{"id":180311,"date":"2017-05-26T05:29:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/26\/linkage-211\/"},"modified":"2017-05-26T05:29:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T10:29:00","slug":"linkage-211","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/26\/linkage-211\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4528048\/Big-game-hunter-crushed-death-shot-elephant.html?ito=email_share_article-top\">Big game hunter crushed to death by elephant in Zimbabwe<\/a> (<i>Daily Mail<\/i>) He wasn&#8217;t trampled.&nbsp; The elephant was shot, and fell on him. Karma, neh?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@MedicalReport\/ancestry-com-takes-dna-ownership-rights-from-customers-and-their-relatives-dbafeed02b9e\">Ancestry.com takes DNA ownership rights from customers and their relatives<\/a> (<i>Medium<\/i>) There is a saying about the internet, &#8220;If it&#8217;s free, you are the product.&#8221;&nbsp; The DNA test is not free, so I think that the first clause needs to be deleted.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/news\/item\/40664-california-authorities-are-failing-to-track-and-prevent-abuse-of-police-databases\">California Authorities Are Failing to Track and Prevent Abuse of Police Databases<\/a> (<i>Truthout<\/i>) Cops are stalking ex-girlfirends, using the data in custody disputes, etc.&nbsp; Live in obedient fear, citizen.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2017\/05\/sorry-you-cant-protest-security-screening-by-getting-naked-for-the-tsa\/\">Sorry, you can\u2019t protest security screening by getting naked for the TSA<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) This should be obvious.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/consumerist.com\/2017\/05\/23\/google-following-your-offline-credit-card-spending-to-tell-advertisers-if-their-ads-work\/\">Google Following Your Offline Credit Card Spending To Tell Advertisers If Their Ads Work<\/a> (<i>Consumerist<\/i>) They claim that it&#8217;s anonymized, but with 2-5 data points, you can identify an individual.&nbsp; We need regulation and vigorous antitrust enforcement. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>John Oliver on how Trump is giving journalists whiplash, confusing Fox pundits, and exhausting the rest of us:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"496\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FVFdsl29s_Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big game hunter crushed to death by elephant in Zimbabwe (Daily Mail) He wasn&#8217;t trampled.&nbsp; The elephant was shot, and fell on him. Karma, neh? Ancestry.com takes DNA ownership rights from customers and their relatives (Medium) There is a saying about the internet, &#8220;If it&#8217;s free, you are the product.&#8221;&nbsp; The DNA test is not &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[376],"class_list":["post-180311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}