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from American Military News
Media/News Company in New York, NY
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from Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Nonprofit Organization in San Francisco, CA
Win! Landmark Seventh Circuit Decision Says Fourth Amendment Applies to Smart Meter Data
The Seventh Circuit just handed down a landmark opinion, ruling 3-0 that the Fourth Amendment protects energy-consumption data collected by smart meters. Smart meters collect energy usage data at high frequencies—typically every 5, 15, or 30 minutes—and therefore know exactly how much electricity is being used, and when, in any given household. The court recognized that data from these devices reveals intimate details about what’s going on inside the home that would otherwise be unavailable to the government without a physical search. The court held that residents have a reasonable expectation of privacy in this data and that the government’s access of it constitutes a “search.”
Win! Landmark Seventh Circuit Decision Says Fourth Amendment Applies to Smart Meter Data
The Seventh Circuit just handed down a landmark opinion, ruling 3-0 that the Fourth Amendment protects energy-consumption data collected by smart meters. Smart meters collect energy usage data at high frequencies—typically every 5, 15, or 30 minutes—and therefore know exactly how much electricity is being used, and when, in any given household. The court recognized that data from these devices reveals intimate details about what’s going on inside the home that would otherwise be unavailable to the government without a physical search. The court held that residents have a reasonable expectation of privacy in this data and that the government’s access of it constitutes a “search.”
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
The 4 Pillars of Good Writing
To be a good writer you need to think about what your readers want, you need to read more, you need to edit and you have to actually write. So, get started.
Democratic Socialism Doesn't Exist: Like the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot, Democratic Socialism Exists Only in Myth
With the upset primary victory of self-proclaimed “democratic socialist” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over long-time Democrat representative Joe Crowley, democratic socialism is receiving another boost of popularity in certain quarters of the country. Given the increasing popularity of socialism among young voters especially, it’s clear a basic truth (one might even call it an “inconvenient truth”) needs to be explained: so-called democratic socialism is a mythological creature. It is the Loch Ness Monster of political economy.
Millennials' Rosy View of the Welfare State Dwindles Once They're Told What It Costs
When asked if they support socialist policies, millennials generally say yes, but when asked if they're actually willing to pay for it, their enthusiasm drops markedly.
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from Mises Institute
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]Paul Krugman has butchered numbers when writing about fiscal policy in nations such as France, Estonia, Germany, and the United Kingdom. My bottom line is that Paul Krugman is right to praise Denmark. My only gripe is that he likes the one thing that they’re doing wrong and overlooks all the things that make the country a relative success. Moreover, he ignores all the recent efforts to reduce the fiscal burden of government, probably because that would require him to acknowledge that large public sectors are bad for growth.
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from Reuters
International news agency headquartered in London, England
Facebook, Twitter dismantle disinformation campaigns tied to Iran and Russia
Facebook Inc (FB.O), Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) collectively removed hundreds of accounts tied to an alleged Iranian propaganda operation on Tuesday, while Facebook took down a second campaign it said was linked to Russia.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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Facebook Use Connected With Anti-Refugee Violence in Germany
A new study by researchers at the University of Warwick in England found that German towns with higher rates of Facebook use by their residents also had higher incidences of violent attacks against refugees. According to the study, which was published in February, the link between violence against refugees and Facebook use even held true when other factors, including wealth, demographic factors such as age and voting preferences, previous support for far-right ideologies, newspaper sales, refugee populations and hate crime history, were controlled for.
After School Bus Massacre in Yemen, US Media Finally Begins to Pay Attention
A leading US anti-war activist told Radio Sputnik Tuesday she is “so glad” to see the Saudi war in Yemen finally getting mainstream media attention after having been ignored for three years. “Cable networks don’t cover international news” anymore, she lamented, “unless it has to do with Russia.” When a bomb fell on a school bus in the Yemeni city of Dahyan on August 9, killing dozens, including 40 children, and injuring dozens more, it proved to be the straw that broke the camel's back: US mainstream media could no longer refuse to pay attention to the war that has killed 13,000 and threatened millions with cholera and starvation.
50 Years Since Prague Spring: We Shouldn't Equate Russia to USSR – Czech Writer
The 1968 Prague Spring, initiated by the then leader of Czechoslovakia, Alexander Dubcek, was abruptly ended by an intervention of the Warsaw Pact countries. Speaking to Sputnik, Czech writer and eyewitness of the events, Milan Syrucek, recalled how the situation unfolded. Exactly 50 years ago, Soviet tanks entered the Czechoslovak capital bringing the Prague Spring to a halt. Speaking to Sputnik, Milan Syrucek, a famous Czech writer and eyewitness of the 1968 Warsaw Pact intervention says that one should not equate the Russian Federation to the USSR. "The current generation is not responsible for the deeds of its ancestors," Syrucek told Sputnik Czech Republic.
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from Sputnik
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED, Broadcasting & Media Production Company out of Moscow, Russia
A new study by researchers at the University of Warwick in England found that German towns with higher rates of Facebook use by their residents also had higher incidences of violent attacks against refugees. According to the study, which was published in February, the link between violence against refugees and Facebook use even held true when other factors, including wealth, demographic factors such as age and voting preferences, previous support for far-right ideologies, newspaper sales, refugee populations and hate crime history, were controlled for.
A leading US anti-war activist told Radio Sputnik Tuesday she is “so glad” to see the Saudi war in Yemen finally getting mainstream media attention after having been ignored for three years. “Cable networks don’t cover international news” anymore, she lamented, “unless it has to do with Russia.” When a bomb fell on a school bus in the Yemeni city of Dahyan on August 9, killing dozens, including 40 children, and injuring dozens more, it proved to be the straw that broke the camel's back: US mainstream media could no longer refuse to pay attention to the war that has killed 13,000 and threatened millions with cholera and starvation.
The 1968 Prague Spring, initiated by the then leader of Czechoslovakia, Alexander Dubcek, was abruptly ended by an intervention of the Warsaw Pact countries. Speaking to Sputnik, Czech writer and eyewitness of the events, Milan Syrucek, recalled how the situation unfolded. Exactly 50 years ago, Soviet tanks entered the Czechoslovak capital bringing the Prague Spring to a halt. Speaking to Sputnik, Milan Syrucek, a famous Czech writer and eyewitness of the 1968 Warsaw Pact intervention says that one should not equate the Russian Federation to the USSR. "The current generation is not responsible for the deeds of its ancestors," Syrucek told Sputnik Czech Republic.
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