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 okay so worldbuilding for my humanformers AU - set in a cyberpunk 2077 setting (though nothing to do with the game in terms of plot, merely using the incredible worldbuilding this game/its other content has for fun :D)
OKAY. first of all my Reasoning. simply put: the cyberpunk setting has the perfect situational dynamics to create the personalities the transformers characters have. massive class disparity, lack of rights for workers, incredible technlogy in contrast with destitution, addiction, and a looming authority (the senate vs megacorporations. same vibes. but instead of You Were Created For One Purpose And You Must Stick To It it’s work until you fall apart and then get better cyberware WE designed with your own money so you can keep working for us :) cyberpunk is a dystopian world, filled with crime, corruption and poverty. Ruled completely by power-hungry corporations and brutal governments. (SENATE) outside of city hubs, climate crisis has made living off the land essentially impossible, droughts and desertification is a massive problem.
i will be quoting various lore sources to save time but if you are someone who has indepth knowledge of the lore DO NOT call me out on inaccuracies this is for people who do not want to engage with the source content. thank you. ideally these characters live in night city because its the place i have the most information to bounce off of and create ideas for! and i cba to create a new city. ew. night city is independent from federal law, instead being completely controlled by corporate influence. the cyberpunk 2077 game is set in a world where mega corporations have essentially completely taken over, workers rights are a thing of the past. (i will be using this as a plot point often)  by this point in the narrative, the first three corporate wars strengthened the position of the megacorporations, giving them more authority than most governments. affiliations between politicians and corporations ceased to be regarded as conflicst of interest. megacorporations essentially have their own private armies they use to attack other corporations, in particular weapons manufacturer giants destroyed cities and obliterated infrastructure during their battles, all with the intent of taking out the competition. after the wars (numerous wars) it took a few decades for infrastructure and cities to be rebuilt and during this time corporations used the opportunity to get even MORE control of the population. 
ALSO the old internet has been destroyed by new generations of devestating viral programs and AI, though theres more to that situation. global servers and databanks were destroyed during this time. an incredible amount of data and human history was obliterated, but some people still venture into the old net to try and harvest data (this is where i like to try and get characters like soundwave and cosmos or jazz/blaster entwined into these narrative roles) there is a virtual barrier between human and ai controlled regions of the net, because coming in contact with AI while accessing the net is extremely dangerous (essentially), but in order to access information that was lost you have to go into unregulated areas filled with danger. this is very difficult and takes lots of specialised equipment/modifications that are not cheap or safe. it is very easy to die while attempting this (although it is not a physical death, rather your body overheating and blood boiling while you are plugged into the net. well actually it is very physical in that case but its not an ai coming out of the screen to beat you to death) 
each character i like to try and think carefully about where they would fit into the world without twisting their original morals, purpose and personalities. if u are wondering why i think about this so much: this is what i daydream about when i mentally clock out on my day job. you understand.
very much like today, but to an absolute extreme, the corporate-backed mass media are feeding society with bland, easy to digest processed news, brainwashing programs and commercials, enforcing the ever popular trend of “buy more and think less” while actively surpressing education and funnelling people into the prison system for profit. they do this because it’s easier to control people who are ignorant than those who are educated.  let me know if you’d like me to go into more detail!!
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Proof of Keys Event May Highlight Centralization of Crypto, but Some of Its Claims Are Unfounded
Bitcoin celebrated its 10th birthday on Jan. 3, and in commemoration of this milestone, the very first Proof of Keys event was held. Organized by crypto investor and podcast host Trace Mayer, it urged cryptocurrency traders to withdraw their holdings from crypto exchanges, in order to promote the decentralization and monetary independence on which Satoshi Nakamoto‘s vision for Bitcoin was founded.
However, as ostensibly positive as its message was, it was claimed on social media in the days leading up to the event that several exchanges — most notably HitBTC — had apparently been freezing accounts and preventing users from withdrawing their funds.
These are serious charges, but while they raise questions about who really owns the coins traded via big exchanges, the issue could be more complicated than HitBTC‘s detractors would have everyone believe. For one, exchanges have a record of halting withdrawals and freezing accounts as part of their normal business, so it’s not certain that HitBTC or any other exchange was specifically opposing Proof of Keys and trying to prevent a mass reclamation of Bitcoin. And secondly, it’s worth pointing out that Proof of Keys is not a grassroots, community-led event. Rather, it’s an initiative spearheaded by entrepreneur Trace Mayer, who happens to be an investor in Armory, a crypto wallet manufacturer that obviously has a financial interest in people taking their coins out of exchanges. As such, his claims of widespread account blockages should perhaps be treated with scepticism.
