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In case you missed it, here's our original investigation into how America’s most iconic gun-makers turned over sensitive personal information on hundreds of thousands of customers to political operatives: propub.li/40V37PI
#News #Data #Privacy #Guns #Politics #Business
Iconic Gun-Makers Gave Sensitive Customer Information to Political Operatives
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians.ProPublica
Earlier this year, we reported on how a former employee said #Microsoft dismissed his warnings about a critical flaw because it feared losing #government business. #Russian hackers later used the weakness to breach the National Nuclear Security Administration, among others.
propublica.org/article/microso…
#Tech #News #Cybersecurity #Hacking #Data #Technology
Microsoft Refused to Fix Flaw Years Before SolarWinds Hack
Former employee says software giant dismissed his warnings about a critical flaw because it feared losing government business. Russian hackers later used the weakness to breach the National Nuclear Security Administration, among others.ProPublica
Senator Slams Gun Industry’s “Invasive and Dangerous” Sharing of Customer #Data With Political Operatives
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In response to a ProPublica investigation, Sen. Richard Blumenthal demanded answers from the gun industry about its “covert program” to collect information on gun owners for #political purposes.
#News #Guns #Privacy #Politics #Business
Gun Industry’s Sharing of Customer Data Slammed by U.S. Sen. Blumenthal
In response to a ProPublica investigation, Sen. Richard Blumenthal demanded answers from the gun industry about its “covert program” to collect information on gun owners for political purposes.ProPublica
This is ONE of the reasons why you should NEVER go to H&R Block !
"Tens of thousands of taxpayer accounts hacked as CRA repeatedly paid out millions in bogus refunds
Agency admits it vastly underreported cyberattacks against Canadian taxpayers to Parliament"
"At the height of this year's tax season, the Canada Revenue Agency discovered that hackers had obtained confidential data used by one of the country's largest tax preparation firms, H&R Block Canada."
"It eventually became clear that the stolen H&R block information helped imposters gain access to Canadians' tax returns, change banking information and even their addresses in order to claim bogus refunds and tax credits."
#News #Canada #Cybersecurity #Data #Taxes #CRA #Finance #Banking #Hacking #OhHellNo
2024 #Election: What the Data Reveals About U.S. #Immigration
Politicians are not giving us the full picture on immigration and what new arrivals have meant for U.S. communities. Our reporting and analysis of #government data explains the real challenges as opposed to the ones being made up to scare you.
#News #Data #Politics #Election2024 #Border #Demographics #Asylum #Migration #Biden #Trump #Harris
The New Effects of Immigration
Recent years have seen a big increase in migrants crossing the U.S. border. But that’s not the most significant change. It’s that many are coming from new countries and with more legal ways to be here.ProPublica
The gun industry launched a secret project in the late 1990s.
To elect gun-friendly politicians, manufacturers gave #political operatives sensitive, intimate information on their customers without their consent.
The story behind the #data sharing and its impact has never been revealed.
Until now.
#News #Guns #Privacy #Politics #Business
propublica.org/article/gunmake…
Iconic Gun-Makers Gave Sensitive Customer Information to Political Operatives
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians.ProPublica
Just started reading this book "Analyzing US Census Data: Methods, Maps, and Models in R" by @kyle_e_walker , which covers how to work with US Census data using R!
LINK: walker-data.com/census-r/index…
Pretty curious about exploring demographic data in R, especially given my work in environmental and social spaces! 🌱 ❤️
Thus, I can't wait to finish this book and dive into US Census data! 😄 💡 💻
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#rstats #reading #coding #uscensus #data #datanalysis #book
Preface | Analyzing US Census Data
This book is an overview of how practitioners can acquire, wrangle, visualize, and model US Census data with the R programming language.walker-data.com
Do you want to train data and visualize the output in the terminal? I got you.
🔥 **burn**: A deep learning framework.
🚀 Supports a real-time dashboard, multiple backends & more!
🦀 Written in Rust & uses @ratatui_rs
📚 Docs: burn.dev
⭐ GitHub: github.com/tracel-ai/burn
#rustlang #ratatui #tui #machinelearning #terminal #deeplearning #visualization #data #commandline
GitHub - tracel-ai/burn: Burn is a new comprehensive dynamic Deep Learning Framework built using Rust with extreme flexibility, compute efficiency and portability as its primary goals.
Burn is a new comprehensive dynamic Deep Learning Framework built using Rust with extreme flexibility, compute efficiency and portability as its primary goals. - tracel-ai/burnGitHub