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Check Your Underwear: Government Surveillance Project To Record 'Your Every Move'
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - 10:47am | 648The U.S. government is investing millions in wearable technology designed to track your every move. Try This On For Size: The federal government has invested at least $22 million into developing smart clothing that can spy on people and locations. The smart clothing products are part of a program...
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'Nobody Knows': The Mystery Of Where Your Personal Facebook Data Goes
Thursday, September 8, 2022 - 3:32pm | 498Earlier this year in March, two senior Facebook engineers who have a combined 20 years of experience between them found themselves perplexed when asked about the company’s mishandeling of private user information stemming from the ongoing Cambridge Analytica lawsuit, according to a new report...
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Rhode Island Coalition Struggles To Create One Of The Most Progressive Equity-Focused Cannabis Programs In The Country
Monday, June 7, 2021 - 12:02pm | 808As federal cannabis legalization appears to be inevitable, two questions are often asked – when and how? The latter referring to how legal cannabis will be regulated. While more and more states vote or legislatively choose to legalize medical or adult-use cannabis, ...
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Oracle Loses Legal Appeal Over $10B Government Cloud Contract
Friday, July 12, 2019 - 12:12pm | 374Tech giant Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) was eliminated from a contract with the U.S. government in April and has lost a legal challenge it mounted over the decision, Bloomberg reported Friday. The Pentagon eliminated Oracle from a four-way bidding process with a $10-billion cloud contract...
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Why The Chinese Market Is Attractive To Google
Thursday, December 13, 2018 - 6:02pm | 736Google parent Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL)(NASDAQ: GOOGL)'s CEO Sundar Pichai vehemently denied any imminent plans to re-enter China in his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee this week. Veiled Ambitions The company did embark on a project codenamed "Dragonfly,...
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Pentagon Papers Revisited: Sessions' Threat To Media Illustrates Divide Between Ideals And Discretion
Saturday, August 12, 2017 - 2:54pm | 871The story is as old as journalism: the tension between a public servant’s urge to do the right thing while breaking the law, spilling secrets in the process and paying a price when it gets published. Reality Winner, a private defense contractor with security clearance, sits in jail today...
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Reality Winner: The Woman Who Leaked Secrets Of Russian Election Tampering
Tuesday, June 6, 2017 - 9:24am | 734Reality Winner - the 25-year-old defense contractor with the amazing name who got busted for spilling National Security Agency secrets to a news outlet - is an overnight sensation. In a sign that truth can be much stranger than fiction, the info she allegedly leaked to an online newsletter called...
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Should The Alcohol Industry Be Worried About The Legalizing Of Pot?
Wednesday, September 14, 2016 - 3:40pm | 422Boston Beer Co Inc (NYSE: SAM), the parent company behind Sam Adams and other craft brands, cautioned investors in a 10k filing that the legalization of marijuana could "adversely impact the demand for the Company's products." Brown-Forman Corporation (NYSE: BF-B) (NYSE: BF-A), the parent company...