Senate Democrats brought the PRESS Act to the floor for a unanimous consent vote today. As expected, Sen. Tom Cotton gave a speech objecting to the bill and so it failed to pass.
Sen. Schumer still has the time and the power to bring the bipartisan PRESS Act up for real consideration by the Senate before the congressional term ends — either by attaching it to a year-end spending bill or bringing it up for a stand-alone vote.
The following statement can be attributed to Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Director of Advocacy Seth Stern:
"We need more than speeches about the PRESS Act’s importance. We need action. Senate Democrats had all year to move this bipartisan bill and now time is running out. Leader Schumer needs to get the PRESS Act into law — whether by attaching it to a year-end legislative package or bringing it to the floor on its own — even if it means shortening lawmakers’ holiday break. Hopefully, today
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Speeches aren’t enough – pass the PRESS Act!
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Senate Democrats brought the PRESS Act to the floor for a unanimous consent vote today. As expected, Sen. Tom Cotton gave a speech objecting to the bill and so it failed to pass.
Sen. Schumer still has the time and the power to bring the bipartisan PRESS Act up for real consideration by the Senate before the congressional term ends — either by attaching it to a year-end spending bill or bringing it up for a stand-alone vote.
The following statement can be attributed to Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Director of Advocacy Seth Stern:
"We need more than speeches about the PRESS Act’s importance. We need action. Senate Democrats had all year to move this bipartisan bill and now time is running out. Leader Schumer needs to get the PRESS Act into law — whether by attaching it to a year-end legislative package or bringing it to the floor on its own — even if it means shortening lawmakers’ holiday break. Hopefully, today was a preview of more meaningful action to come."
The PRESS Act, which has widespread support among both Democrats and Republicans in Congress, would protect reporters across the political spectrum from being spied on by the government, and from being threatened with jail time to force them to testify against their sources. It passed the House unanimously in early 2024.
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Location data firm helps US police find out when suspects visited their doctor
A location-tracking company that sells its services to police departments is apparently using addresses and coordinates of doctors’ and lawyers’ offices and other types of locations to help cops compile lists of places visited by suspects, according to a 404 Media report published today.
Fog Data Science, which says it “harness[es] the power of data to safeguard national security and provide law enforcement with actionable intelligence,” has a “Project Intake Form” that asks police for locations where potential suspects and their mobile devices might be found.
Who needs a surveillance state when the data can just be purchased by the government?
This all comes down to the power of aggregating lots of metadata. If one takes just a single app like WhatsApp where the T&C’s allow for a full range of metadata to be collected by the app and passed upstream to Meta, who leaks data to 3rd parties, it is very easy to see how all this is possible. WhatsApp (just as an example as it is not known whether WhatsApp is the source of this data) knows who you talk to, when you talk to them, where you are exactly, where you live, how often you use your phone, what roads you travel on, where you visit, and lost more. It may not be able to read your E2EE messages, but it knows everything else, and its users have given consent for the data to be passed to 3rd parties.
I really have no idea how such information can be allowed to be traded and sold to interested parties. Many countries only allow such data to be collected and provided to law enforcement after a court order is obtained by law enforcement. As TikTok is still Chinese owned, I’m doubting if this data is being provided by TikTok to US data brokers. It is more likely US owned social networks providing this data themselves (purely my guess, though).
I can see why more and more users are distrusting these companies which provide free services, and then sell their data. The thing is, if law enforcement and governments are buying the data to get around their own legal restrictions, I just don’t see this situation really changing.
As users, we need to shun the use of such services (which is why I deleted my WhatsApp account when the T&C’s changed). It is also worth trying to rather use social networks that fall under the legislation of more privacy-friendly countries. Which also makes me a bit suspicious of why the US wants to maybe force the sale of TikTok to a US company… If that happens, I’ll be deleting my TikTok account too.
It seems more and more to me that social networks are the ideal way to find out who goes where and who they are communicating with… There is certainly lots of economic value in this, otherwise data brokers would not be doing such a roaring trade. They should just be aware though that they are very likely breaking the privacy laws of many non-US countries (not just the EU) if those citizens data is being sold in the USA. It’s time these other countries woke up and took note of what is going on.
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Wait, it has been a while since I've seen this, but if it was a Borg saying that, they're quite authority driven too. Even excluding the fact it later turns out they have a queen (which may not have been canon at that point) it's still each drone receiving orders from the collective.
Maybe it has been long enough to re-re-re-re-watch TNG.
Non riesco ad aggiungere Feddit alla lista account dell' app Mastodon (Android)... sbaglio forse il nome dell' istanza? Io inserisco feddit.it e dice che non è n istanza valida. Lo stesso con Bookwyrm.it ma mi da un errore diverso...
