December 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Facebook to Pay $725 Million to settle Lawsuit Over Cambridge Analytica Data Leak
by Gunnar Larson 28 Dec '22

28 Dec '22

https://thehackernews.com/2022/12/facebook-to-pay-725-million-to-settle.html Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a long-running class-action lawsuit filed in 2018. The legal dispute sprang up in response to revelations that the social media giant allowed third-party apps such as those used by Cambridge Analytica to access users' personal information without their consent for political advertising. The proposed … [View More]settlement, first reported by Reuters last week, is the latest penalty paid by the company in the wake of a number of privacy mishaps through the years. It still requires the approval of a federal judge in the San Francisco division of the U.S. District Court. It's worth noting that Facebook previously sought to dismiss the lawsuit in September 2019, claiming users have no legitimate privacy interest in any information they make available to their friends on social media. CyberSecurity The data harvesting scandal, which came to light in March 2018, involved a personality quiz app called "thisisyourdigitallife" that allowed users' public profiles, page likes, dates of birth, genders, locations, and even messages (in some cases) to be collected for building psychographic profiles. Created by a Cambridge University lecturer named Aleksandr Kogan in 2013, the app claimed to reveal users' personality traits based on what they had liked on Facebook by scraping their profile information in exchange for a small payment. Through Global Science Research (GSR), a company Kogan founded in 2014, the data was then passed on to Cambridge Analytica, a British political consultancy firm owned by SCL Group, as part of a research project. While around 300,000 users are said to have taken the psychological test, the app collected the private data of those who installed the app as well as their Facebook friends without seeking explicit permission, leading to a dataset spanning 87 million profiles. thisisyourdigitallife was subsequently banned by Facebook in 2015 for contravention of its platform policy, with the company also sending a legal request to GSR and Cambridge Analytica to delete the improperly acquired data. Only it turned out later that the unauthorized data was never purged to begin with and that the consulting firm, now defunct, used the personal information from millions of Facebook accounts for purposes of voter profiling and targeting ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. "This was a breach of trust between Kogan, Cambridge Analytica, and Facebook," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at the time. "But it was also a breach of trust between Facebook and the people who share their data with us and expect us to protect it." The bombshell expose fueled government scrutiny on both sides of the Atlantic, prompting the company to settle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in 2019. The same year, Meta was also slapped with a record-breaking $5 billion fine following a probe initiated by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) into its privacy practices and to settle charges that the firm undermined users' choice to control the privacy of their personal information. Meta – which has not admitted to any wrongdoing in relation to the problematic data-sharing practice – has since taken steps to curtail third-party access to user information. The tech giant further rolled out a tool called Off-Facebook Activity for users to "see a summary of the apps and websites that send us information about your activity, and clear this information from your account if you want to." Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter  and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post. [View Less]

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Alex Jones transcript has details (with times, this time) of comms between John █████ , him, & Roger Stone.
by professor rat 28 Dec '22

28 Dec '22

The Alex Jones transcript actually has details (with times, this time) of some comms between Wren, SORRY, not John " Cryptome " Young, him, and Roger Stone. How can so many 90's c-punks go so bad so fast? Its very Assange - I'll have to ask Adam next we meet.

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Re: ANARCHISM AND CRYPTOCURRENCY
by professor rat 28 Dec '22

28 Dec '22

Cool to see other pro-crypto. I've never understood the hatred against crypto coming from the left ANARCHISM AND CRYPTOCURRENCY Inbox SMS sucks <sms_sucks(a)proton.me> To: professor rat Wed, 28 Dec at 1:24 pm Cool to see other pro-crypto. I've never understood the hatred against crypto coming from the left

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Treating national-integrity as damage and routing around it
by professor rat 28 Dec '22

28 Dec '22

Bitcoin requires internet–and a rudimentary understanding of maths and typically, English. https://cointelegraph.com/news/making-the-case-that-bitcoin-is-not-freedom-… Reposts not Nayib the Cruel's police-force

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Bloomberg Law Reports Litigation Finance is an Investment in National Integrity - Litigation Finance Journal
by Gunnar Larson 27 Dec '22

27 Dec '22

Check out my new article: https://litigationfinancejournal.com/bloomberg-law-reports-litigation-finan… The United States Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform recently warned that litigation finance is a potential risk to national security. Bloomberg Law has published a rebuttal to such claims, hailing Consumer Legal Funding as a cornerstone of many United States households seeking much needed cash flow during the litigation process. Bloomberg Law claims that Consumer Legal Funding … [View More]

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ANARCHISM AND CRYPTOCURRENCY
by professor rat 27 Dec '22

27 Dec '22

Why does Gramps hate our anarchist freedoms? https://anarchistnews.org/content/anarchism-and-cryptocurrency Reposts not rightwing Austro-libertarian garbage

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Assassination coordinates for me but not for thee
by professor rat 27 Dec '22

27 Dec '22

KrisGoldsmith85 · 8h Veterans at @TeamTFButler analyzed Chaya Raichik’s “Libs of TikTok” tweets and the real-world events that follow. We release our findings at noon EST TODAY. Mrowsudyn @mrowsudyn · 16h Replying to @drmistercody ‘Assassination coordinates for me but not for thee.’ https://twitter.com/drmistercody/status/1607603002805731330

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The color-conductivity of money
by professor rat 27 Dec '22

27 Dec '22

As a graduate student at Columbia University in New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he discovered several of the most important ideas in quantum information theory, including quantum money (which led to quantum key distribution), quantum multiplexing (the earliest example of oblivious transfer) and superdense coding (the first and most basic example of entanglement-assisted communication). Although this work remained unpublished for over a decade,… [View More]

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Don't shoot the armless piano-player
by professor rat 27 Dec '22

27 Dec '22

Don't shoot the oncoming cybernetics messenger. For here is yet another case of the Austrian school being made laughing-stocks again. The few dead-enders in there must be gluttons for punishment. I was walking along the road with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence – there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city – my friends walked on, and I stood there … [View More]

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Giving yourself a task in the future
by professor rat 27 Dec '22

27 Dec '22

Learning quantum PKI, computing and underlying theory presents as a steep curve for many. Lateral thinking about psychedelics and liberal use of social mnemonics might help. Maybe. Or ' Let the machines do it ". Especially quantum AI machines full of loving grace and kindness. https://josephnoelwalker.com/141-intellectual-exoskeletons-andy-matuschak/ Reposts not authoritarian assumptions often made but seldom remarked

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