Charges
The suspicion that HitBTC was blocking accounts and withdrawals because of Proof of Keys emerged on Reddit and Twitter. On the HitBTC subreddit, most of the current posts have been made by users complaining that they’ve been unable to withdraw their crypto. On Jan. 1, for instance, Reddit user pedxs wrote that HitBTC is “now not allowing withdrawing, even for [my] accounts that passed KYC,” while other users have reported similar issues, in addition to claiming that the exchange is fraudulent in general.
Unsurprisingly, these reports have led to a vociferous reaction from those organizing and supportive of the Proof of Keys event. On Jan. 2, Trace Mayer noted on Twitter that a “friend” had been told by HitBTC that “Withdrawals are temporarily disabled on your account,” leading him to suggest that “@hitbtc failed #ProofOfKeys.”
Similarly, John McAfee — who also has a financial interest in a crypto wallet (Bitfi, which he was paid to endorse) — was quick to vent his spleen against the exchange. He wrote on Twitter:
I warned everyonw more than a dozen times. Don’t sign up. Don’t use it. Withdtaw your funds. I was trashed for calling out HitBT as a corrupt cimpany. Tough shit. You had six months warning from me to withdraw your funds. Do not ask me to help you now.https://t.co/Ls9mzpUSbz
— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) January 2, 2019
Complicating the issue further, Trace Mayer also reported Proof of Keys “failures” at Coinbase, Poloniex, Bitfinex, and Purse.io (an escrow service and online marketplace, rather than an exchange). However, there really isn’t much online that would confirm widespread problems (at least not on the scale of HitBTC).
For example, in the Coinbase subreddit, there is currently one post from someone bemused as to why a 72-hour quarantine on withdrawals had been imposed on them, yet there is nothing else from the period before and after Proof of Keys that would suggest something unusual or untoward. Much the same goes for the Poloniex, Bitfinex and Purse.io subreddits, although in each of these it was hard to find even a single complaint (there was one gripe about a frozen Purse.io account, but this related more to an issue with an Amazon purchase than a specific withdrawal problem).
And in fact, when it comes to the original complaint, HitBTC has itself informed Cointelegraph that there is no link between Proof of Keys day and any account suspensions. It’s spokesperson, Peter Swen, stated that frozen withdrawals were the result of internal security measures related to KYC (Know Your Customer) and AML (Anti-Money Laundering) procedures.
“These temporary, safety-related withdrawal freezings are a direct consequence of our international KYC and AML measures. These rules exist and apply to us and everybody, 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year.”
A history of withdrawal issues
It is, therefore, hard to sustain a narrative that exchanges in general were deliberately subverting Proof of Keys or unable to deal with the sheer number of withdrawals (there’s also no evidence of just how popular the event was). And while it would seem from social media that HitBTC had a comparatively high number of blocked withdrawals, it is in fact hard to prove that it deliberately set about opposing the event. Not only is this because it’s explicitly denying a link, but also because it already had a less-than-perfect reputation when it comes to withdrawals.
For example, HitBTC has a three-out-five rating on Trustpilot, with 34 percent of its ratings being one star. Many of the negative reviewers (which date from months before Proof of Keys) have complained about being unable to withdraw funds, although HitBTC’s response to this review site reveal that they strenuously deny any such problem. Equally disconcerting, there are a number of negative reviews of the exchange on crypto news and reviews sites, such as 99Bitcoins and CoinSutra, with experienced reviewers on both sites making explicit reference to difficulties in withdrawing.
In other words, HitBTC has always had reported problems with withdrawals, so it seems unlikely that the problems reported now are the result of it trying to stymie Proof of Keys day. Rather, it’s likelier that withdrawal issues have moved more into the public eye as a result of the attention surrounding Proof of Keys, leading to the impression that there has been a sudden increase in account and withdrawal suspensions. The reviews above — many of which are many months old — suggest that there hasn’t been a significant increase, even if it would be possible to say that HitBTC has indeed “failed” Proof of Keys, i.e., in the narrow sense of failing to let at least some of its users withdraw their coins.
Conflict of interest
While HitBTC’s problems need to be highlighted, some of the spotlight should also be shined on Proof of Keys day. Its organizer — Trace Mayer — is a key investor in Armory, which, as stated above, provides an open-source cryptocurrency wallet. Back in 2013, it raised $600,000 in seed funding, with this funding being “led” by Mayer, according to a statement released by Armory Technologies at the time. He has, therefore, a significant stake in seeing wallets such as Armory succeed, something that would be possibly only if crypto traders and holders shook off their dependence on such exchanges as HitBTC (and Coinbase, Poloniex and Bitfinex).
