Pavel Durov, the French-Russian billionaire who founded the messaging app Telegram, was detained at an airport in France, a CNN affiliate reports
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Pavel Durov, the French-Russian billionaire who founded the messaging app Telegram, was detained at an airport in France, a CNN affiliate reports NYT: "If you drive a car made by General Motors and it has an internet connection, your car’s movements and exact location are being collected and shared anonymously with a data broker. This practice, disclosed in a letter sent by two Democratic senators to the FTC on Friday, is yet another way in which automakers are tracking drivers, often without their knowledge."
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@GottaLaff Ford does the exact same thing. Ford keeps track of salespeople at dealerships, and they're required to set up the system with the customer's information, usually while the customer is in finance. Salespeople are required to get the car programmed one way or another, even if the car has already left the dealership @GottaLaff This is why I sold my Honda Motorscooter. It had one of those Y Connect things and would drain the battery at night. Plus letting Honda (or whoever) track my movements. @GottaLaff I remember when GM first introduced On*Star in their cars. "So anyone with access to their computer systems can locate my car, see what condition it's in, and remotely unlock the doors? That doesn't seem like a good idea..." The dealership did not understand my concern at all.
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@GottaLaff oh boy… this makes me nervous. I’m blue no matter who… but I desperately hope 3 months is enough time to solidify the enthusiasm around our new candidate 😬 @GottaLaff I am terrified that this will devolve into chaos. And I feel terrible for Biden, who has done a spectacular job. Omg. #RIP Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90
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Via Garry Kasparov: Don't wonder what will happen if #Russia collapses. It already did! Years ago. It's not a state, it's a mafia front with factions fighting each other for money, resources, and power. Whatever is happening now, it was already clear Putin wasn't able to control every faction or to keep the infighting quiet or at least non-violent the way he mostly could before.
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@GottaLaff This is basically the civil war that Gorbachev forestalled by allowing the peaceful breakup of the USSR. Amazing and sad that Russians — who once had such a bright future — have thrown it all away on this. In case Putin goes for an extended holiday trip to Beijing, will he continue to pay US politicians, or will Xi offer some help? @GottaLaff |