#Surveillance

Limiting WeChat will have major effects on the Chinese diaspora in the US, but Tencent has long been accused of censoring and surveilling overseas users, essentially extending the Great Firewall
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Great post by @Sherman1890 got me thinking about the future of targeted ads.More and more tools (privacy labels, ad blockers, GDPR) enable consumers to opt-out from targeted ads - can
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I’m so tired of this stupid“what ~true~ Cyberpunk is about discourse”, because Cyberpunk is about NOTHING. It’s a goddamn genre. No genre has an inherent message, unless you think all
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It's death day.And it's bad news.I didn't do death day the last two weeks because Thanksgiving interrupted reporting. Now that states have caught up, it's clear that deaths are trending
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1. I've written elsewhere about three different roles for COVID testing: https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1274576193333850112But whether you are testing for individual health, surveillance, or mitigation, speed is of the essence.
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The disconnect between what Trump allies are saying on television/Twitter and what the Trump legal team is alleging in its court filings is really striking. Accusations of widespread fraud hyped
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Now ready for #smartdatasprint keynote by José van Dijck @jvdijck on "A European perspective on Platformisation".#digitalmedia Discussing the dominant platform ecosystems; the Chinese & the American one. They operate differen
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1) I guess you can’t push a vaccine on something that already has one, nor control the test, and in turn the hysteria. Early on, I stated that these used
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To the degree I’ve distilled any of this stream of consciousness it’s only due to how much I’ve learned from and been in dialogue w/ incredible scholars/activists/babymommas/artists etc so am
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#Mycology thread on our new Microbial Genomics paper on WGS of clinical & environmental #Mucorales after #mucormycosis cluster in #transplant pts. 72 isolates from 72 isolates from med center &
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New SARS_CoV_2 virus strain update. TL;DR - there is something to understand more, and it looks like the virus has tweaked its biology at least on transmissibility; Public health, scientists
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1. What happens if Congress repeals Section 230? It's a big question and no one knows the answer. Here's my guess. Section 230 lets firms avoid dealing with harm they
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This major new report exposing #XiJinping's #CCP #China human rights crisis is endorsed by two former UK Foreign Secretaries, two former Conservative Party leaders, the last Governor of #HongKong &
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A new variant of the pandemic SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is spreading rapidly in Britain and prompting high levels of concern among its European neighbors. The strain is said to be up
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People who compare our unity after 9/11 to our division today are correct. America was shockingly unified after 9/11. That unity was turned by our leaders into war, surveillance, deportations,
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Viruses don’t evolve to get around masks, distancing, or disruption of the virus particle by detergents or disinfectants. Mutation doesn’t defy the laws of physics. B.1.1.7 is transmitted the same
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