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@ChristianUncut Most salient point: we don’t know where LinkedIn obtained those 18 million email addresses + all the related data. The DPC doesn’t address it. And reality? LinkedIn does not need to tell them. Most likely they just bought them on the market. But the big take-takeaway? ... ➡️
@ChristianUncut ... the breaches “are now trickling down into the companies modifying their practices”. The DPCs just want to settle these things. “Pay a fine. Promise to modify your behavior”. Why? ... ➡️
@ChristianUncut ... the DPCs are out-matched. As I noted in a post earlier thisyear, Facebook has 2,500+ people handling GDPR, Google has 1,800+, MICROSOFT 1,100+, etc. Total DPCS staff across EU handling GDPR? 182 (learned at the recent EU DPO annual meeting. They have no time/staff to dig.
@ChristianUncut And all these “HURRAH! DATA PRIVACY ENFORCEMENT!” babble. Vesager’s big case against Google took eight years to complete. Further, it showed just one part of the large and sprawling antitrust issue. Even after the fine Google was left holding more than $100bn in cash ...
@ChristianUncut Vestager’s fire fighters put out the fire on the first floor ... but only after the blaze had spread to the rest of the building. GDPR “enforcement” will meet a similar fate.
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1/x Ok, a multi-part Tweet just to clarify to all of those Tweeting “It’s not Xmas! It’s Christmas!! The word ‘Christ’ is there for a reason!!” The ”X” stands for the Greek letter chi, the starting letter of “Χριστός” (Christos) in Greek. The use of the word "Xmas" in English ..
2/x .. can be traced to the year 1021. The Oxford English Dictionary's first recorded use of ”Xmas” for ”Christmas” dates to year 1551 although there is reputable scholarship tracing it’s use by monks back in 1020 or so. So ... Merry Xmas! And assuming you believe this stuff ...
3/x .. the date DEC 25th is a fallacy. Early believers didn't mark the event. They considered it a pagan practice. They also expected their Messiah to return soon and bring about the end of the world almost immediately as foretold in biblical prophecies.
But by the 3rd Century ..
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Viability of Facebook's stock. Longterm impact of these scandals on advertiser relationships/user growth. Hmm 🤔 . Marketers might not cut spending directly, but scrutiny of budgets on Facebook will increase, as will FB executives’ time to “explain things” cnbc.com/2018/11/19/fac…
And look between the lines: taking a look at Facebook's 2018 stock woes vs. strong advertising growth, it's clear that marketers are less concerned about Facebook's long-term positioning than Wall Street.
While revenue growth from the main Facebook app is expected to slow ...
... as user engagement declines, revenue from Instagram and Facebook's messaging apps (Messenger and Whatsapp) is expected to accelerate. Now, the fallout of these scandals will make it harder for the tech giant to get government approval ...
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@ChristianUncut @businessinsider @BBCRoryCJ Here’s the thing: locally and nationally and internationally, the tech industry has gone from bright young star to death star. Not only have Silicon Valley companies turned out to be roughly as dirty in their corporate maneuvering as any old oil company or military contractor ...
@ChristianUncut @businessinsider @BBCRoryCJ ... but because of the Valley’s founder worship, they’ve been almost uniquely controlled by a tiny number of people. Where does this almost unbelievably bad news cycle end for these companies? And what if the news stays bad ...
@ChristianUncut @businessinsider @BBCRoryCJ ... but the people using their products simply can’t extract themselves from the platforms tech has built?
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I first made Detective in 2002.

People, including younger cops, ask me: What's changed the most in police investigations since then?

Technology.

Which might seem like an odd answer since it's only 16 years ago...but some examples >>>
We were beginning to experiemnt with Dept #email addresses.

We handwrote reports.

Internet? Barely on a detective's radar.
Crime bulletins or alerts were photocopied & literally passed out at detective meetings. Missed the meeting? You're in the dark without someone grabbing a stack for you.

Cell phones: Nextel was popular on shared flip phones. Ideas of a take-home cellphone would be laughed at.
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(1/10) #OSINT #thread
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E-Reveal: #Reveal email addresses on #LinkedIn Profiles! chrome.google.com/webstore/detai…

? HOW DOES IT WORK?

When you visit a LinkedIn profile, the #chrome extension will (explained in tweets below 👇🏻)
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Pull the person's name and company from the page
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Convert the company name into a domain via Clearbit's [free autocomplete api](clearbit.com/docs#autocompl…)
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"We partner with more than 70 providers of mailbox and security solutions, covering 2.5 billion inboxes ... Also feeding into this data platform is our consumer network of more than 2 million consumers"

Return Path, email data harvesting since 1999:
returnpath.com/about/
In 2017, Return Path acquired ThreatWave, an 'email data company that captures and processes billions of emails each month and parses these messages into a unique data source for email intelligence', for 'Reputation, Security, and Marketing Intelligence': returnpath.com/newsroom/retur…
'we built a big data machine that parses 1 terabyte+ data a day, taking 200 million messages daily sent to 90 million+ email addresses and breaking it into structured data components'

'we receive email organically from 196 countries daily'

threatwave.com/about-us/
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1. I am no longer joking, I legit have tears in my eyes after seeing that the Nigerian Police Force still uses Yahoo Mail. I am livid.
Our governments have been TOTALLY irresponsible. You give a group of people guns. You treat them like animals and don't care about their welfare
2. I traveled in an Edo Line taxi between Benin and Abuja once and sat beside a Police Sergeant who was traveling to Abuja to bribe and lobby for VIP guard duty. He explained to me how it worked and how corruption in the police force went all the way to the top
3. At that time, this man was being paid 8,500 Naira monthly and he had a family to take care of. He explained how easy it was for policemen to move over to the dark side. He said something, "There is NO honest Nigerian policeman, we are all dirty". It haunted me for a while
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Maybe it’s time we got @SpeakerRyan up to speed then, shall we? (THREAD)
First, there’s the $43,000 soundproof phone booth Pruitt had installed in his office – which btw violates federal spending laws. Maybe @EPAScottPruitt is trying to hide something?
Then we learned that Pruitt was renting DC condo owned by an energy lobbyist with dealings at the EPA - for $50 a night. What does $50 a night in DC usually get you? 👇
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So you might have heard that Facebook has suspended #CambridgeAnalytica and Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) for fraudulent use of #data extending back to 2015. newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/03/s… Here's how to check your privacy and ad settings on @facebook. A thread.
Anyone that uses Facebook has probably given permission to an app at some stage. Maybe you use FB to sign into other sites, or you wanted to see some future predictions for fun. That's grand, but they retain access to your data even after you stop using them. Here's how to review
First go to your drop down menu & click Settings. Then click Apps. Review these carefully. For e.g. I use Kickstarter and 9gag frequently so those are grand, but see the ones like Klout and Giveaway widget? I'll want to remove permissions for those, even if only I can see posts.
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