“They clearly have no idea, literally no idea, of who it is that they’re killing,” Chris Anders, the senior legislative council at the American Civil Liberties Union, told The Daily Beast. “And there are thousands of people who have been killed through the drone program.”
At the same time as David Petraeus got off with probation and a fine, the Justice Department has been pushing for extreme jail time for other leakers who talk to journalists—often over leaks of far less sensitive material.
Les organisations terroristes, notamment, ont malheureusement bien compris l’enjeu de la communication et l’instrument efficace de propagande, d’endoctrinement et d’enrôlement que pouvait constituer cet espace numérique sans frontières.
When it comes to influence, Google has now reached a point where comparing it to other major corporations hardly seems fair. On a grand scale, Google doesn’t even merit mention in conversations about traditional companies. If anything, the latest news about its lobbying efforts reinforces the idea that when we talk about Google, we might as well be talking about Google as a country of its own.
San Francisco's degree of income inequality has also increased, to levels roughly on par with Madagascar. Of the 150 largest regions in the US, the Bay Area ranked 45th for income inequality in 1979. Now we've jumped to No. 14. Across the US, income inequality has risen steadily since 1979, but in about 1999, the Bay Area's rate of increase surpassed the nation's average.
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* Google employees donated $1.6 million to President Barack Obama's two White House bids * The company told Daily Mail Online that it has spoken with the Federal Trade Commission about antitrust concerns; it was investigated in 2011 but later let off the hook * In the 2012 election, the company’s search algorithm customized results for Obama but not for Republican Mitt Romney * Google execs who have left to work in the White House include Obama's chief technology officer * Hillary Clinton also poached her new tech chief from Google this week
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter is making a big play for Silicon Valley startups and tech innovators that so far have shown little to no interest in working with the Pentagon. To show its seriousness about engaging Silicon Valley, the Defense Department will stand up a permanent office there called “defense innovation unit experimental” — the first time the Pentagon will have a full-time outreach presence in the Valley. It will be staffed by civilian and military officials, including reservists with private-sector experience. Carter also is proposing a pilot program to invest in startup ventures under the CIA’s existing In-Q-Tel technology incubator. According to a senior defense official, the Pentagon will make “small investments” in promising technologies in areas like electronics, software and automation.