as well as online and offline identifiers," marketing material from FullContact available online reads, adding that can include names, addresses, social IDs, and MAIDs.

"MAIDs were built for the marketing and advertising community, and are tied to an individual mobile device, which makes them precise in identifying specific people," the material adds.

On a listing advertising its capability to link MAIDs to personal information, BIGDBM says "The BIGDBM Mobile file was developed from online providers, publishers and a variety of data feeds we currently obtain from a multitude of sources." That listing did not list the specific types of PII that BIGDBM offers, so Motherboard posed as a potential customer interested in sourcing such data for a stealth startup.

BIGDBM did not respond to multiple requests for comment. FullContact did not respond to a list of questions, including whether its MAIDs and PII is collected with consent, and what sort of protections FullContact has in place to stop abuse of its capability to unmask the person behind a MAID.

A screenshot of the emailed response from Brad Mack.

Edwards said that the existence of companies that explicitly link MAIDs to personal information may provide issues under privacy legislation.

"This real-world research proves that the current ad tech bid stream, which reveals mobile IDs within them, is a pseudonymous data flow, and therefore not-compliant with GDPR," Edwards told Motherboard in an online chat.

"It’s an anonymous identifier, but has been used extensively to report on user behaviour and enable marketing techniques like remarketing," a post on the website of the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), a trade group for the ad tech industry, reads, referring to MAIDs. The IAB acknowledged but ultimately did not respond to multiple requests for comment asking if it still believes that MAIDs are anonymous.

In April Apple launched iOS 14.5, which introduced sweeping changes to how apps can track phone users by making each app explicitly ask for permission to track them. That move has resulted in a dramatic dip in the amount of data available to third parties, with just 4 percent of U.S. users opting-in. Google said it plans to implement a similar opt-in measure broadly across the Android ecosystem in early 2022.

Apple and Google acknowledged requests for comment but did not provide a statement on whether they have a policy against companies unmasking the real people behind MAIDs.

Senator Wyden's statement added "I have serious concerns that Americans’ personal data is available to foreign governments that could use it to harm U.S. national security. That’s why I’ve proposed strong consumer privacy legislation, and a bill to prevent companies based in unfriendly foreign nations from purchasing Americans’ personal data."

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neyatimes · 10 months

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US imposes election-related visa restrictions on Nigerians

Reuters — The United States has imposed entry restrictions on more Nigerians for undermining the democratic process during the African nation’s 2023 election cycle, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday. “These individuals have been involved in intimidation of voters through threats and physical violence, the manipulation of vote results, and other activity that undermines…

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worldspotlightnews · 1 year

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Thailand to hold general election on May 14, poll body says | CNN

Thailand will hold elections on May 14, the national poll body said on Tuesday, a day after parliament was dissolved. The announcement came as parties step up campaigning for a nationwide contest for the support of about 52 million eligible voters. The race is shaping up to be a battle between a pro-military conservative grouping, led by the incumbent Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, against…

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reportwire · 1 year

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Jennifer McClellan sworn in as first Black congresswoman to represent Virginia | CNN Politics

CNN — Jennifer McClellan, a former Virginia state senator, was sworn in on Tuesday, becoming the first Black woman to represent the commonwealth in Congress. Her ascent to the House of Representatives is a milestone for Virginia, a state that was once home to the capital of the Confederacy and is a former slave-trading center. McClellan joins a divided Congress, in which Republicans control…

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louise-wise · 3 years

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Hey, indie (and small press) authors, want your book plugged for free? Then check this out! #indieauthor #indie #author #IARTG #selfpublishing #IABE #readingcommunity #WritingCommunity #BookTwitter #booklovers #authorlife

Promo Opportunity Alert!!

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We’re after something happy to take our minds off covid, the lockdown, Brexit, the elections or just 2020 in general.

So, if you have a book that wants plugging send me its link (here in the comments) and your Twitter handle (so you can be tagged). And that’s all I need: book link and Twitter handle.

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digital-strategy · 4 years

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MediaMath is pursuing strategic options, including a potential sale, Digiday reports. MediaMath has more than $500 million in debt and investments to recoup, so it’s a tough sell. Retailers such as Walmart and Target might have the balance sheets, but not the appetite for a big DSP takeover. Google or Amazon would certainly be blocked on antitrust grounds. AT&T? Don’t think so. Oracle and Salesforce don’t have DSPs of their own ... because they’ve been vocally opposed to owning one. Zeta Global or The Trade Desk could make the deal, but wouldn’t pay the premium. Last year, MediaMath launched the SOURCE partnership with Rubicon Project and Telaria, which have since merged … into a possible acquirer? But Rubicon’s market cap is only $770 million, so that's a pretty unlikely scenario.

IAB GOTV

The IAB and IAB Tech Lab announced on Thursday that, in response to the protests over racial inequality and scenes of violence against citizens and the press, it will give all employees two days paid time off per month between now and Election Day, Nov. 3, to volunteer for a political campaign, party or cause they believe in. Read the release. Industry trade groups rarely publicize direct political action (they need to lobby regardless of who controls the legislative or executive branch). But the IAB isn’t mincing words. “The Interactive Advertising Bureau and the IAB Tech Lab share the fears of our diverse staff and membership that the democratic principles underlying the constitutional basis of republican government in the United States are under assault.”

EBay’s Trim New Look

EBay raised its 2020 revenue forecast as ecommerce sales remain high months into the COVID-19 crisis, according to an SEC filing on Thursday. In April and May, eBay added 6 million new or reactivated customers, Bloomberg reports. The company also said it’s exploring options for a sale of its classifieds business, having sold the ticketing company StubHub last November. The classifieds unit is the last of eBay’s outlier subsidiaries, after a years-long series of divestitures going back to Skype and PayPal. Investors think that a laser-focused approach to the online marketplace and ads – without extraneous revenue lines – will improve the overall business. EBay shares closed at an all-time high, after jumping more than 6% to more than $49 during the day.

New Waze To Buy

Waze, the Google-owned mapping app, lost 60% of its revenue at the peak of the pandemic in April. There’s just no getting around the fact that the number of miles driven by app users dropped by 71%. But Waze was able to bring back some ad budgets with new products that respond to coronavirus-specific business needs, Business Insider reports. For instance, Waze built a data dashboard for a fast food chain that shows local driving and shopping patterns, which can help businesses decide where and when to reopen locations. Another new offering called "Location Personality" ads allows businesses to display whether they’re accepting drive-through or curbside pickup sales. It’ll be interesting to see whether such products remain in use after the pandemic (and if Google continues to charge for those features or provides it as default info within the app UI).

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