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I read the article in part below and stuck at the retribution that was so blunt I gagged. The Chinese Exclusion Act was an amazing show I saw on KQED Channel 9 in San Francisco. To that the 'Privacy Act' with a special clause for the European just wrapped this piece: Enjoy!!
What a sure fire indemnity for our President of the United States of our America. Shame on you and the erasure of such fudge to invite ridiculous measure that values fear as a skate to the ice of that method of what is a day in a stand. To engage the blush against a fearsome or loathsome inch is not to comprehend our dear Founding Fathers. Inasmuch a four year term to the goodbye song of the set is indeed a comfort for those that wish to break the wishbone at Thanksgiving. For me it is the bully of martyrdom that makes more a corner Market the butter on the bread of what is a person that walks each and everyday in our country today. As per the letter in that Independence of Declaration 'We the People' are meant to say in the face of obstruction and used Car Salesman to the Realtor that will not admit he left the Retirement Communities with no condominium with a ocean view but rather gave the mud a house of pits to enjoy. Whether the sadness envelopes the 'Moneypit' or the horror shocked upon 'We the People' in the past two years, surely it must be at the very least a glass half full. Inch that to what is a pitcher and milkglass would return to discuss the 30 million Chinese killed. To say that then there were 4 Chinese in our own United States Census makes me gag, and then I fall dead. Yet, here I am typing a spree wording paper to say that this country has not lost it's calendar, it just blacked it out.
Former NASA scientist says Trump's climate change policy fills agency with 'fear and anxiety'
“Nasa’s talking point is that it’s business as usual, but that’s not true,” former NASA science communicator, Laura Tenenbaum, told The Guardian. People inside the agency are concerned Trump will cut climate science funding. There is a fear and anxiety there and the outcome has been chaos.”
The climate change data and research meant for general public knowledge has come to a near halt under President Trump’s administration, Tenenbaum claimed, noting she received a warning to stay away from phrases like “global warming” when posting on social media or speaking with the press. She said drafts of blog posts on coal plants becoming solar plants and other “reasons to be positive about NASA” were thrown out by other officials who feared retribution from the new President.
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The scientist, who left the agency this past October after a decade-long career at the space agency, said an “arduous review process” of NASA blog and Facebook posts and all tweets she wrote on their main account about the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California began a month after Trump’s January 2017 inauguration.
“I was told verbally by media relations it was because with Trump as President, climate change is now a ‘sensitive subject,’” Tenenbaum told The Guardian. “There was confusion about what to do now we have a president who doesn’t believe in climate change. Everyone was scrambling. It was chaos.”
The Guardian reported before Trump won the White House, NASA generated content for the public on its Facebook page regularly, posting 122 articles in August of 2016 alone. The agency then posted 53 times in January 2017 and is down to 21 times in March of this year, resulting in far less communication with followers and interaction with citizens.
In April 2016, during the Obama administration, there were over 100,000 likes, shares, and comments on the NASA Facebook page. In April 2018, that number plummeted to 7,000.
The posts made on NASA’s various platforms are, although, consistent with global scientists’ findings and research that point to a warming planet and the possible repercussions if little or no action is taken. And the agency claims it is continuing on with its work without interference.
“NASA Communications has not received any directive to change how we communicate about agency research,” a NASA spokesman told the site, “which includes climate change.”
But it is no secret that President Trump and his appointed Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt and Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke are all skeptics on realities of climate change. They’ve each repeatedly denied humankind’s role and have reversed Obama administration policies dedicated to conservation research. President Trump infamously pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement in June 2017 and has called climate change “bulls--t” and a “hoax” created by China.
