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jnagroon Grindr Shares Personal Information With Third-Parties

Well, in the case of PA (as an example) i believe they have a `Subsequent disclosure prohibited` portion of their statute which covers anyone who has the data preventing them from further sharing it without consent.

jnagroon Grindr Shares Personal Information With Third-Parties

I believe HIV status is a special protected piece of information and consent needs to be given before you can share it.

http://www.aidslawpa.org/get-help/legal-information/confiden...

jnagroon New DHS policy on demands for passwords to travelers’ electronic devices

"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say." - Edward Snowden

jnagroon U.S. To End Policy That Let Legal Pot Flourish

The Trump administration has also been tied to the private prison industry.

jnagroon Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disabled

bubble or not, emotion plays a big part of the normal markets too

jnagroon The GNUnet System

ah yeah, youre right. cjdns has that too, you can build mesh networks with it:

https://tomesh.net/build-a-node/

jnagroon The FastMail Security Mindset

name checks out.

jnagroon The FastMail Security Mindset

They are in Australia I believe, still part of the "five eyes" https://www.privacytools.io/#ukusa

jnagroon Cypherpunk Desert Bus: My Role in the 2016 Zcash Trusted Setup Ceremony

he uses a BLU phone in a few of the pictures, they had factory installed malware if i remember correctly?

jnagroon Facebook recruiting and Unix systems

totally agree with dec0dedab0de. and recruiters should pay attention - think of how many smart candidates see this nonsense, consider it a reflection of the organization, and opt-out of the recruiting process.

jnagroon Ad blocking is under attack

It is super ironic that the co-founder @jameshartig was previously at GrooveShark aka "The legality of Grooveshark's business model, which permitted users to upload copyrighted music, remains undetermined."

jnagroon Student Debt Giant Navient to Borrowers: You’re on Your Own

when they took over my loans from salliemae they told us (in writing) that auto-pay would transition.... then it didn't transition, and they tried to ding me for a missed payment. what a nightmare. ultimately my issue was resolved, but only after i filed a complaint with a team at the federal student aid office that handles disputes that cannot be resolved through the lender:

https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/disputes/prepare/co...

then a navient person in that department reached out to me almost immediately.

Edit:

You can also file complaints for general consumer financial help here:

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/

jnagroon Broadband left out of infrastructure goals, and how the FCC wants to fix it

ya down with FCC? yeah you know me... (dunno just popped into my head)

jnagroon Plex Media Server on Cloud

encryption is a mute point unless its some sort of end-to-end encrypted thing since they host the computers.

jnagroon Instacart is playing games with its workers’ pay

it is still not clear to how the people actually doing the work get paid and how much of the order they make?

jnagroon Show HN: Hire an Oldster

state law might have different wording too...

jnagroon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)

Dockwa | https://engineering.dockwa.com | ONSITE | Cambridge, MA | Mobile Engineer, Full-stack Engineer, Director of Engineering

Dockwa allows boaters and marinas to manage dock and mooring reservations. Because life is better boating.

No recruiters, recruiting agencies, consultants, etc.

jnagroon Samsung 'blocks' exploding Note 7 parody videos

i'm interested in joining your fight club

jnagroon Samsung 'blocks' exploding Note 7 parody videos

Satire is fair use. Someone should sue Samsung, Get Lawrence Lessig on this!

jnagroon Samsung 'blocks' exploding Note 7 parody videos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

The Streisand effect is the phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely, usually facilitated by the Internet. It is an example of psychological reactance, wherein once people are aware something is being kept from them, their motivation to access and spread the information is increased.[1]

jnagroon Samsung 'blocks' exploding Note 7 parody videos

You're right. Satire is fair use.

jnagroon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)

Dockwa | https://engineering.dockwa.com | ONSITE | Cambridge, MA | Mobile Engineer, Full-stack Engineer, Director of Engineering

Dockwa allows boaters and marinas to manage dock and mooring reservations. Because life is better boating.

No recruiters, recruiting agencies, consultants, etc.

jnagroon A Growing OpenStreetMap Needs Your Support

what is the best OSM powered navigation app for Android?

jnagroon Navy cover-up of Afghan ‘sex slaves’

"The documents, filed Tuesday in a lawsuit by Brezler against the Navy Department and Marine Corps, also show that Marine and Navy officials in Afghanistan were aware in 2012 of allegations of abuse against children by the Afghan police chief but that the chief was allowed to keep his position in Helmand province anyway. This became a major issue after a teenage boy who worked for the chief — and allegedly was abused by him — opened fire on a U.S. base Aug. 10, 2012, killing three Marines and badly wounding a fourth."

jnagroon Show HN: A self-hosted alternative to Trello, Basecamp, and Freshbooks

so how is it self-hosted if its not open-source? (site is down right now) how is it packaged? what platforms does it run on?

jnagroon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)

Dockwa | Onsite | Cambridge, MA + Newport, RI

OpenTable for Marinas. Marina Management SaSS.

Boaters & Coders.

Looking for Engineers, open to other interested candidates too.

https://dockwa.com/about-us

https://engineering.dockwa.com/

jnagroon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)

dockwa.com | Cambridge, MA, USA | Fulltime or Intern

What: OpenTable for Marinas