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  • Facebook parent Meta will pay $725M to settle a privacy suit over Cambridge Analytica

    12/31/2022 8:11:32 AM PST · by Enlightened1 · 7 replies
    NPR ^ | 12/23/22 | Ashley Ahn
    Facebook parent company Meta has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a class-action lawsuit claiming it improperly shared users' information with Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm used by the Trump campaign.The proposed settlement is a result of revelations in 2018 that information of up to 87 million people may have been improperly accessed by the third-party firm, which filed for bankruptcy in 2018. This is the largest recovery ever in a data privacy class action and the most Facebook has paid to settle a private class action, the plaintiffs' lawyers said in a court filing Thursday.Meta did not...
  • PICTURED: Female bank robber, 37, who sparked terror at Dallas Love Field Airport by opening fire at baggage check-in area - and sending passengers diving for cover

    07/25/2022 4:12:37 PM PDT · by DFG · 102 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 07/25/2022 | CLAUDIA AORAHA
    A woman who fired several shots in the air near a ticket counter in Dallas Love Field Airport, Texas, before she was shot by a police officer has been pictured. Portia Odufuwa, 37, opened fire and shot several rounds of a handgun just before 11am this morning as terrified passengers hid under chairs and were evacuated amid the active shooting. Shortly after opening fire, a police officer at the scene confronted the woman - shooting and injuring her. She was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where she remains, police said. The Federal Aviation Administration also issued a ground stop at...
  • School assignment depicts police as slave owners, KKK Superintendent(David Vinson) blasted for 'abhorrent and disturbing' comparison

    08/21/2020 7:59:50 AM PDT · by rktman · 29 replies
    wnd.com ^ | 8/20/2020 | Wnd Staff
    A Texas school district drew a rebuke from the nation's largest police union after a junior high school teacher distributed an assignment that likens police to slave owners and Ku Klux Klan members. The unauthorized assignment featured a five-panel cartoon of a slave ship officer and others with a knee on a black man's neck. It culminated with a modern-day police officer with a knee on a suspect's neck, the Washington Examiner reported. The victims, echoing the words of George Floyd, say, "I can’t breathe." David Vinson, the superintendent of the Wylie Independent School District, northeast of Dallas, apologized after...
  • Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower: Facebook Able to Listen to You at Home and Work

    03/27/2018 6:19:03 PM PDT · by Beave Meister · 40 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 3/27/2018 | PAULA BOLYARD
    Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christoper Wylie, appearing before a committee of British MPs on Tuesday, said that Facebook has the ability to spy on users in their homes and offices. The British parliament is investigating Cambridge Analytica's involvement in the Brexit election. MP Damian Collins, who chaired the committee, asked Wyle whether Facebook has the ability to listen to what people are talking about in order to better target them with ads. "There's been various speculation about the fact that Facebook can, through the Facebook app on your smartphone, listen in to what people are talking about and discussing and using...
  • Cambridge Analytica Played Roles in Multiple African Elections

    03/22/2018 9:53:48 PM PDT · by UMCRevMom@aol.com · 26 replies
    voice of america/ Africa Division ^ | March 22, 2018 | Salem Solomon
    People walk past the building that houses the offices of Cambridge Analytica in central London, March 20, 2018. Share WASHINGTON — Long before its controversial roles in the 2016 Brexit vote and U.S. presidential election, Cambridge Analytica influenced elections in Africa. The data mining company, under fire for its alleged use of 50 million Facebook accounts to shape campaign messages for then-candidate Donald Trump, also played a role in elections in Kenya and Nigeria, according to new reports. The company's first involvement in Africa dates to the general election in South Africa in 1994. That election marked the end of...
  • Father Justin Wylie and Holy Innocents

    06/11/2014 4:15:23 AM PDT · by NYer · 16 replies
    Catholic in Brooklyn ^ | May 28, 2014
    Father Justin Wylie Father Justin Wylie is a priest from South Africa who is an Attaché of the Holy See to the United Nations. I have personally met him and attended Masses in which he has been the celebrant and listened to several of his talks. He is a good, holy priest, and tremendously loyal to the Catholic Church. He is also a great devotee of the Traditional Latin Mass, and celebrates it beautifully. Father Wylie recently celebrated Mass and gave a sermon at Holy Innocents Church in Manhattan. Holy Innocents, along with dozens of other churches in the...
  • What happens when a top law firm gets two crooks for clients?

    10/14/2005 1:02:51 AM PDT · by gpapa · 5 replies · 2,220+ views
    Texas Monthly ^ | November 2001 | John Spong
    Texas Monthly November 2001 What happens when a top law firm gets two crooks for clients? At Locke, Liddell, and Sapp, the result was a $30 million settlement for angry investors. by John Spong LOCKE PURNELL ATTORNEY JANE MATHESON'S NOTE ON THE BACK OF A TRADE AGREEMENT her firm was editing for client Russell Erxleben in February 1998 got right to the point: "Tell the truth." Erxleben, an All-American punter and place kicker for the University of Texas Longhorns in the seventies, had enlisted the 110-year-old, blue-chip Dallas law firm to keep his company, Austin Forex Investments (AFI), from running...
  • Police searching for robbery suspects (UPDATE)

    11/04/2004 12:54:25 PM PST · by ladtx · 20 replies · 693+ views
    DALLAS MORNING NEWS ^ | 4 NOV 2004 | DALLAS MORNING NEWS
    A morning bank robbery in Richardson turned into an area-wide search for at least two suspects armed with automatic weapons who police said fired on numerous officers during a pursuit. The men are still at large, and by 1 p.m. authorities believed the two men had fled to Wylie, but were unsure what vehicle the men may be driving.
  • Cyclist dies from accident injuries - Larry Schwartz; pedaled appx. 26,000 miles last year

    05/05/2003 10:49:13 AM PDT · by MeekOneGOP · 26 replies · 312+ views
    Cyclist dies from accident injuries 05/05/2003 From Staff Reports A well-known North Texas cyclist died Sunday, three days after he was hit by a school bus in Collin County. Larry Schwartz, 42, of Wylie was biking east on FM1461 about 8:05 a.m. Thursday when the mirror of a passing eastbound school bus struck his head, knocking him to the ground. The nationally known marathon cyclist was unconscious when he was taken by medical helicopter to the hospital. Larry Schwartz The bus driver, Robert Haynes, 40, was jailed on a felony charge of failure to stop and render aid, said Senior...