And what would be a good way of encouraging people to abandon exchanges in favor of wallets like Armory? That’s right, you guessed it: some kind of event that piggybacks on the interest in Genesis Block Day and that effectively involves urging people to take their crypto out of exchanges and put it in Armory and other wallets. Indeed, it’s this motivation that gave birth to Proof of Keys, which, as a result, now emerges as a thinly disguised marketing event masquerading as a community-driven initiative.
And it’s in this context that Mayer’s recent attempts to tar Coinbase, Poloniex and Bitfinex with the same brush as HitBTC should be framed. Without having much in the way of evidence, his recent tweets have implied that these exchanges — which, due to their popularity, are symbolic of all centralized exchanges — have consciously blocked withdrawals, with the further implication being that they oppose their customers having ownership of their coins and having sovereignty over their money. Regardless of how true this claim is, Mayer would certainly benefit if it were widely believed, given his early investment in Armory.
Centralized exchanges and market distortion
Nonetheless, the Proof of Keys event raises an important question that has often been swept under the rug by the crypto community: Are centralized exchanges really compatible with decentralized currencies that, in theory at least, are meant to be novel and radical precisely because they promise to make big financial organizations obsolete?
“Centralised exchanges are anathema to the concept of peer-to-peer trading,” says Dr. Mervyn Maistry, the CEO and co-founder of Konfidio, a Berlin-based incubator for decentralized, blockchain-based platforms. “Like most centralisation, it can make investing more convenient. However centralised control also means the possibility of centralised corruption. Custodial exchanges are anything but secure, immutable or traceable.”
Of course, up until now the rise of crypto has been almost completely dependent on exchanges, without which Bitcoin would never have risen to $19,000 at the end of 2017.
Still, it’s likely that the existence of big crypto exchanges is introducing the kinds of price and market distortions that Bitcoin and other cryptos were meant to avoid.
To cite the most obvious example, research published in June by the University of Texas found that 50 percent of Bitcoin’s 2017 price rise was a result of trade manipulations, which took place on the Bitfinex exchange and that made use of the Tether stablecoin. Given that such manipulation was also responsible for 64 percent of the rise of other major cryptocurrencies, this research offers a stark insight into how exchanges — because they have so much power over markets — can distort the price of Bitcoin and other tokens, even though these were created with the aim of avoiding distortions. Maistry adds, speaking to Cointelegraph via email:
“In the the unregulated space of crypto exchanges there is a 100 % certainty of corruption. This is exactly the same as centralised stock exchanges in the traditional world, there is a 100 percent certainty that somewhere, someone is engaging in corrupt practices.”
There have been allegations that other major exchanges have manipulated crypto markets, and while such allegations are unproven, they join with Proof of Keys day in highlighting the often opaque nature of crypto exchanges, and of the arguable need for cryptocurrency holders to become more independent in how they manage and trade their coins. With the gradual emergence of atomic swaps and decentralized exchanges, such independence is set to become increasingly possible in the future. But for now, it seems that centralized exchanges will remain popular, even with such events as Proof of Keys urging us to ditch them.
Trace Mayer has been asked for comment but has not responded as of press time.
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Your private medical data is for sale- and it’s driving a business worth billions
Although information is anonymized, data miners and agents can build up detailed dossiers on “patients ” by cross-referencing with other sources
Your medical data is for sale all of it. Adam Tanner, a comrade at Harvards institute for quantitative social science and scribe of a brand-new journal on specific topics, Our Organization, Our Data, “re just saying that” cases generally dont are well aware that their most personal information what diseases they test positive for, what surgeries they have had is the stuff of multibillion-dollar business.
But although the data is nominally deprived of personally identification information, data miners and intermediaries are toiling tirelessly to aggregate detailed dossiers on individual patients; individual patients are simply announced 24601 instead of Jean Valjean.
At medical doctors agency, Tanner told the Guardian, you close the door and you think, Im telling medical doctors my most intimate medical secrets, and exclusively my doctor knows about it. But its sold commercially. Cases are reduced to gender, age, particular ailments and vicinity. Then, Tanner said, data miners cross-reference that datum with data from pharmacies about whom they sell prescriptions to, culled by large-scale pharmacy series like Rite Aid and CVS.
In a new report from the Century Foundation secreted on Tuesday, Tanner quotes Per Lofberg of CVS: The case is not really a component of this because their reputation and connection to the prescription have been stripped off.
