The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.
Here's an excerpt:
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,500 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it would take about 42 trips to carry that many people.
Over the years, I have become increasingly concerned with the privacy issue of what Google actually does with all of the information it surely has collected on and about me (though I cannot think of anything I wouldn’t want my mother to see–a very high standard in my case). Of course, my level of concern skyrocketed with the Edward Snowden revelation of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) use of private, personal data for the purpose of “spying” (for lack of a better term) on American citizens, and the Julian Assange fiasco, called WikiLeaks.
Google–What does the information giant do with your on-line transactions?
Privacy is an important right to throw away in order to see pictures of funny cats.
According to the article linked below, there may be a faint light at the end of the Informationin Age tunnel. Of course, the article does not profess to, nor does it offer a panacea for addressing all of the many privacy issues associated with the collection and use of metadata.
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Still, I was excited to read that there was at least some measure of relief from a huge sector of the information-gathering superpower, Google. The article lists a number of steps which will allow an Internet consumer who uses one of the many Google social media “tools” to remove his/her private information from the all-consuming Google machine.
Information “Spying”
http://www.guidingtech.com/36493/delete-personal-data-google/
Legalese–Most users of social media do not read the terms and conditions paragraph on a social media site, but simply click the “I accept” box, without seeing the privacy rights they are relinquishing.
If you have any personal accounts of how your data has been improperly appropriated and used against you (or used to your detriment) during your use of social media, or if you know of other means from removing your metadata from other information-hoarding entities, please post them in the comment section.
Sometimes, I wonder if America hasn’t fallen down the rabbit hole. I’m expecting to see the Mad Hatter any day now.
Lauri Parks appears to have more zeros in her complaint against the city of Grand Rapids than arguments. Lauri is suing the Michigan city for $1 billion after she was fired as city clerk. She alleges racial discrimination despite that fact that the city went to the unprecedented step of hiring a “personal coach” to help her improve her performance and then offered to move her to an $80,000 position. When she refused, she was fired and sued the city for racial discrimination. It is a more difficult claim to make given the fact that her replacement, Darlene O’Neal, is African American.
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Four Houston residents pleaded guilty Friday for harboring illegal immigrants in a sex trafficking ring, according to the U.S. attorney.
Those arrested on Oct.
Source: www.chron.com
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Angelina Jolie is not the only woman who got trashed by Sony, according to a new account of alleged harassment and racism.
Source: www.nydailynews.com
Yeah, we’re living in a post-racial society. Right.
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Europol informed that a broad police operation took place in the state of Carinthia on December 11: Austrian law enforcement authorities, with the support of Europol and Romanian authorities, ran an operation on 11 December to identify victims of …
Source: horizon.hozint.com
There simply isn’t being enough done (in terms of financial resources and manpowe) to address this growing, tragic problem.
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In a living room sat three sets of parents with daughters who play basketball together at Allen High School, two for the JV team and the other with
Source: www.wfaa.com
This certainly comes as no surprise to me. No doubt, the coach will follow the attorney’s script that there “was no racial harassment, just parents upset by playing time”–a common tactic.
Joint Statement of the Third U.S.-Kazakhstan Strategic Partnership Dialogue
Source: www.state.gov
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20th Century Fox will open an office in Kazakhstan, the third biggest market in the former Soviet Union after Russia and Ukraine.
Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
More good news for Kazakhstan. It just keeps on coming!
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Kazakhstan urges these negotiators to keep working “in constructive way to attain a comprehensive accord in 2015”
Source: itar-tass.com
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