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Live hearing: Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance, and Data Security on “Oversight of the Federal Trade Commission” discussing Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, questions re: Acting AG Whitaker's role w/scam co WPM, and more
@SenBlumenthal asked FTC Chairman if he was aware of UK DCMS @DamianCollins finding that Russia accessed FB data and if FTC is monitoring Cambridge Analytica bankruptcy

FTC Chmn Joseph Simons confirms ongoing FB investigation but won't provide details

@SenatorTomUdall asks about Acting AG Whitaker's role in World Patent Marketing scam and how he failed to respond to a subpoena from the FTC - Udall asks if there's any prior instance of anyone refusing to reply to FTC subpoena

FTC panel is quiet, no one knows a similar instance
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US Supreme Court rejects Exxon in climate change document fight - Ruling clears the way for Massachusetts attorney general to obtain records from Exxon Mobil Corp to probe whether it concealed its knowledge of the role fossil fuels play in climate change news.trust.org/item/201901071…
What Exxon knew about the Earth's melting Arctic - Oct 2015 story by @katiedjennings @susrust @sarajerving @amylieberman that helped lead to investigations/lawsuits by MA and NY attorney generals
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With speculation about the arrest of Paul Whelan as a ploy for a swap with Maria Butina - another name to keep an eye on is Konstantin Yaroshenko - a Russian pilot sentenced to 20 yrs in US jail related to cocaine smuggling with Viktor Bout - Yaroshenko has been a focus for Putin
Now that Russia's charged a US citizen, who are the bargaining chips?
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Another theory about a possible swap for Whelan - Leonid Teif/Teyf
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Leonid Teyf, a Russian living in North Carolina, who was accused with his wife of a murder-for-hire plot and $150 million kickback scheme, is now reported by Novaya Gazeta to have ties to Yevgeny Prigozhin who was indicted by Mueller for election tampering
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Here's original article that describes how Leonid Teyf was the Deputy Director of Voentorg, a company which contracted with Russia’s Ministry of Defense - and he provided Prigozhin with outsourcing contracts for the supply of power to army units
novayagazeta.ru/articles/2018/…
December 13 AP story on Leonid Teyf: North Carolina couple accused of running $150 million kickback scheme - Prosecutors also claim the husband was plotting to kill the son of a former housekeeper — whom he suspected of having an affair with his wife.
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When you wrote this, hopefully you had read it our aloud, the inconsistencies abound. A few points
1) There is no law requiring mandatory usage of Social Security Number (SSN) in the United States. STOP MISLEADING
SSN =PAN in India. It does not have any biometric data.

The Social Security Administration regularly suggests that if asked to provide his or her Social Security number, a citizen should ask which law requires its use
If the #Aadhaar database stores nothing secret, imp and even if it leaks like sieve, why @UIDAI has taken and will continue to take measures to ensure that its database remains secure? Why waste taxpayers money?
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#Facebook thread:
Ahead of Zuckerberg's Congress testimony, a quick revision guide.
All you need to know about Facebook (and why you should be concerned), brought to you by the Observer/Guardian's investigation into data and democracy...
Hard to believe it was less than a month ago that @carolecadwalla broke the story about GSR harvesting 50m+ Facebook profiles for @CamAnalytica to use in political campaigning:
Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica.. theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
Via the first major interview with @CamAnalytica whistleblower @chrisinsilico which explained Facebook had known about the leak for at least 18months and detailed Robert Mercer / Steve Bannon's central roles ‘I made Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
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Facebook has some really creepy plans!
Just check their patents!
Small thread with thanks to @jashkenas 👇

1⃣ Facebook wants to track your eye movements
using special infrared LEDs that shine into your pupil & cornea to determine gaze patents.google.com/patent/US20180… #Facebook #privacy
Facebook wants to reads your comments for positive or negative “affinity scores”
to generate sentiments and “trust scores”
and use the resulting data sets from trusted users
to train a machine learning model
patents.google.com/patent/US20180… | #privacy #facebook
to manipulate people..
3⃣ Facebook wants to “automatically sense, record and identify all types of activities such as walking, running, jogging, cycling, rowing, driving with car, bus, train, walking stairs, jumping, swimming, playing football & skiing” patents.google.com/patent/US20150… | #Facebook #privacy
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Back in Brussels 🇪🇺 after 3 weeks in DC & NYC 🇺🇸

High on my 'To do' list:

Catching up on avalanche of news on #CambridgeAnalyticaFiles.
Starting here:

‘I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool.’

Meet @chrisinsilico, the data war whistleblower.

#CambridgeAnalyticaFiles #CambridgeAnalytica
#InformationWarfare #BigTech #BigData

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Read & follow @carolecadwalla for outstanding reporting on the big, dark tangled web of Brexit, Trump, Russia -- and how Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, WikiLeaks, Bannon, the Mercers, are involved.

#CambridgeAnalyticaFiles #BigTech #BigData

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Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach
Whistleblower describes how firm linked to former Trump adviser Steve Bannon compiled user data to target American voters  theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
Cambridge Analytica who worked with Trump’s team and the winning Brexit campaign harvested millions of FB profiles of US voters, in the tech giant’s biggest ever data breach, and used them to build a powerful software program to predict and influence choices at the ballot box.
They used personal information taken without authorization in early 2014 to build a system that could profile individual US voters, in order to target them with personalised political advertisements.
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1/ We’ve been collecting political ads on Facebook. We found a lot of political ads. propub.li/2ASvpyL

We also found some straight-up scams that froze users’ computers, instructed them to call a toll-free number, and then asked for money. propub.li/2ATN0GI
2/ Facebook had many prior specific warnings about these scam ads. Many had been flagged by users, fact-checking groups and cybersecurity services—even the Federal Trade Commission.
3/ Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg recently said the social network had missed “more subtle” election interference in part because its security team had been focused on “the biggest threats” of malware and phishing. axios.com/exclusive-inte…
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