But other forms of data, such as information from fitness machines and search engines, are completely unregulated and have identities and places appended. A third kind of data called predictive analytics cross-references the other two and attains projections about behavior with what Tanner calls a remarkable magnitude of accuracy.
None of this technically contravenes the health insurance portability and accountability act, or Hipaa, Tanner writes. But the techniques do render increased protection of Hipaa largely toothless. Data scientists can now circumvent Hipaas privacy protections by making very sophisticated speculates, marriage anonymized patient dossiers with appointed customer charts available elsewhere with a surprising degree of accuracy, says the study.
The problem over occasion is that as you have more and more information, theres more and more about people who might be, Tanner said. He has lived in two different metropolis lately, he said; now he will educate for a year in the small city of Fairbanks, Alaska population approximately 32,000. On an index that cross-references people who have lived at places in all three municipalities over a five-year age an easy-to-find initiate of data the researcher said he could easily be the only entry.
Tanner “re just saying that” non-medical data, which beings might consider less private, is in fact easier for the owner to see. You could try to choose medical doctors based on what systems they use and whether[ those organizations] exchange your data commercially, but often you have insurance through your both employers and you dont have a choice.
Many business trade in medical data IMS Health is the one Tanner appoints most prominently in the Century Foundation report, but IBM Watson and General Electric also have professions in patient info.
The legal right of businesses to harvest and sell the information of individual patients without their dispensation has been upheld by the US supreme court of the united states, thanks to a client in which republican justices regulated in favor of IMS Health and against the attorney general of Vermont. In 2011, the supreme court impressed down a Vermont law inhibiting the sale, revealing, and use of records that uncovered the prescribing traditions of individual doctors, ruling that corporations right to free speech trumped people right to privacy.
We need to discuss this, Tanner said.[ Data miners and agents] often dont would like to speak about it because its a multibillion-dollar transaction and they say theres a great chance to advance medical science. They dont talk about the real rationale, which is market and sales.
The question of whether or not to use individual medical data in the interest of private business should be up to those individuals, Tanner resolved. If theres a chance to advance medical science, tell them acquire the occurrence to we the patients. If you want to donate your data to science, thats great, but you should have the choice. Right now, we dont have the choice.
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Your private medical data is for sale- and it’s driving a business worth billions
Although information is anonymized, data miners and agents can build up detailed dossiers on “patients ” by cross-referencing with other sources
Your medical data is for sale all of it. Adam Tanner, a comrade at Harvards institute for quantitative social science and scribe of a brand-new journal on specific topics, Our Organization, Our Data, “re just saying that” cases generally dont are well aware that their most personal information what diseases they test positive for, what surgeries they have had is the stuff of multibillion-dollar business.
But although the data is nominally deprived of personally identification information, data miners and intermediaries are toiling tirelessly to aggregate detailed dossiers on individual patients; individual patients are simply announced 24601 instead of Jean Valjean.
At medical doctors agency, Tanner told the Guardian, you close the door and you think, Im telling medical doctors my most intimate medical secrets, and exclusively my doctor knows about it. But its sold commercially. Cases are reduced to gender, age, particular ailments and vicinity. Then, Tanner said, data miners cross-reference that datum with data from pharmacies about whom they sell prescriptions to, culled by large-scale pharmacy series like Rite Aid and CVS.
In a new report from the Century Foundation secreted on Tuesday, Tanner quotes Per Lofberg of CVS: The case is not really a component of this because their reputation and connection to the prescription have been stripped off.
But other forms of data, such as information from fitness machines and search engines, are completely unregulated and have identities and places appended. A third kind of data called predictive analytics cross-references the other two and attains projections about behavior with what Tanner calls a remarkable magnitude of accuracy.
None of this technically contravenes the health insurance portability and accountability act, or Hipaa, Tanner writes. But the techniques do render increased protection of Hipaa largely toothless. Data scientists can now circumvent Hipaas privacy protections by making very sophisticated speculates, marriage anonymized patient dossiers with appointed customer charts available elsewhere with a surprising degree of accuracy, says the study.
The problem over occasion is that as you have more and more information, theres more and more about people who might be, Tanner said. He has lived in two different metropolis lately, he said; now he will educate for a year in the small city of Fairbanks, Alaska population approximately 32,000. On an index that cross-references people who have lived at places in all three municipalities over a five-year age an easy-to-find initiate of data the researcher said he could easily be the only entry.
Tanner “re just saying that” non-medical data, which beings might consider less private, is in fact easier for the owner to see. You could try to choose medical doctors based on what systems they use and whether[ those organizations] exchange your data commercially, but often you have insurance through your both employers and you dont have a choice.