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The Pocket Technologies may be accessed from countries other than the United States. We control and operate the Pocket Technologies from offices located in the United States and all servers that make it available reside in the United States. We make no representations or warranties that the Pocket Technologies are appropriate for use or access in other locations. If you access and use the Pocket Technologies outside the United States, you do so on your own initiative and you are responsible for complying with United States and your local laws and regulations, if and to the extent such laws are applicable.You may not use, export, re-export, import or transfer the Pocket Technologies except as authorized by United States law, the laws of the jurisdiction in which you obtained the Pocket Technologies, and any other applicable laws. In particular, but without limitation, the Pocket Technologies may not be exported or re-exported: (a) into any United States embargoed countries; or (b) to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department’s list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Denied Person’s List or Entity List. By using the Pocket Technologies, you represent and warrant that you are not located in any such country or on any such list. You also may not use the Pocket Technologies for any purpose prohibited by U.S. law, including the development, design, manufacture or production of missiles, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. We reserve the right to limit, in our sole discretion, the availability of the Pocket Technologies or any portion thereof, to any person, geographic area, or jurisdiction, at any time.
We reserve the right to limit, in our sole discretion, the availability of the Pocket Technologies or any portion thereof, to any person, geographic area, or jurisdiction, at any time.
U.S. GOVERNMENT RESTRICTED RIGHTS
If this product is acquired under the terms of a government contract, use, duplication and disclosure are subject to the terms of this license and the following restrictions: subdivision (c)(1)(ii) of the Rights in Technical data and Computer Software clause at 252.227-7013 (DOD contracts); subdivisions (a) through (d) of 52.227-19 (Civilian agency contracts); and the applicable ADP Schedule Contract (GSA contracts).ACCESS BY CHILDREN
In the United States, if you are a device manufacturer or other third party (the "Sponsor") that provides devices to children under the age of 13 that utilize the Pocket Technologies, you assume the responsibility for complying with the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA") and, to the extent applicable, The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act ("FERPA"). This means that the Sponsor must notify parents/guardians of the information to be collected and obtain parental/guardian consent before collecting and sharing with the Pocket application the personal information of children under the age of 13 in order to establish an account or use the Pocket Technologies. Schools may under appropriate circumstances provide such consent on behalf of parents/guardians. For more information on complying with COPPA, see the Federal Trade Commission’s website at http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/coppafaqs.shtm.Except as provided in the paragraph above, the Pocket Technologies are not for individuals under the age of 13. If you are 13 or older but under the age of 18, you should review this Agreement with your parent or guardian to make sure that you and your parent or guardian understand and agree to it.
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS
If you create a user account or send emails to us, you consent to receive communications from us electronically. We will communicate with you by email or by posting notices on the Pocket Technologies. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. You agree that we may send email to you for the purpose of advising you of changes or additions to the Pocket Technologies or your Pocket Premium subscription, about any of our products or services, or for such other purposes as we deem appropriate.REVISIONS TO AGREEMENT
We may, at any time, revise this Agreement. If we modify the Terms of Service, we will post the modification on our website, through the Pocket Technologies, or otherwise provide you with notice of the modification. Prior to each usage of the Pocket Technologies, you should review the Terms of Service to determine the current Agreement to which you are bound. For your convenience, we include the effective date of the Agreement at the beginning of the document, so that you can easily ascertain whether it has been updated since the last time you viewed the Terms of Service. Your continued use of the Pocket Technologies constitutes acceptance of this Agreement at the time of each use. If the modified Terms of Service are not acceptable to you, your only recourse is to cease using the Pocket Technologies. Notwithstanding the preceding sentences of this paragraph, no revisions to the Terms of Service will apply to any dispute between you and Pocket that arose prior to the date of such revision. These Terms of Service may only be modified in writing as set forth in this paragraph, and may not be modified orally.COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Copyright © 2012-2018 Read It Later, Inc. All rights reserved.Privacy Policy
Posted May 23, 2018
This notice describes the Privacy Policy that applies to all information collected or submitted when you install or use the Pocket™ application or any of the other proprietary software applications or services we provide, and when you visit our website (all of which are referred to collectively herein as the "Pocket Technologies"). The Pocket Technologies are owned and operated by Read It Later, Inc. (referred to herein as "we," "us," "our," "Read It Later" or "Pocket"), which has developed applications and services for use in connection with a variety of devices and platforms, including without limitation, Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Kindle Fire, Android, BlackBerry, Windows phone, Chrome, Safari, Firefox and other mobile devices and computers.We understand your concerns about privacy. We want you to understand what types of information we collect and what may happen to that information if you install the Pocket application, visit the Pocket Website or use any of the Pocket Technologies.
