āI was able to quit my job as a waitress within days of her first appearance on social media and the phone simply hasnāt stopped ringing since.ā The business of making Grumpy a millionaire is complex, and as such she has an agent. Ben Lashes, a self-proclaimed āmeme managerā, has translated the public’s thirst for […]
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Assange: Google To Back Hillary Clinton For President In 2016
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Human rights group Amnesty International released free software last Thursday that allows users to determine if their computers are bugged by government intelligence agencies.
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…This would force service providers to retain usersā web metadata to allow greater state surveillance of what people do online ā something that is at least theoretically enabled by the DRIP Act that was recently rushed through Parliament, but only on a temporary basis until 2016. While the Lib Dems have consistently opposed this, they […]
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