I wish to make it clear that I have nothing to collaborate with the United States, that I have not committed any crime in the US or in any other country, that I will not lie to favor the US against President Nicolás Maduro or his government; a government totally dedicated to the welfare of its people and which is going through an inhumane blockade by the United States that wants to take over the wealth of the country. Let us surround our president and our government with a human shield and let us not allow ourselves to be defeated.
The
top administrator of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops resigned
after a Catholic media site told the conference it had access to
cellphone data that appeared to show he was a regular user of Grindr,
the queer dating app, and frequented gay bars.
Some
privacy experts said that they couldn’t recall other instances of phone
data being de-anonymized and reported publicly, but that it’s not
illegal and will likely happen more as people come to understand what
data is available about others.
…
The resignation stemmed from reporting in the Pillar,
an online newsletter that reports on the Catholic Church. Tuesday
afternoon, after Burrill’s resignation became public, the Pillar
reported that it had obtained information basedon the data Grindr collects from its users, and hired an independent firm to authenticate it.
“A
mobile device correlated to Burrill emitted app data signals from the
location-based hookup app Grindr on a near-daily basis during parts of
2018, 2019, and 2020 — at both his USCCB office and his USCCB-owned
residence, as well as during USCCB meetings and events in other cities,”
the Pillar reported.
“The data obtained and analyzed by The Pillarconveys
mobile app date signals during two 26-week periods, the first in 2018
and the second in 2019 and 2020. The data was obtained from a data
vendor and authenticated by an independent data consulting firm
contracted by The Pillar,” the site reported. It did not identify who
the vendor was or if the site bought the information or got it from a
third party.
The
Pillar story says app data “correlated” to Burrill’s phone shows the
priest visited gay bars, including while traveling for the USCCB.
Grindr did not respond immediately Tuesday to questions.
Privacy
experts have long raised concerns about “anonymized” data collected by
apps and sold to or shared with aggregators and marketing companies.
While the information is typically stripped of obviously identifying
fields, like a user’s name or phone number, it can contain everything
from age and gender to a device ID. It’s possible for experts to
de-anonymize some of this data and connect it to real people.
*reading headline* “hah what’d he do leave his phone in a gay bar after getting drunk and asked the provider to ping its location*
*reading about the “how” for the data getting leaked* Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh what the fuck
“Four years of political murder” was also the title of a book published in 1922 by the statistician Ernst Julius Gumbel (1891-1966). Referring to the enormous rise in politically motivated murders that had taken place between 1918 and 1922, Gumbel collected his data with meticulous precision; he counted 354 murders committed by the radical right and 22 murders committed by the radical left. He also pointed out that the criminal prosecution of radical right and radical left murders differed fundamentally: 326 murders carried out by radical right perpetrators remained unpunished whereas this was true for only four left-wing motivated murders. The average sentence for a radical right murder was four months imprisonment and a two Reichsmark fine, Gumbel computed. A radical left perpetrator typically faced 15 years in prison or a death sentence. Although the victims came from all parts of society and sometimes were, like Rathenau, even members of the acting government, the murders were accompanied by a climate of acceptance.
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