NYT NSA Social Network Data Americans Surveillance - Mike Isaac - Social. The hottest, stealthiest social network won’t be found in any Silicon Valley incubator. It’s up and running. And you may already be a member. In an effort spanning the past three years, the United States National Security Agency has mined its massive stores of collected citizen metadata to create a series of social graphs, according to documents and confidential sources unearthed by the New York Times, mapping the large, interconnected web of connections between people. The graphs — which the Times claims details specifics as granular as citizens’ locations at certain times, personal connections with others, and traveling companions — were created piecemeal from vast public data stores, including (but not limited to) Facebook profiles, voter registration records, tax data and property records. The NSA acknowledged the program in a statement to the Times, but declined to state the number of Americans involved.
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Many spray sunscreens include alcohol or other flammable ingredients. In these cases, the people had used Banana Boat sunscreen sprays. A spokeswoman for Energizer Holdings told Shots via email that the company has redesigned the spray valve: Science & Environment - What will be the next global transformers? Oil, electricity and the internet have profoundly altered our planet, but what will come next?
Gaia Vince wants your help in predicting them. Look ahead five years... ten years... fifty years, perhaps. You will be different. Older. When we try to imagine the future, we tend to look to the past for clues and extrapolate forwards. Will we continue on this trajectory? We’ve experienced similar moments before. With the benefit of hindsight, it is easy to pinpoint global transformers that shifted the trajectory of this human planet, for example by spurring globalisation or city building, or by increasing the human population.
In August 1859, Edwin Drake, a railroad conductor-turned oil prospector, drilled into ground near Titusville, Pennsylvania, and struck black gold. Crude oil dramatically changed the way we manufacture things, transport them and generate energy. Giant leaps for mankind Taxes and death notwithstanding, nothing is certain about the future. Huffington Post Canada - Canadian News Stories, Breaking News, Opinion. Pew Internet. "18% of online adults have had important personal information stolen such as their Social Security Number, credit card, or bank account information. That’s an increase from the 11% who reported personal information theft in July 2013. 21% of online adults said they had an email or social networking account compromised or taken over without their permission.The same number reported this experience in a July 2013 survey.
" — More online Americans say they’ve experienced a personal data breach | Pew Research Center (via onaissues) (via pewresearch) Business News & Strategy For Entrepreneurs | Entrepreneur.com. Small Business Ideas and Resources for Entrepreneurs. Predictable Success. Smashing Magazine — For Professional Web Designers and Developers. Why is Obama really meeting with Republicans? Does President Obama’s newly packed social calendar mean the fever of partisan bickering in Washington is breaking? That’s the question today after President Obama sat down for dinner with a dozen Republican senators last night and even picked up the tab himself. But don’t hold your breath. Yes, Obama is engaging in a charm offensive, lunching with House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan. Next Thursday, he’ll join the entire GOP Senate caucus at their weekly luncheon.
But will this gastronomical diplomacy actually lead to a deal to turn off sequestration, or maybe even the elusive “grand bargain” that Obama has been lusting after for almost two years? Sen. “The big deal” that Obama wants would be some version of the “grand bargain” that Obama and House Speaker John Boehner almost struck in the summer of 2011: some tax increases, some closing of tax loopholes and lowering of tax rates, along with huge cuts to spending, especially on social safety net programs.
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Some of these activities are merely policing headaches. But others pose major security challenges to governments around the world. These various illegal activities are often lumped together and categorized as global or transnational organized crime. According to a 2011 White House report, such crime has “dire implications for public safety, public health, democratic institutions, and economic stability.” That sentiment is shared by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, which in 2010 declared that “organized crime has globalized and turned into one of the world’s foremost economic and armed powers.”
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