80-year-old scams liberals

https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2019/03/80-year-old-scams-liberals.html

The online plea to liberals was desperate: "Our volunteer attorneys, doctors, nurses and social workers are working day and night to liberate these children.

"Donations will go to help pay our volunteer attorneys', doctors', nurses' and social workers' costs and pay for transportation to unite immigrant families."

Wow. Hand me my credit card.

The online plea to Bernie Sanders supporters was tempered with this caution, "Every time we process your credit card donation, the big banks take up to 40% of the donations just for processing your credit card donation…That is why we are giving you the option…To make your donations in cash or check."

Forget the credit card. Hand me my checkbook.

Who do I make the check out to?

Cash?

Sounds legit.

And of course it was about as legitimate as Hillary's claim to the White House. Federal prosecutors say John Pierre Dupont (originally John Gary Rinaldo), 80, of California, raised for Bernie Sanders, Beto O'Rourke, and helping illegal aliens – and kept the money for himself.

Nokia says its phones sent data to China by mistake

https://www.engadget.com/2019/03/23/nokia-explains-phone-data-in-china/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer_us=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud2hhdGZpbmdlci5jb20v&guce_referrer_cs=60nUV2ViWEdlBuSWOIdzYg

"Nokia phone brand owner HMD Global is understandably nervous about Finland investigating claims that its handsets send sensitive data to China, and it's trying to clear its name. The company said in a statement that it "mistakenly included" the device activation software for Chinese phones in a "single batch" of Nokia 7 Plus phones meant for other countries. However, that data was "never processed" and wasn't personally identifiable, according to the company. It was fixed through a software update in February 2019, and "nearly all" phones already have that patch."

Just a mistake.

Our bad.

Nothing to see here.

i-SPY. I thought I was paranoid but now I’m 100% sure our phones are listening to us – and I’ve got proof.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/8678640/proof-phones-listening-to-us/

"So I decided to investigate and run a scientific experiment to find out why I was getting these ads, and prove my theory one way or another.

I pulled together a list of topics - businesscards, spandex, vegan food - stuff I had never Googled before, and began talking about them in earshot of my phone.

I made sure my phone's microphone was turned on in all my apps, and kept using social media- like Facebook and Instagram - in exactly the same way."

"Within days I was inundated with ads related to these key words.

Firstly, I got an advert offering 50 per cent off my first purchase of business cards - something I’d never thought about or searched for before but had talked about with a friend, with my phone on the coffee table next to us."