Congressional Candidate Laura Loomer Files FEC Complaint Against Twitter For Providing In-Kind Corporate Contributions to Her Opponent

Republican Congressional Candidate Laura Loomer has filed a formal Federal Election Commission complaint against Twitter for providing in-kind corporate contributions to her opponent, Democrat Congresswoman Lois Frankel, by censoring her from the platform.

Loomer, 26, is one of the most banned political commentators, and now candidates for office, in the nation — having been kicked off Twitter, Facebook, Uber, Lyft, PayPal, GoFundMe, and other platforms for her fierce and controversial criticism of Islam.

Laura is currently running for office in Florida’s 21st district — which happens to be the voting residence of President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/congressional-candidate-laura-loomer-files-fec-complaint-against-twitter-for-providing-in-kind-corporate-contributions-to-her-opponent/

Iran prepares ‘satellite launch’. Will US go ballistic?

US fears long-range ballistic technology to put satellites into orbit could launch nukes

Iran had at least three major failures with satellite programme last year

Iranian officials and satellite images suggest the Islamic Republic is preparing to a launch a satellite into space after three major failures last year, the latest for a programme which the US claims helps Tehran advance its ballistic missile programme.

Satellite images from San Francisco-based Planet Labs Inc. that have been annotated by experts at Middlebury Institute of International Studies show work at a launch pad at the Imam Khomeini Spaceport in Iran’s Semnan province.

The photos also show more cars and activity at a facility at the spaceport, some 230km (145 miles) southeast of Iran’s capital, Tehran. Such activity in the past has signalled a launch looms.

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3047890/iran-prepares-satellite-launch-will-us-go-ballistic

Anti-Iranian regime protests erupt yet again in Iraq

Iraq, January 27, 2020—Widespread uprisings have spread across Iraq yet again as Iraqis continue to protest government corruption and the Iranian regime’s meddling in their country. People in Baghdad, Nasiriyah, Basrah, Najaf, Babylon, Samawah, Diwaniyah, Karbala, Kut, Diyala, al-Amarah and Qana have seen flooding into the streets and clashing with Tehran-backed militias.

Sky News Arabia reported millions of college students were demonstrating on Sunday, January 26, in various provinces of Iraq. The Iraqi people’s anger is far more powerful than any security measure taken by the government. The demonstrators in Baghdad’s iconic Tahrir Square were chanting against the mullahs’ regime and their affiliates following their failed Friday rally.

January 26 - #Iraq

Widespread demonstrations in Baghdad, Basrah, Dhi Qar, Karbala & other areas against the Iranian regime's meddling. pic.twitter.com/dJZSjvGHeu

— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) 26 January 2020

On Sunday, oppressive government forces attacked college students and other protesters in Karbala, southern Iraq, leaving at least 20 people injured with wounds caused by hunting rifle shots.

https://english.mojahedin.org/i/iraq-iran-nasiriyah-protests-baghdad-wathba-corruption-meddling-20200127

Anti-Virus Software Harvests ‘Every Search, Every Click, Every Buy, On Every Site’

Data is the new oil of the 21st century and Technocrats are the new roughnecks. In this case, the software is free but your data is priceless and wantonly harvested without your consent or knowledge. ⁃ TN Editor

An antivirus program used by hundreds of millions of people around the world is selling highly sensitive web browsing data to many of the world’s biggest companies, a joint investigation by Motherboard and PCMag has found. Our report relies on leaked user data, contracts, and other company documents that show the sale of this data is both highly sensitive and is in many cases supposed to remain confidential between the company selling the data and the clients purchasing it.

The documents, from a subsidiary of the antivirus giant Avast called Jumpshot, shine new light on the secretive sale and supply chain of peoples’ internet browsing histories. They show that the Avast antivirus program installed on a person’s computer collects data, and that Jumpshot repackages it into various different products that are then sold to many of the largest companies in the world. Some past, present, and potential clients include Google, Yelp, Microsoft, McKinsey, Pepsi, Sephora, Home Depot, Condé Nast, Intuit, and many others. Some clients paid millions of dollars for products that include a so-called “All Clicks Feed,” which can track user behavior, clicks, and movement across websites in highly precise detail.

https://www.technocracy.news/anti-virus-software-harvests-every-search-every-click-every-buy-on-every-site/

Government Privacy Oversight Board Pressured To Recommend Facial Recognition Ban In US

PCLOB is a federal watchdog agency that advises Congress and the Executive on privacy issues. It is being actively lobbied by privacy groups to issue a recommend a ban on facial recognition in America. ⁃ TN Editor

The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), an independent agency, is coming under increasing pressure to recommend the federal government stop using facial recognition.

Forty groups, led by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, sent a letter Monday to the agency calling for the suspension of facial recognition systems “pending further review.”

“The rapid and unregulated deployment of facial recognition poses a direct threat to ‘the precious liberties that are vital to our way of life,'” the advocacy groups wrote.

The PCLOB “has a unique responsibility, set out in statute, to assess technologies and polices that impact the privacy of Americans after 9-11 and to make recommendations to the President and executive branch,” they wrote.

The agency, created in 2004, advises the administration on privacy issues.

https://www.technocracy.news/government-privacy-oversight-board-pressured-to-recommend-facial-recognition-ban-in-us/