‘Wi-Fried’ — Is Wireless Technology Dooming a Generation to Ill Health?
Story at-a-glance below the fold
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I Downloaded the Information That Facebook Has on Me. Yikes.
With a few clicks, I learned that about 500 advertisers — many that I had never heard of, like Bad Dad, a motorcycle parts store, and Space Jesus, an electronica band — had my contact information, which could include my email address, phone number and full name. Facebook also had my entire phone book, including the number to ring my apartment buzzer.
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Rep. Scalise Grills Zuckerberg on Anti-Conservative Algorithm Change, Favors to Obama Campaign
Phi Beta Iota: Scalise asked the right question. Zuckerberg appears to have lied with knowledge of falsity and malice toward Congress and the public.

Very long and very good article.
How Silicon Valley, spooks and the super rich took control of the 21st century
It is a story that extends beyond a limited set of corporate players and the billionaire super-class
ANSWER: Our entire loss of privacy rights should be a major class action lawsuit. To sign up for anything, they have tremendous detailed legal agreements where effectively you wave all your rights to privacy. It is a situation where UNLESS you wave your rights, you cannot participate in the digital world. My personal legal theory is straightforward. I will be glad to help any law firm that wishes to bring such an action. You CANNOT possibly waive any Constitutional right whatsoever BECAUSE such an act of waiver means that every person in this country, even if not a citizen, can constructively amend the Constitution. That means the Constitution is a scrap of paper with no substance.

Data, Social Media, and Users: Can We All Get Along?
Data Ownership, Rights, and Usage: Consumers' expectations and reality on who owns data and how data may be used are commonly misaligned.
Data Security and Privacy: Data security is not generally prescribed by law for the information technology sector.