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Marijuana Arrests Spike, Outpace Arrests For All Violent Crimes Combined
For the second year in a row, arrests for cannabis in the United States have gone up, also dwarfing the number of arrests for violent crime. The increases have come in the form of arrests for possession, not manufacture and sales. According to the FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Report, out of 1,632,921 arrests for “drug abuse Read More…
US Iran Policy Exposed Again, Nikki Haley Lies, Apple Begins ‘Trust Score’ & Social Media Regulation Begins
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Trump To Investigate Google, Facebook Under New Executive Order: Bloomberg
According to a an early draft of an Executive Order (EO), the White House will instruct federal law enforcement and antitrust agencies to launch investigations into the business practices of Facebook, Google and other social media companies, according to Bloomberg which says it has seen the draft. While not specifically calling out companies by name, the document orders US Read More…
Apple Begins Tracking Your Calls And Emails To Assign You A ‘Trust Score’
Apple has rolled out a new policy to analyze your data and determine a “trust score” based on what it finds, Venture Beat reported this week. In an update to its privacy policy issued last week, the company warned users it would be tracking emails and calls in order to prevent fraud. “To help identify and prevent fraud, information about Read More…
Trump’s New Cyber Strategy Seeks Global Dominion Over Internet
Setting the global standard for online behavior, preserving American dominance, political and economic interests, punishing ‘malicious actors’ like Russia and China: these are the ambitious goals of the new US cyber-strategy. The White House published the 40-page document on Thursday afternoon, the first comprehensive cyber strategy in 15 years. The strategy’s core assumption is that the US Read More…






