Google’s FTC-Mandated Privacy Assessments
{Exclusive} Previously unseen documents about Google’s privacy practices, as required by a Federal Trade Commission order.
Category: FTC
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New: Trump’s new intel chief Ric Grenell, widely known as a Trump loyalist, called Trump “dangerous” and spoke out regularly in favor of John Kasich in 2016, according to deleted tweets we reviewed. He also called Trump “reckless” and “unserious.” https://t.co/ewUSXZqLuZ
Class read docs about COINTELPRO, state surveillance/ infiltration of activists today. FBI docs are fixated on communism but class favorite is this memo noting Bayard Rustin is an “admitted homosexual.” Student goes, “Did the FBI mean for secret gay communists to sound so cool?”
1/ I can’t believe it! For the last 1,110 days—ever since #USDA purged Animal Welfare Act records from its website—I have been fighting to restore that information, through litigation, legislations, regulatory efforts, and public awareness. Today much of the info was restored.
The top story on @Newsday’s Wednesday front page: Grumman, the Bethpage aerospace giant, knew as far back as the mid-1970s that its toxic chemicals were contaminating area groundwater, but it kept critical information secret. https://t.co/LykcXVrTq2
“Uhlar has spoken publicly about her regret before but says her belief that the gangster was wrongly convicted on murder charges was reinforced after reading a new book by Brown professor Stephen Kinzer, ‘Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control.’” https://t.co/H7MzqC5r5S