Many business trade in medical data IMS Health is the one Tanner appoints most prominently in the Century Foundation report, but IBM Watson and General Electric also have professions in patient info.
The legal right of businesses to harvest and sell the information of individual patients without their dispensation has been upheld by the US supreme court of the united states, thanks to a client in which republican justices regulated in favor of IMS Health and against the attorney general of Vermont. In 2011, the supreme court impressed down a Vermont law inhibiting the sale, revealing, and use of records that uncovered the prescribing traditions of individual doctors, ruling that corporations right to free speech trumped people right to privacy.
We need to discuss this, Tanner said.[ Data miners and agents] often dont would like to speak about it because its a multibillion-dollar transaction and they say theres a great chance to advance medical science. They dont talk about the real rationale, which is market and sales.
The question of whether or not to use individual medical data in the interest of private business should be up to those individuals, Tanner resolved. If theres a chance to advance medical science, tell them acquire the occurrence to we the patients. If you want to donate your data to science, thats great, but you should have the choice. Right now, we dont have the choice.
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Your private medical data is for sale- and it’s driving a business worth billions
Although information is anonymized, data miners and agents can build up detailed dossiers on “patients ” by cross-referencing with other sources
Your medical data is for sale all of it. Adam Tanner, a comrade at Harvards institute for quantitative social science and scribe of a brand-new journal on specific topics, Our Organization, Our Data, “re just saying that” cases generally dont are well aware that their most personal information what diseases they test positive for, what surgeries they have had is the stuff of multibillion-dollar business.
But although the data is nominally deprived of personally identification information, data miners and intermediaries are toiling tirelessly to aggregate detailed dossiers on individual patients; individual patients are simply announced 24601 instead of Jean Valjean.
At medical doctors agency, Tanner told the Guardian, you close the door and you think, Im telling medical doctors my most intimate medical secrets, and exclusively my doctor knows about it. But its sold commercially. Cases are reduced to gender, age, particular ailments and vicinity. Then, Tanner said, data miners cross-reference that datum with data from pharmacies about whom they sell prescriptions to, culled by large-scale pharmacy series like Rite Aid and CVS.
In a new report from the Century Foundation secreted on Tuesday, Tanner quotes Per Lofberg of CVS: The case is not really a component of this because their reputation and connection to the prescription have been stripped off.
But other forms of data, such as information from fitness machines and search engines, are completely unregulated and have identities and places appended. A third kind of data called predictive analytics cross-references the other two and attains projections about behavior with what Tanner calls a remarkable magnitude of accuracy.
None of this technically contravenes the health insurance portability and accountability act, or Hipaa, Tanner writes. But the techniques do render increased protection of Hipaa largely toothless. Data scientists can now circumvent Hipaas privacy protections by making very sophisticated speculates, marriage anonymized patient dossiers with appointed customer charts available elsewhere with a surprising degree of accuracy, says the study.
The problem over occasion is that as you have more and more information, theres more and more about people who might be, Tanner said. He has lived in two different metropolis lately, he said; now he will educate for a year in the small city of Fairbanks, Alaska population approximately 32,000. On an index that cross-references people who have lived at places in all three municipalities over a five-year age an easy-to-find initiate of data the researcher said he could easily be the only entry.
Tanner “re just saying that” non-medical data, which beings might consider less private, is in fact easier for the owner to see. You could try to choose medical doctors based on what systems they use and whether[ those organizations] exchange your data commercially, but often you have insurance through your both employers and you dont have a choice.
Many business trade in medical data IMS Health is the one Tanner appoints most prominently in the Century Foundation report, but IBM Watson and General Electric also have professions in patient info.
The legal right of businesses to harvest and sell the information of individual patients without their dispensation has been upheld by the US supreme court of the united states, thanks to a client in which republican justices regulated in favor of IMS Health and against the attorney general of Vermont. In 2011, the supreme court impressed down a Vermont law inhibiting the sale, revealing, and use of records that uncovered the prescribing traditions of individual doctors, ruling that corporations right to free speech trumped people right to privacy.
We need to discuss this, Tanner said.[ Data miners and agents] often dont would like to speak about it because its a multibillion-dollar transaction and they say theres a great chance to advance medical science. They dont talk about the real rationale, which is market and sales.
The question of whether or not to use individual medical data in the interest of private business should be up to those individuals, Tanner resolved. If theres a chance to advance medical science, tell them acquire the occurrence to we the patients. If you want to donate your data to science, thats great, but you should have the choice. Right now, we dont have the choice.
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