The Facebook scandal is interesting in a number of ways, not the least of which is that we’re sharing our communal outrage on the very platforms that we accuse of breaching our our trust.

The expression of our anger at being turned into a set of psychographic profiles is, ultimately, adding to our psychographic profiles.

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The GDPR provides the following rights for individuals:

• The right to be informed
• The right of access
• The right to rectification
• The right to erasure
• The right to restrict processing
• The right to data portability
• The right to object
• Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling.

""Fox has degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration," wrote Peters, a Fox News "strategic analyst."

"Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association. Now I am ashamed," he wrote."

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(ORDER LIST: 583 U.S.) MONDAY, MARCH 19, 2018 ORDER IN PENDING CASE 17A909 TURZAI, MICHAEL C., ET AL. V. LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS, ET AL. The application for stay presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied.

The original is just as short

In a parallel space, on a different topic, someone directed me to 16 of Stephen Hawking’s Most Mind-Expanding Quotes.

Number 10 resonated for the micro.blog community, ending thus;

With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.

"Einstein was not only a great scientist, he was a great man. He stood for peace in a world drifting towards war. He remained sane in a mad world, and liberal in a world of fanatics."

"‘The most incomprehensible thing about the Universe is that it is comprehensible.’"

"It may surprise you to know that I once almost killed Dick Feynman, too, but that’s a different story for another time."