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Facebook Moves 1.5 Billion Users' Data Out Of Europe To Circumvent New Privacy Law
After Zuck suggested (but stopping short of promising) during testimony before Congress last week that he would treat all Facebook users' data as if it fell under the European Union's new General Data Protection Regulation, Reuters and the Guardian are reporting that Facebook has quietly moved the data of more than 1.5 billion users out of reach of European privacy law by transferring it from the company's European headquarters in Ireland to its global headquarters in California.

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Nova Scotia Arrests Teen Who Discovered Massive Government Data Breach
The teen, whose name has been withheld prior to arraignment, was unsatisfied with an answer he received after filling a Freedom of Information request related to a provincial teachers' dispute. He noticed, however, that the URL for the response ended in a long string of digits - and that by simply changing the number (adding or subtracting from it), he had access to other documents provided through similar FoI requests.

"I decided these are all transparency documents that the government is displaying. I decided to download all of them just to save," the teen told CBC News. "I didn't do anything to try to hide myself. I didn't think any of this would be wrong if it's all public information. Since it was public, I thought it was free to just download, to save," he added.

In response, he wrote a one-line program which grabbed approximately 7,000 public records in order to check them out - which led to the police raid in which authorities seized all the family's electronics - including the phone and computer his father uses for income.

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Facebook Moves 1.5 Billion Users' Data Out Of Europe To Circumvent New Privacy Law
After Zuck suggested (but stopping short of promising) during testimony before Congress last week that he would treat all Facebook users' data as if it fell under the European Union's new General Data Protection Regulation, Reuters and the Guardian are reporting that Facebook has quietly moved the data of more than 1.5 billion users out of reach of European privacy law by transferring it from the company's European headquarters in Ireland to its global headquarters in California.

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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-20/facebook-moves-15-billion-us
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Nova Scotia Arrests Teen Who Discovered Massive Government Data Breach
The teen, whose name has been withheld prior to arraignment, was unsatisfied with an answer he received after filling a Freedom of Information request related to a provincial teachers' dispute. He noticed, however, that the URL for the response ended in a long string of digits - and that by simply changing the number (adding or subtracting from it), he had access to other documents provided through similar FoI requests.

"I decided these are all transparency documents that the government is displaying. I decided to download all of them just to save," the teen told CBC News. "I didn't do anything to try to hide myself. I didn't think any of this would be wrong if it's all public information. Since it was public, I thought it was free to just download, to save," he added.

In response, he wrote a one-line program which grabbed approximately 7,000 public records in order to check them out - which led to the police raid in which authorities seized all the family's electronics - including the phone and computer his father uses for income.

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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-20/nova-scotia-arrests-teen-who
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Are you showing 2 sides of the blade? One example of Government underreach, ineffectiveness, toothlessness, and one example of government overreach, abuse?

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
It's funny when reality starts reading like a thread topic by Pirate News.


None of this is new. This is the shit I was "paranoid" about back as far as the early 2000's. But try explaining this stuff to the plebes that were just learning how to turn a computer on and off.

The only real difference today is that I don't really give a shit about it anymore. It's not that I take the stance that "if you're not doing anything wrong than you have nothing to worry about". It's that they've got 7 billion people to monitor and I'm just not that interesting.

One day I woke up and realized that I'm not the bright shining center of the universe.

And it was liberating.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
It's funny when reality starts reading like a thread topic by Pirate News.


None of this is new. This is the shit I was "paranoid" about back as far as the early 2000's. But try explaining this stuff to the plebes that were just learning how to turn a computer on and off.

The only real difference today is that I don't really give a shit about it anymore. It's not that I take the stance that "if you're not doing anything wrong than you have nothing to worry about". It's that they've got 7 billion people to monitor and I'm just not that interesting.

One day I woke up and realized that I'm not the bright shining center of the universe.

And it was liberating.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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It's too bad you weren't on the internet in the early 90's, right after algore invented it. That was real Freedom of information, before Billy & The Libs corralled it.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
It's funny when reality starts reading like a thread topic by Pirate News.


None of this is new. This is the shit I was "paranoid" about back as far as the early 2000's. But try explaining this stuff to the plebes that were just learning how to turn a computer on and off.

The only real difference today is that I don't really give a shit about it anymore. It's not that I take the stance that "if you're not doing anything wrong than you have nothing to worry about". It's that they've got 7 billion people to monitor and I'm just not that interesting.

One day I woke up and realized that I'm not the bright shining center of the universe.

And it was liberating.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
But if, for some reason, the government does get an interest in you - and it doesn't need to be official, as Snowden revealed all you need to do is look like a new love interest that a jealous NSA-ex might snoop on - and the government has plenty of disparate bits of information they could weave into a story.

And it's not just the government. Due to severe in-built security issues, you, along with hundreds of millions of others, can be (and probably have been) mass-hacked in one gulp. Nobody needs to be interested in - and focused on - you, specifically and individually for you to be victimized.

And then, there's the loss of privacy to BUSINESS. Don't you think you deserve to be free of its snooping?

Just because you're not important doesn't mean you're not targeted.

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Well - we agree on one thing - we both don't like any of the surveillance, hacking, and snooping!

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