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Chief of Staff for Speaker Johnson Arrested for DUI After Trump’s Presidential Address
The chief of staff for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was reportedly arrested on a drunk driving charge after President Donald Trump delivered his presidential address to a joint session of Congress, Breitbart News has learned.
Hayden Haynes, who serves as Johnson’s chief of staff was arrested for drunk driving “after his car struck a Capitol vehicle” around 11:40 p.m., two law enforcement officials and Johnson’s office confirmed.
According to a police report, Haynes was released and given a “citation to appear in court,” one of the sources told the outlet. Haynes is described as being “trusted” and has served as Johnson’s chief of staff since Johnson was voted in as Speaker of House in October 2023 in a 220-209 vote.
“A driver backed into a parked vehicle last night around 11:40 p.m.,” United States Capitol Police confirmed in a statement to Breitbart News. “We responded and arrested them for DUI.”
https://www.stationgossip.com/2025/03/chief-of-staff-for-speaker-johnson.html
How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app
No warning, no opt-out, and critic claims … no consent
Research from a leading academic shows Android users have advertising cookies and other gizmos working to build profiles on them even before they open their first app.
Doug Leith, professor and chair of computer systems at Trinity College Dublin, who carried out the research, claims in his write up that no consent is sought for the various identifiers and there is no way of opting out from having them run.
He found various mechanisms operating on the Android system which were then relaying the data back to Google via pre-installed apps such as Google Play Services and the Google Play store, all without users ever opening a Google app.
One of these is the "DSID" cookie, which Google explains in its documentation is used to identify a "signed in user on non-Google websites so that the user's preference for personalized advertising is respected accordingly." The "DSID" cookie lasts for two weeks.
Speaking about Google's description in its documentation, Leith's research states the explanation was still "rather vague and not as helpful as it might be," and the main issue is that there's no consent sought from Google before dropping the cookie and there's no opt-out feature either.
Leith says the DSID advertising cookie is created shortly after the user logs into their Google account – part of the Android startup process – with a tracking file linked to that account placed into the Google Play Service's app data folder.
This DSID cookie is "almost certainly" the primary method Google uses to link analytics and advertising events, such as ad clicks, to individual users, Leith writes in his paper [PDF].
Another tracker which cannot be removed once created is the Google Android ID, a device identifier that's linked to a user's Google account and created after the first connection made to the device by Google Play Services.
It continues to send data about the device back to Google even after the user logs out of their Google account and the only way to remove it, and its data, is to factory-reset the device.
Leith said he wasn't able to ascertain the purpose of the identifier but his paper notes a code comment, presumably made by a Google dev, acknowledging that this identifier is considered personally identifiable information (PII), likely bringing it into the scope of European privacy law GDPR – still mostly intact in British law as UK GDPR.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/04/google_android/?td=rt-3a