Il Web sociale è un patrimonio che dobbiamo custodire e soprattutto usare. Questa prima parte è un’introduzione generale al Web sociale e visione “stereoscopica” del Fediverso attraverso due esperienze totalmente diverse: Mastodon e Lemmy.
Il Web sociale è un patrimonio che dobbiamo custodire e soprattutto usare. Questa prima parte è un’introduzione generale al Web sociale e visione “stereoscopica”…
President-elect Donald Trump’s recent dinner with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his visit to Paris for the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral were not just exercises in policy and diplomacy.
Luigi Nicholas Mangione was apparently living a charmed one: the grandson of a wealthy real estate developer, valedictorian of his elite Baltimore prep school and with degrees from one of the nation’s top private universities.
I like a little honey in my coffee. The last sip is always **way too sweet** because i’ve left it long enough that all the honey has settled to the bottom of the mug. “Not cool, brain,” i sometimes quip. We have fun, me and my brain.
- Oh wait, I forgot! That's my tea! Why are you pouring it out? - It's been sitting here for hours and it's cold. - Oh sweet summer child, if I didn't drink cold tea, I wouldn't ever get to drink any tea at all. And not for lack of trying.
Chatter on #telegram channel of Syrian opposition is the feel of betrayal anger despair watching US and Israel destroying everything in the country. From headquarters of security police, to university research facilities, almost all remaining fighterjets, airbases, weapon storage, air defense, artilery and heavy weapons and on top of everything Israel invasion of major strategic areas only 20km from #Damascus.
Video of the aftermath of last night's massive Israeli bombing of Ladheqhie port in #Syria is available on my telegram channel t.me/newsvideofa/3063
They at getting an early wake up call about how it feels to be at the mercy of the west governments in modern history who claimeto be the moral guardians of the western civilization.
Luigi Mangione, who was arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, once belonged to a group of Ivy League gamers who played assassins, a member of the group told NBC News.
It was mentioned years ago and will be re-emphasized here, due to late developments with the kernel, that wordpress.com is a free service server of a for profit organization. Although we would nev…
Google unveils 'mind-boggling' quantum computing chip
Can solve a problem in five minutes that would take the next fastest computer 17 septillion years. Reminiscent of The Nine Billion Names of God by Clarke. Monks toiling on a universe-ending project would need 15K years to complete manually. Then they get ahold of a computer…
Da hat man den VW-Konzern jahrelang gewarnt, dass die Leute nicht ewig Diesel kaufen werden aber vergeblich. BWLer dachten sie könnten das mit Ignoranz aussitzen (der alte Trick, der schon bei Merkel nicht funktioniert hat).
Deswegen Vergleiche ich mal VW mit einer Gans: Die Gans wird gefüttert und findet das toll. Sie macht sich um die Zukunft keine Sorgen. Es gibt jedem Tag Futter. Die Gans mag den Menschen, der sie füttert und jeden Tag wird das Gefühl noch verstärkt.
Doch dann ist Weihnachten 😱🔪 🍗
Für VW ist jetzt auch Weihnachten und deswegen ist VW eine dumme Gans und BWL eine Vernichtungswissenschaft!
Ich bin nicht so sicher bezüglich der Gans VW, aber zumindest während meines Studiums haben eigentlich alle etwas schräg auf BWL und seine Studiosis geschaut. Die waren halt anders... VW ist mMn einfach Überheblichkeit und Faulheit. "Die Regierung wird uns schon helfen, es geht schließlich um Arbeitsplätze." Bis das eben irgendwann nicht mehr klappt...
Hat mich im Studium (Wirtschaftsinformatik, BWL mit einer winzigen Prise IT und nicht umgekehrt wie man meinen könnte, hab ich aber auch erst während des Studiums realisiert und einfach ausgesessen, denn letztlich ist es egal welches Fach auf dem Diplom steht und Informatik wäre echt anstrengend gewesen und Coden lernt man eh nicht an der Uni) auch fasziniert, dass die BWL-Profs gefühlt das halbe erste Semester damit verbringen, zu erklären, warum BWL eine Wissenschaft ist. Nein, ist es nicht. Es ist ein Handwerk. Das Handwerk, zu machen, dass ein Unternehmen nicht pleite geht. Und manche dieser Handwerker sind halt nicht gut. Manchmal sind das sogar die hochbezahlten, die dadurch selbst glauben, sie wären supergut.
#hockeyporespn hockey sobre césped. el equipo argentino femenino de hockey: las leonas empataron contra alemania por 2 a 2 y luego fueron a penales: y gano argentina contra alemania por 3 a 2
A gene that causes skull malformation when mutated has just been linked to schizophrenia, a condition known for causing unsettling hallucinations and disordered thinking.
Researchers have linked spending more time playing video games with a boost in intelligence in children, which goes some way to contradicting the narrative that gaming is bad for young minds.
