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David Carroll 🦅
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Watched #TheGreatHack this weekend? Mindblown and/or outraged? California resident? Read about industry efforts to water down the landmark California Consumer Privacy Act #CCPA which is the first law in the USA to grant a Right to Know. Defend California law from loophole lobby!
Watched #TheGreatHack this weekend? Mindblown and/or outraged? New Yorker? Read about the bill in Albany that’s even bolder than California’s law. Then join me in writing to my local reps asking them to watch the film and pass the strongest bill possible. wired.com/story/new-york…
The next great hack is around #MoscowMitch who will surely block a landmark national privacy law. We must pass privacy laws in the statehouses first so that the industry pressures McConnell for preemption but voters will gain federalist leverage over the inevitable concessions.
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David Carroll 🦅
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My quick searches on fec.gov show that the owner of the poultry processor (Peco Foods LLC, Hickman family) that was raided by ICE in Alabama is a big donor to the the GOP. Huh. Go figure. washingtonpost.com/immigration/ic…
*sorry technically the raids were in Mississippi but the company is Alabama based
How do GOP-aligned businesses in the deep white south square-up with Trump’s immigration crackdown on their businesses who employ undocumented immigrants?
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David Carroll 🦅
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Ironically, just days before the #CambridgeAnalytica scandal broke last spring, SCL Group had presented research to State Dept’s Global Engagement Center about Counterpointing Digital Propaganda with their TAA methods, once export controlled by UK government. #TheGreatHack
And weirdly enough this contract to SCL Group for CVE (Countering Violent Extremism) with TAA (Target Audience Analysis) seems to have been secured no-bid/sole-source while Mike Flynn had previously undisclosed consulting gig with SCL Group. #TheGreatHack
SCL Insights Ltd is the last-standing SCL company, led by Nigel Oakes, who acquired assets from SCL Group before it went into administration. Sensitive security-clearanced clients and personnel were probably swept into this company. fastcompany.com/90381366/the-m…
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David Carroll 🦅
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Cloudflare may have been pressured to dump 8chan from DDOS shielding but Facebook is still pumping news feeds with xenophobia and scapegoating for profit after getting caught for being deceptive about Cambridge Analytica. #TheGreatHack
Mad as hell about #TheGreatHack? Not gonna take it anymore? Ready to demand #DataRights? Write to your Reps about the #VoterPrivacyAct to demand your data rights for elections as fundamental, simple rights. Demand they pass and enforce before Nov 2020.
🏛feinstein.senate.gov/public/_cache/…
Fellow Americans, write to your state representatives and senators about #VoterPrivacyAct and demand something like it passed in your statehouse before Nov 2020. How else are we gonna hack around Mitch McConnell? #Federalism #MoscowMitch #TheGreatHack
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Alastair Thompson
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Just watched "#TheGreatHack" the #CambridgeAnalytica Netflix documentary featuring @carolecadwalla and Brittany Kaiser. It lays it all out there in a very compelling way, reminded me of #CitizenFour. netflix.com/fr-en/title/80… /1
@carolecadwalla Carole has written about the documentary here >>
@carolecadwalla As I watched it, it took me back to what turned out to be a prophetic story published by @NafeezAhmed back at the end of 2017, before @chrisinsilico went public, before the @Facebook day of infamy on capitol hill, and before anyone knew about SCL. /3
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Do not. Do not. DO. NOT. agree to a facial recognition scan at any airport in the United States or Europe. It is a violation of privacy laws in the US and no law in the EEA requires you to. Do NOT just listen to the @TSA, @Delta, @JetBlue, etc agent telling you to.

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They will not tell you it's optional. They will not tell you it's against existing privacy laws. They will not tell you that your face scan is sent to the same US agency that cages thousands of children without charges permanently.

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They will not tell you that they have ZERO authority to try to make you. They will not produce a privacy policy on demand. They will not cite a law or policy directive that empowers them to request it. They may offer you a link to a policy buried somewhere no one could find.

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"We shouldn’t have to take the time to go to every company in our lives and ask them to stop invading our privacy," says EFF's @htsuka.

But the CA Assembly's Privacy Committee has voted to weaken, not strengthen the California Consumer Privacy Act. fastcompany.com/90338036/big-b…
The Committee, led by @AsmEdChau, voted to advance several bills favorable to industry, including @AsmAutumnBurke’s bill to effectively increase the cost of asserting privacy rights and @jacquiirwin’s bill to weaken critical consumer privacy protections. eff.org/deeplinks/2019…
We will continue to fight the industry bills advanced by the Assembly Privacy Committee, and champion stronger privacy legislation such as @senhannahbeth’s S.B. 561. fastcompany.com/90338036/big-b… @Portantino @senatorpatbates @SenToniAtkins @SenateHertzberg
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HAPPENING NOW: House Committee on Energy and Commerce (@EnergyCommerce) is holding a hearing on “Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Big Data.” Watch here:
energycommerce.house.gov/committee-acti…
.@BrandingBrandi of @colorofchange, testifying to the committee, connects privacy rights to broader civil rights. Threats to privacy disproportionately impact people of color, low-income communities, and other marginalized people.
Personal data, even if it feels innocuous, can become a proxy for protected class or sensitive information. This can be used to discriminate in employment, health, advertising, and marketing practices. #privacy
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ashkan soltani
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Today is the day #CALeg votes to pass the #AB375 bill - otherwise the California Consumer Privacy Act @caprivacyorg ballot initiation moves forward.

Either would mark a huge win for Californian's #privacy rights
The most ironic thing from yesterdays public comments hearing on #AB375/@caprivacyorg:

All the industry lobbyists complaining about this "take it or leave it" #privacy deal that would prevent them from forcing consumers to take the industry's "take it or leave it" #privacy deal
Although it *was* slightly concerning that practically every assemblyman and industry representative made sure to mention that "they're looking forward to the clean-up amendments" if #AB375 does pass -- almost verbatim as if they were orchestrated by Sinclair Media
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sevvie Rose
@sevvierose
(1) The #California Legislature is panicking tonight. They're currently presented with a watered-down #ConsumerProtection bill that would require tech companies to disclose the data collected on users, and delete the data collected on them at request. leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavC…
(2) This bill poses a huge threat to the profits of FAANG corporations, and it poses a threat to the companies who rely on this data to sell advertisers and political groups analytics on prospective consumers/voters.

Why is it such a problem, though?
(3) The #CCPA is actually quite milquetoast, as it's written now. But if they don't pass this bill, California has a much bigger problem coming for them in November: the will of the people.
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