Our Privacy Policy includes the following provisions, and you can jump to each by selecting the links below:
- User Accounts and Collection of Information
- Collection of Information as Part of Using Pocket Service
- Use of Cookies and Analytics
- Use of Information
- Sharing of Information
- Keeping Information
- Transfer of Information
- Security
- Phishing
- Managing My Privacy and Email Settings
- Amendments to Policy
- Contact
USER ACCOUNTS AND COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
You are not required to create a user account or provide any personal information in order to visit the Pocket website. You are required to create a user account, however, to use our application. During registration, you are required to provide a name, password and valid email address.If you choose to share any articles, videos, or other content with another person, we will ask you to provide a valid email address for that person. We may also ask you to provide your username and password for third party websites in order to access the articles and information published on such sites. We also collect information if you contact us for support or help, submit an application or otherwise communicate with us. The information which you supply to us enables us to customize and enhance the services we provide to you. In addition, it helps us communicate with you about our news, events, promotions and new products.
If you choose to subscribe to our paid subscription service, our third party payment processors will collect and handle your credit card and related payment information. Such third party processors’ use of your personal information is governed by their respective privacy policies.
COLLECTION OF INFORMATION AS PART OF USING POCKET SERVICE
In addition to the information that you provide to us when you register for a user account, we collect information about the URLs, titles and content of the web pages and other information you save to Pocket. The types of information we collect includes your browser type, device type, time zone, language, and other information related to the manner in which you access the Pocket Technologies. If you are on a mobile device, we collect the advertising identifiers provided by Apple on iOS and by Google on Android. You can change this identifier in your device settings. We also collect information about your use of the Pocket Technologies so that we can provide our services. For example, as a part of providing Pocket’s syncing features, we sync information about the items that you save and view within Pocket so that your list, tags, scroll position, and other account and usage information may be synced across all of your devices.USE OF COOKIES AND ANALYTICS
In addition to the methods described above, we may also collect information using cookies or other technologies when you access our website or use Pocket Technologies. You may decline our cookies if your browser permits, although in that case you may not be able to use certain features, you may be required to enter your password more frequently during a session, and you may be unable to install or use certain Pocket Technologies. Cookies and other technologies make our Pocket Technologies easier to use and help us customize and personalize the services we provide based on your interests and activities.We may also use "pixel tags," "web beacons," "clear GIFs" or similar means (individually or collectively "Pixel Tags") in connection with emails that we send to our users in order to collect usage data. We use Pixel Tags, other technologies and the information we collect to count users who have visited certain pages on our Website, to deliver branded services and to help determine the effectiveness of promotional or advertising campaigns.
USE OF INFORMATION
We use your personal information to respond to your requests and perform our contract with you. We may do this, for example, by using your contact information to respond to your inquiries, to provide customer support and to supply any products or services you have requested. In addition, if you choose to use the Pocket Technologies to share content with another person, we will use the recipient's email address or user account information to provide that service, but we will not use that email address for any other purpose.We also have a legitimate business interest to operate and improve our services such as saving articles, videos, or other content to Pocket and making such content and recommendations available to you at a later time on any device that you use to access the Pocket Technologies. We also use non-identifying, aggregated information to analyze the manner in which the Pocket Technologies are used, which also allows us to improve our services. The aggregated information we use includes the manner in which articles, videos, or content has been accessed, saved and shared. We may use aggregated information to offer a list of top sites or content, to make recommendations to our users, to report on usage and trends, to improve the products and services that we offer, or to develop new products and services.
SHARING OF INFORMATION
Except as set forth below, we do not share any personally identifiable information unless you expressly agree that we may do so.Public content
If you choose to make the content you save publicly available, we may share that information with others in accordance with the options you select. In addition, if you choose to use the Pocket Technologies to share articles, videos, or other content with another person, we will send an email on your behalf to that person with a link to the content that you have chosen to share.
