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Facebook and Google use ‘dark patterns' around privacy settings, report says

Facebook, Google and Microsoft push users away from privacy-friendly options on their services in an “unethical” way, according to a report by the Norwegian Consumer Council.

It studied the privacy settings of the firms and found a series of “dark patterns”, including intrusive default settings and misleading wording.

The firms gave users “an illusion of control”, its report suggested.

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2018/07/012018/06/30

Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon’s Pharma Play — Selling Names to Police for Gun Confiscation?

Advanced Cyber/IO, Commerce, Corruption, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency

Amazon: Information and Its Pharma Play

Amazon sells quite a few health related products. One I found interesting is Amazon’s hydrogen peroxide. That’s an interesting chemical, and I wondered who has order a higher concentration version. I assumed that Amazon could answer that question, among others; for example, who bought certain books describing the use of the compound.

I thought about Amazon’s health products when I read “Amazon to Buy Online Pharmacy PillPack, Jumping Into the Drug Business.” I think the deal is an interesting one, but my view is different. Hey, I live in rural Kentucky, one of the states associated with opioid abuse.

Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon's Pharma Play — Selling Names to Police for Gun Confiscation?”

2018/06/292018/06/27

#GoogleGestapo: YouTube Blocks MIT Videos

Commerce, Corruption, Idiocy, Ineptitude, IO Impotency, Media

YouTube Suddenly Blocks Videos from MIT and Blender

YouTube’s New Absurd Piracy Filters, Blocks MIT Courses (Updated)

2018/06/29

Mongoose: White Helmets Planning False Flag Gas Attack in Idlib Syria? Could US False Flags Backfire and Justify Nation-Wide Concealed Carry for All Voters?

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, Law Enforcement, Media

White Helmets are helping Syrian militants prepare ‘false flag’ chemical attack – Idlib residents

The notorious White Helmets have brought chemicals, protective gear and cameras to militant-controlled Idlib in Syria, in an apparent preparation of yet another false-flag attack, locals told the Russian Reconciliation Center.

Continue reading “Mongoose: White Helmets Planning False Flag Gas Attack in Idlib Syria? Could US False Flags Backfire and Justify Nation-Wide Concealed Carry for All Voters?”

2018/06/282018/06/27

Joachim Hagopian: Israel is the organ harvesting and human trafficking global ringleader, with complicit help from US and Turkey

07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Government

Israel is the organ harvesting and human trafficking global ringleader, with complicit help from US and Turkey

Israel is at the top. It has tentacles reaching out worldwide… [Israeli organ traffickers] had and still have a pyramid system at work that's awesome… they have brokers everywhere, bank accounts everywhere; they've got recruiters, they've got translators, they've got travel agents who set up the visas.

Tip of the Hat to Contributing Editor Berto Jongman

2018/06/282018/06/26