ProPublica – by Derek Kravitz and Marshall Allen

Medical devices are gathering more and more data from their users, whether it’s their heart rates, sleep patterns or the number of steps taken in a day. Insurers and medical device makers say such data can be used to vastly improve health care.

But the data that’s generated can also be used in ways that patients don’t necessarily expect. It can be packaged and sold for advertising. It can anonymized and used by customer support and information technology companies. Or it can be shared with health insurers, who may use it to deny reimbursement. Privacy experts warn that data gathered by insurers could also be used to rate individuals’ health care costs and potentially raise their premiums.   Continue reading “Your Medical Devices Are Not Keeping Your Health Data to Themselves”

WOKV

The Finance Director of the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office has been arrested on dozens of charges in connection to a scheme that defrauded the Sheriff’s Office and associated Benevolence Fund of more than $700,000.

SJSO says 47-year-old Raye Brutnell admitted to the fraud and claimed she did it because of the “financial strain” her family was facing.    Continue reading “St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office Finance Director Arrested For $700,000 Fraud Scheme”

Daily Mail

An American missionary was killed with arrows shot by protected tribesmen living on a remote Indian island after he arrived there in a bid to convert them to Christianity.

John Allen Chau, 27, of Vancouver, Washington, paid local fishermen to help him get to North Sentinel Island, one of the world’s most isolated regions in India’s Andaman islands.    Continue reading “American missionary, 27, killed by protected tribesmen on remote island”

MassPrivateI

Bloomberg is spending six million dollars on a “Mayors Challenge” that will put microphones in police drones.

According to an article in WPFL 89.3, Bloomberg Philanthropies wants the Louisville Kentucky Police Department to send out self-guided aerial drones equipped with ShotSpotter microphones across the city.   Continue reading “Bloomberg’s role-playing workshops convince the public to accept self-guided police drones equipped with microphones”

Chicago Tribune – by Tresa Baldas

In a major blow to the government, a federal judge in Detroit has declared the nation’s female genital mutilation law unconstitutional, thereby dismissing nearly all of the charges against two Michigan doctors and seven others accused of subjecting at least nine minor girls to genital cutting in the nation’s first FGM case.

The historic case involves minor girls from Michigan, Illinois and Minnesota, including some who cried, screamed and bled during the procedure and one who was given Valium ground in liquid Tylenol to keep her calm, court records show.   Continue reading “Federal judge finds female genital mutilation law unconstitutional”

Daily Mail

Facebook and Instagram are still down for some users around the globe, 10 hours after the outages were first reported around 7am ET (12pm GMT) on Tuesday.

Users on both popular platforms were left unable to load the sites for hours, and thousands of people were unable to access their accounts entirely.

A Facebook spokesperson confirmed outages had hit its ‘family of apps’ and that the firm is working to fix the issue.     Continue reading “Facebook and Instagram are STILL down: Firm says it’s ‘working to resolve the issue’ as users around the world have trouble logging on 10 hours later”

Reuters

BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing’s municipal government will assign citizens and firms “personal trustworthiness points” by 2021, state media reported on Tuesday, pioneering China’s controversial plan for a “social credit” system to monitor citizens and businesses.

The system’s rollout has attracted international headlines, sparking comparisons to George Orwell’s novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, with critics saying it could massively heighten the Chinese Communist Party’s already strict control over society.   Continue reading “Beijing pioneering citizens’ ‘points’ system critics brand ‘Orwellian’”

ABC News

COLTS NECK, N.J. (AP) — Two children and two adults were found dead Tuesday at a burning mansion that was intentionally set ablaze in an upscale community near the New Jersey shore, officials said.

One of the owners of the home is a technology CEO with a relative whose house not far away also caught fire Tuesday, records show. Authorities said they were investigating whether there was a link.

Continue reading “2 Kids, 2 Adults Dead in Arson Fire at Mansion”

Corbett Report

Difficult as it had been for the Round Table to maneuver the British Empire into the war with Germany, it would be that much harder for their American fellow travelers to coax the United States out of its neutrality and into World War One. The cabal was going to have to leverage its control of the press and key governmental positions to begin to shape public perception and instill pro-war sentiment. And once again, the full resources of these motivated co-conspirators were brought to bear on the task. Join The Corbett Report for Part Two of The WWI Conspiracy. Continue reading “The WWI Conspiracy – Part Two: The American Front”

Q13 Fox

The Centers for Disease Control came out Tuesday with a warning for everyone in the United States: Do not eat any romaine lettuce.

CDC officials are investigating the cause of an E. coli outbreak that has infected 32 people in 11 states. They were infected from October 8, 2018 through October 31, 2018. So far, there have been no cases in Washington State.   Continue reading “CDC: Do not eat ANY Romaine lettuce amid E. coli outbreak”

The Corbett Report

What was World War One about? How did it start? Who won? And what did they win? Now, 100 years after those final shots rang out, these questions still puzzle historians and laymen alike. But as we shall see, this confusion is not a happenstance of history but the wool that has been pulled over our eyes to stop us from seeing what WWI really was. This is the story of WWI that you didn’t read in the history books. This is The WWI Conspiracy.   Continue reading “The WWI Conspiracy – Part One: To Start A War”

Daily Mail

This is the dramatic moment a forklift operator caused an entire warehouse of goods to fall like dominoes when he bumped into a shelving unit.

The clip, filmed inside an unnamed distribution warehouse, captured the driver as he made his way down an aisle between two tall pallet racks.   Continue reading “Forklift driver causes an entire warehouse to fall like dominoes when he nudges a shelving unit”

Middle East Monitor

According to Defence for Children International Palestine (DCIP), since the beginning of the year, the Israeli Occupation Forces have killed 52 children in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, 46 of whom in the Gaza Strip.

The international movement said in a statement on Monday that among the children the occupation forces have killed, 18 were injured in the head, nine in the chest, seven in the abdomen, and five in the neck.   Continue reading “Defence for Children International Palestine: Israeli army killed 52 Palestinian children since beginning of 2018”

Daily Mail

Killjoy council officials forced a father to scrap his daughter’s swing set in case other children play on it.

Tony Carter has had to tear down the swings in his garden on the grounds they could pose a threat to neighbourhood youngsters despite being behind a fence.

It was his second run-in with Canterbury City Council in Kent after the authority also forced him to remove a shallow paddling pool.    Continue reading “Council killjoys order father, 42, to remove his four-year-old daughter’s SWING from his garden in case other children play on it”