Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Cut Off Geopedia For Selling Tacking Software To Police

Oh yes kiddies, Big Brother is definitely watching you.

Twitter, Facebook and Instagram cut off police tool used to spy on you

Twitter has revoked the rights of Geofeedia after the firm discovered law enforcement was paying big bucks to track users.

By Charlie Osborne for Zero Day

Twitter has revoked Geofeedia's commercial access to Twitter data following reports that the information was being used for police surveillance purposes.

Last month, the Daily Dot reported that the US Denver Police Department paid at least $30,000 to the startup in exchange for software which intercepts, aggregates and stores online posts across social networks including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

With Geofeedia's location-based search capabilities, law enforcement can conduct what is called "geo-fencing" -- capturing media posted by anyone in a specific area including social media posts, commentary, videos, and images.

The social media giant's decision was revealed in a tweet sent on Tuesday:

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According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Geofeedia had access to at least the Instagram API, which is a stream of public posts, Facebook's Topic Feed API -- a tool intended for media and marketing -- and Twitter's database of public tweets through a subsidiary agreement.

However, as these tools -- perhaps among others -- were used as Geofeedia acting as a developer, scraping user data for sale elsewhere is not permitted by terms of service agreements.

While social media companies are able to monetize their platforms by offering marketers and analysis firms access to data and details about uploaded content such as the location, age and sex of users alongside trends, popular themes and phrases, in Twitter's case, third-parties are not permitted to use this information to create tools for spying purposes.

Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter have now revoked such access and abuse of public data, which could be used to compile a digital portrait of individuals for surveillance purposes.

While social media hosts whatever we are happy to say in public, the idea of potentially having a police officer watching and analyzing all the content you dare to post online is not a happy one -- and tools which aggregate this data for law enforcement may lead us down a slippery slope when it comes to future privacy, public rights and surveillance.

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In a statement to the Chicago Tribune, Geofeedia CEO Phil Harris insisted that the startup is "committed to the principals of personal privacy" and does "everything in our power to support the security of the American people and the protection of personal freedoms."

Geofeedia may insist such, but after ACLU discovered the company was marketing itself as a way for law enforcement to monitor large events including protests, you have to wonder just how much of a priority the protection of personal freedom is -- especially when a profit can be made.

This guy should be running for office the way he lies.
Just one more reason to stay away from social media folks.

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Trump Unleashed

I have to give the guy props for knowing how to speak bluntly, it's a refreshing change from the mealy mouth political speak we are subjected to on a daily basis.
Another thing he is doing is scaring the shit out of the Republican party by taking the back stabbing bastards out to the woodshed one by one . It is my fervent hope that no matter if he wins or not that he eviscerates the current iteration of this Republican party and leaves a trail of body parts behind him along the way.
Via CNN;

Donald Trump: 'The shackles have been taken off me'

Washington (CNN)Donald Trump is launching a kamikaze mission -- fracturing his own party four weeks before Election Day.

The GOP nominee is lashing out in a stream of tweets boiling with rage and resentment, slamming House Speaker Paul Ryan for effectively cutting him loose and accusing the party leadership of dooming his campaign. It's a meltdown unprecedented by a presidential nominee this late in the year.

"It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America the way I want to," Trump said in a tweet that raised the prospect of a full on civil war in the Republican Party. Such a battle would pit his loyal supporters against the rest of the GOP, including vulnerable lawmakers running for re-election that could threaten the party's hold on Congress.

Trump's outbursts come with his national polls tanking and his route to the 270 electoral votes he needs to win the White House closing fast.

Trump also called Ryan, the Wisconsin Republican, "very weak" and "ineffective" -- an attack that comes the day after after Ryan told House colleagues he'd no longer defend or campaign for the GOP presidential nominee.

"Our very weak and ineffective leader, Paul Ryan, had a bad conference call where his members went wild at his disloyalty," Trump tweeted.

"Despite winning the second debate in a landslide (every poll), it is hard to do well when Paul Ryan and others give zero support," he also tweeted.

Trump also criticized GOP Arizona Sen. John McCain who rescinded his endorsement of the Republican presidential nominee over the weekend.

"The very foul mouthed Sen. John McCain begged for my support during his primary (I gave, he won), then dropped me over locker room remarks!" Trump tweeted.

Trump said Republicans who are "disloyal" are "far more difficult" than Clinton.

"Disloyal R's are far more difficult than Crooked Hillary. They come at you from all sides. They don't know how to win - I will teach them," he tweeted.

Trump's move to go rogue and incite anarchy in the party leaves Republican leaders in a tough position. His behavior risks alienating moderate and swing voters vital to maintain GOP control of the Senate. But repudiating Trump entirely would risk a backlash by the record breaking millions of voters who flocked to the Republican nominee in the primary process.

Calling out McCain is an especially sweet moment for me personally.

Monday, October 10, 2016

Paul Ryan Is A Fucking Twat, But You Already Knew That.

Damn, this is actually kind of hard to believe on some levels but after watching these Republicans turn into Closet Socialist supporters over the years I don't know why.

Speaker Ryan won't defend Trump, shifting focus to saving GOP majority

WASHINGTON — The nation's most powerful Republican told his party Monday he now is focusing on ensuring Hillary Clinton doesn't get a blank check as president with a Democratic-controlled Congress, suggesting he doesn't believe Donald Trump can win the election.

House Speaker Paul Ryan's office quickly said he was not conceding the election's outcome. But pro-Trump GOP House members got that impression, pushing back and saying Trump can still prevail and should not be abandoned. One outspoken conservative called Ryan and other Republican leaders "cowards."

A person who was on Ryan's conference call with GOP lawmakers said the speaker declared that he will "spend his entire energy making sure that Hillary Clinton does not get a blank check with a Democrat-controlled Congress." The person wasn't authorized to be quoted by name and demanded anonymity.

Ryan said he wouldn't defend Trump or appear with the Republican presidential candidate for the rest of the campaign, according to lawmakers and Republican congressional staff, who also spoke on condition of anonymity.

The remarkable development came as Trump battled to rescue his campaign after the release last week of a 2005 video in which he is heard bragging about how his fame allowed him to "do anything" to women. Several leading Republicans have withdrawn their support or even called for him to drop out of the race.

Several people on the call said Ryan explicitly told House members, "You all need to do what's best for you in your district."

Ryan said he was "willing to endure political pressure to help protect our majority," a person on the call said.

So that they can keep right on doing what they have been doing to this country for the last twenty years.

Sunday, October 9, 2016

Trump threatens Hillary with jail if he wins

Awesome!

A Great Demonstration Of The Effects Of Weight Distribution When Towing A Trailer

If you have ever been towing a trailer and had the damn thing start whipping back and forth on you, this is why.

Some people have to learn the hard way. Don't be that guy.

Saturday, October 8, 2016

The Heat Is Going To Be Intense

The butturt over Trump talking shit about women when he thought he was having a private conversation eleven fucking years ago has caused me no end of mirth.
Fucking people all twisted into politically correct knots everywhere.

Let me tell you something.

If you are a guy and you can honestly tell me that you have NEVER, EVER, talked shit about women like that with other guys then these are for you.

Take this out of your wallet and throw it in one immediately.

Now hike up your skirt and get your Nancy ass the fuck away from me.

Bustednuckles