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Bully insisted he had won the election

jeudi 15 septembre 2022 à 00:32

In November 2020, the bully insisted to his aides that he had won the election and would refuse to leave the White House.

Prison for talking brashly to thugs

jeudi 15 septembre 2022 à 00:32

Brittany Martin was sentenced to four years in prison for talking back brashly to some South Carolina thugs while she was in a Black Lives Matter protest.

Monitoring when you ovulate

jeudi 15 septembre 2022 à 00:32

The latest Apple spy-watch uses sensors to monitor when you ovulate; it doesn't need to ask you. And it will give that data to various companies and governments.

With that data, governments can tell that you probably had a miscarriage or an abortion. That will provides grounds to subpoena more data so as to decide whether to prosecute you.

The device may offer you the choice to disable the feature, but since the software is non-free, which implies it is controlled by Apple rather than by the users, it could be drawing those conclusions and showing them to companies and governments, while pretending that it does not.

Curb surveillance empire

jeudi 15 septembre 2022 à 00:32

*Coalition Tells FTC to Curb Amazon 'Surveillance Empire' by Blocking Purchase of iRobot.*

It is a good reason to do so, but Amazon is simply too big and should not be allowed to buy any other companies.

Food price increases

jeudi 15 septembre 2022 à 00:32

Shortages and crises trigger food price increases, then banks and giant food companies take advantage to push the price up.