Wednesday, June 03, 2020

Much Ado Over Google: Multiple Claims Over Online Invasion of Privacy

JUNE 2, 2020 / 3:11 PM / UPDATED 10 HOURS AGO

The lawsuit seeks at least $5 billion, accusing the Alphabet Inc unit of surreptitiously collecting information about what people view online and where they browse, despite their using what Google calls Incognito mode.

According to the complaint filed in the federal court in San Jose, California, Google gathers data through Google Analytics, Google Ad Manager and other applications and website plug-ins, including smartphone apps, regardless of whether users click on Google-supported ads.

This helps Google learn about users’ friends, hobbies, favorite foods, shopping habits, and even the “most intimate and potentially embarrassing things” they search for online, the complaint said.

Google “cannot continue to engage in the covert and unauthorized data collection from virtually every American with a computer or phone,” the complaint said.

Google faces $5 billion lawsuit in U.S. for tracking 'private' internet use

Source: REUTERS

Jonathan Stempel

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(Reuters) - Google was sued on Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing the internet search company of illegally invading the privacy of millions of users by pervasively tracking their internet use through browsers set in “private” mode.

SUSPICIOUS OBSERVERS: The Last Disaster, Galactic Center Discoveries, Sky Spray > Earth,Sun & Space Scoence

Daily 03 June 2020 and they do it all again tomorrow

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200 Years After German Philosopher Hegel: Brains Connected To Digital Machines

The Radical Revolution

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An excerpt from a lecture given by Slavoj Zizek at the University of Winnipeg on 18 April 2019 titled "Thinking the Human". 

In this clip, Zizek discusses Elon Musk's work on "Neuralink", an implantable brain–machine interface. Zizek also draws on Marx, Hegel and the film 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' to further critique other tendencies in post-humanism.

Slavoj Zizek — 

Elon Musk, Neuralink & Post-Humanism

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•May 31, 2020

Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38alQ...

Fabric: How An Artist Uses A 3-Dimesional Medium

"For Christo, the process of negotiating his way to an eventual win—no matter how long it took or how many times he was initially rejected—became its own affirmation of artistic freedom. And the same process of bureaucratic delay changed the context of the works in ways he found irresistible . . ."

Christo Found Beauty in Realizing the Impossible

The conceptual artist, who died yesterday at 84, made constructing quixotic, monumental projects his life’s work.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude looking for a possible site for The Mastaba for the United Arab Emirates in February 1982 — Christo and Jeanne-Claude looking for a possible site for *The Mastaba* for the United Arab Emirates in February 1982WOLFGANG VOLZ

It takes a truly unique eye to see beauty in bureaucracy, to look at a snarl of planning regulations and NIMBYism and red tape and to convert it, through sheer imaginative alchemy, into art itself. And yet that quality is exactly what defined the work of Christo, who died on Sunday at the age of 84, and his partner, Jeanne-Claude, over the course of a 60-year career. . .

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