-11-2019 when it comes to the safety and security of its users Facebook has
found itself again and again unable to protect them from harm. When it comes to
itself the company has invested heavily in ensuring it does not suffer similar
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Since 2016 Facebook has been paying users ages 13 to 35 up to $20 per month
plus referral fees to sell their privacy by installing the iOS or Android “Facebook
Research” app. Facebook even asked users to screenshot their Amazon order
history page….
Facebook’s Research program will continue to run on Android. [Update 2/21/19:
It will also cease to recruit users for the Android version of its Research app,
though it plans other paid research initiatives. https://techcrunch.com
2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/
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If people really knew what we had on them, the Google engineer said, they would flip out. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/magazine/facebook-google-privacy-data.html
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7-16-18 Last week The Information detailed Huawei’s efforts to build a suite of AI products for everything from telecoms base stations and cloud data centers to smartphones and surveillance cameras. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/facebook-nabs-google-chip-exec-to-lead-silicon-initiative/
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12-8-2017 Two decades ago the US intelligence community worked closely with Silicon Valley in an effort to track citizens in cyberspace. And Google is at the heart of that origin story….The intelligence community hoped that the nation’s leading computer scientists could take non-classified information and user data, combine it with what would become known as the internet, and begin to create for-profit, commercial enterprises to suit the needs of both the intelligence community and the public. They hoped to direct the supercomputing revolution from the start in order to make sense of what millions of human beings did inside this digital information network. That collaboration has made a comprehensive public-private mass surveillance state possible today….
The intelligence community funded these computer scientists through an unclassified, highly compartmentalized program that was managed for the CIA and the NSA by large military and intelligence contractors. It was called the Massive Digital Data Systems (MDDS) project….
This type of public-to-private innovation system helped launch powerful science and technology companies like Qualcomm, Symantec, Netscape and others and funded the pivotal research in areas like Doppler radar and fiber optics, which are central to large companies like AccuWeather, Verizon and AT&T today. Today the NSF provides nearly 90% of all federal funding for university-based computer-science research….The intelligence community however saw a slightly different benefit in their research: could the network be organized so efficiently that individual users could be uniquely identified and tracked?…
NSF likewise only references the digital libraries grant, not the MDDS grant as well, in its own history of Google’s origin. …When national security agencies need to identify and track people and groups they know where to turn – and do so frequently. That was the goal in the beginning. It has succeeded perhaps more than anyone could have imagined at the time. https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance/..........................……………………………………………………..
11-3-1993 The workshop will be held on the 1st and 2nd of February 1994 in Reston, Virginia. The objective of the workshop is to make industry and academia aware of intelligence community needs, stimulate discussion of the technical issues and possible solutions and identify potential research efforts that warrant further investigation for possible government funding. The amount of funding estimated for investments is three to five million dollars per year over the next 2-3 years.
Last July a one-day, classified, government-only workshop was held to
characterize the magnitude of the problem and identify the major challenges. https://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1995/11/msg01674.html................................…………………………….....
8-13-19 Griffin indicated that when it comes to the 5G network, everything is simultaneously a threat risk and a promise of something better. https://defensesystems.com/articles/2019/08/13/pentagon-5g-shop-williams.aspx
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