Links Aug. 4-10, 2019

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Saturday Aug 10, 2019

Jeff Jarvis in 2010 blogged about the "self-appointed privacy police" in a blog post he titled "Privacy Wingnuts".   buzzmachine.com

Jeff Jarvis also blogged about the privacy-minded people raising relevant questions in a blog post he bullyingly titled "NY Times technobias".   buzzfeed.com

We were alerted to Jeff Jarvis' name-calling by Julia Angwin in her appearance on the Kara Swisher podcast.   vox.com/podcasts   🎙️

In 2010, Angwin opened a story on data privacy webbugs with this line "Hidden inside Ashley Hayes-Beaty's computer, a tiny file helps gather personal details about her, all to be put up for sale for a tenth of a penny."    wsj.com


Thursday Aug 8, 2019

"It’s a very parallel process. The propaganda is very similar. The internet itself is a platform. Thirty years ago, marginalized, broken, angry young people had to be met face-to-face to get recruited into a movement. Nowadays, those millions and millions of young people are living most of their lives online if they don’t have real-world connections."   theatlantic.com

"During that investigation, agents tracked the movements of almost 60 journalists, lawyers and humanitarian workers and placed them on a secret watchlist."   sandiegouniontribune.com   🐤

'Kicked out of my home' so it can be rented to tourists:   bbc.com   ➰

Monsanto corporation set up a "fusion center" to aggregate data on journalists and musician Neil Young for opposition research purposes.   theguardian.com   🐤

"Private companies might have intelligence centers that monitor legitimate criminal threats, such as cyberattacks, but 'it becomes troubling when you see corporations leveraging their money to investigate people who are engaging in their first amendment rights', said Dave Maass, the senior investigative researcher at the Electronic Frontier Foundation."   theguardian.com   🐤


Wednesday Aug 7, 2019

"Many Americans see declining levels of trust in the country, whether it is their confidence in the federal government and elected officials or their trust of each other, a new Pew Research Center report finds."   pewresearch.org

Since Brazil's new strongman president took office in January, satellite images show deforestation "trees have been disappearing at a rate of over two Manhattans a week."   economist.com   📰

"Perhaps surprisingly, bankers are fretting just as much about a candidate who is a racing certainty to make it onto the ballot: President Donald Trump." Elizabeth Warren "poses risks to their business, but Donald Trump may be more dangerous" to bankers.   economist.com   📰






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