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First Lady Melania Trump Unveils New Healing Garden & Name of New Cardiac Intensive Care Floor at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital
First Lady Melania Trump traveled to Miami this morning to unveil the new “Morton and Linda Bouchard Healing Garden” at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital. The healing garden will offer a place of comfort and reprieve for patients and their families. The First Lady also unveiled the new name of the “Esrick Dream Foundation Cardiac Intensive Care Floor” which is also part of Nicklaus Children’s Hospital.
Nicklaus Children’s Hospital is South Florida’s only licensed specialty hospital exclusively for children and is home to the largest pediatric teaching program in the southeastern United States. One of the fundamental pillars making up the First Lady’s Be Best initiative is the well-being of children. The addition of the hospital’s new healing garden is a prime example of how to help nurture, support, and strengthen children currently fighting diseases.
“It is because of the generous donations of people like Morton and Linda Bouchard, or Steve and Kiki Esrick of the Dream Foundation, that hospitals can offer more care and comfort to children who are already battling to get well,” said First Lady Melania Trump. “Thank you to all the generous donors for supporting the hospital and thank you to Jack and Barbara Nicklaus for inviting me to be part of this special occasion. I hope the new garden brings renewed strength to each child that visits.”
Following her remarks, Mrs. Trump participated in a butterfly release with Barbara Nicklaus, a young patient and her twin sister.
Mrs. Trump visited with a few of the children currently patients on the Cardiac Intensive Care Floor before departing.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/first-lady-melania-trump-unveils-new-healing-garden-name-new-cardiac-intensive-care-floor-nicklaus-childrens-hospital/
I cannot WAIT for the day that Melania FINALLY appears on every magazine cover. She doesn't get enough (if any) love from the media. (not that she cares, I'm sure. But I am sick of seeing Michael/Mooshell constantly and never being blessed with seeing MY First Lady).
This woman has had to brace through the worst. I give her so much credit for her strength and how she shows true resolve to us all. She is a true soldier.
Facebook security app used to 'spy' on competitors
A report by a Commons committee has detailed Facebook's use of an application to "spy" on users.
The cross-party group said that Facebook used its Onavo virtual private network (VPN) app to gather information on competitors.
The MPs claim Facebook "intentionally and knowingly violated both data privacy and anti-competition laws".
The report, which is more than 100 pages long, also details the influence of fake news on the site in elections.
Monitoring competitors
The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee wrote that through the use of Onavo, which was billed as a way to give users an extra layer of security, Facebook could "collect app usage data from its customers to assess not only how many people had downloaded apps, but how often they used them".
The report added: "This knowledge helped them to decide which companies were performing well and therefore gave them invaluable data on possible competitors. They could then acquire those companies, or shut down those they judged to be a threat."
A graph the committee includes in the report shows an analysis of data collected with Onavo, detailing how commonly apps were used by Facebook owned and rival services.
In 2013, Facebook offered to buy rival Snapchat for $3bn (ÂŁ2.32bn). It acquired Instagram a year earlier for $1bn.
In 2014, the company successfully acquired WhatsApp for $19bn in cash and shares.
Limiting Vine
The report also details the way the company could shut off access to its services to competitors.
For example, in 2013 Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg was informed about the launch of the Vine video service by social media rival Twitter.
He was told via email that Twitter was going to allow Vine users to find friends on Facebook.
"Unless anyone raises objections, we will shut down their friends' API access today." the email read - a move that would prevent Vine users from inviting their Facebook friends to the service.
Zuckerberg agreed to the move, replying "Yup, go for it."
Twitter eventually chose to close Vine in 2016.
Whitelisting
According to the report, as of November 2013, more than 5,000 apps on Facebook were "whitelisted", meaning that they could gain special access to user data and the data of those user's Facebook friends.
Whitelisted companies included ride-hailing app Lyft, Airbnb and Netflix.
An internal email discussed linking a yearly spend of $250,000 on advertising to maintain company access to user Facebook data.
An email from Mr Zuckerberg, sent in October 2012, outlined his scepticism about the risk of data leaks happening between Facebook application developers.
"I think we leak info to developers, but I just can't think of any instances where that data has leaked from developer to developer and caused a real issue for us," he wrote.
Last year, Facebook was fined ÂŁ500,000 by the UK's data protection watchdog for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The Information Commissioner's Office said that the social media giant had given developers access to user data "without clear consent".
User data which was collected through a personality quiz was used by Cambridge Analytica to profile potential voters.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47281906
I think it's time anons!