Aggregate data
We also share aggregated, non-personal data and related usage information, which does not contain any personal information which can identify you or any other individual user, with third parties, including content providers, website operators, advertisers and publishers. For example, we may share with a content provider a list of the most saved articles to Pocket based on an analysis of aggregated, anonymous user data, but we would not share with such content provider any personal information regarding such users.
Links to other sites and apps
If you choose to, you may connect your Pocket account to third-party applications to enable additional features like saving from your favorite apps or other unique features third-party developers have created. We have set up controls in the Pocket application so that you can control the information that is shared with third-party providers of products and services. For example, you may be informed that another app that you use wants to connect to your Pocket account. In some cases, such apps will request access to certain data in your Pocket account, such as your Pocket list or your preferred topics, sites and authors (which we have developed based on the content you have saved to Pocket), so that they can customize their services. Before such access is provided, however, you will be asked to authorize the sharing of any such information. Although the Pocket Technologies may be used in conjunction with third-party products and services, we are not affiliated with, and have no control over, such third parties. Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you and we encourage you to check the privacy policy of each third-party provider of products or services that you choose to connect your Pocket account to.
Working with third parties
We may work with trusted third parties, including internal service providers and the Mozilla Corporation, Read It Later's parent company, to facilitate one or more aspects of the products and services that we provide to you and to conduct research related to Internet usage, and we may provide some of your personal information directly to these third parties. For example, as discussed above, we may use a third party payment processor to process payments for our paid subscription service. We may also share your device ID in working with third parties who assist us in delivering advertisements to you. These parties are subject to confidentiality agreements with us and other legal restrictions that prohibit their use of the information we provide to them for any other purpose other than those discussed above, unless you have explicitly agreed or given your prior permission to them for additional uses.
Sharing as required by law or asset sale
In the event that we or certain of our assets are acquired, user information may be included among the transferred assets.
Although we strive to protect the personal information of our users, we will release personal information if required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary. We follow the law whenever we receive requests about you from a government or related to a lawsuit. We will notify you when we are asked to hand over your personally identifiable information in this way unless we are legally prohibited from doing so. When we receive requests like this, we will only release your personally identifiable information if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is necessary or appropriate under applicable law. Nothing in this policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to a third party's request to disclose your information.
KEEPING INFORMATION
We will keep your information only for as long as we need it to provide you services, manage our business or as required by law or contract.TRANSFER OF INFORMATION
We're a global organization and our computers are in several different places around the world. We also use service providers whose computers may also be in various countries. This means that your information might end up on one of those computers in another country, and that country may have a different level of data protection regulation than yours. By giving us information, you consent to this kind of transfer of your information. No matter what country your information is in, we comply with applicable law and will also abide by the commitments we make in this privacy policy.SECURITY
We have agreements with third parties and have adopted other security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and/or unauthorized alteration of the information under our control or under the control of our service providers. Your personally identifiable information is protected by utilizing both online and offline security methods, including firewalls, passwords and restricted physical access to the places where your information is stored. Although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information or private communications will always remain free from security issues. In the event of a security breach involving your personal information, we will make any legally required disclosures to you in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay, consistent with the legitimate interests of law enforcement, or any measures necessary to determine the scope of the breach and restore the reasonable integrity of the data system.PHISHING
Identity theft and the practice currently known as "phishing" are of great concern to Pocket. Safeguarding information to help protect you from identity theft is a top priority. We do not and will not, at any time, request your username, password, credit card information or national identification number in an unsolicited e-mail or telephone communication. For more information about phishing, visit the Federal Trade Commission’s website.MANAGING MY PRIVACY AND EMAIL SETTINGS
You can access, correct, or delete your personal information and export your data from your Pocket Profile. You can also view and control which third party services, if any, you want to connect to your Pocket account. These settings are at: https://getpocket.com/optionsAs part of our default settings to share saved and recommended content, we send emails to our users. You may opt-out of receiving these, and updates on our service and your use, by using the unsubscribe feature on any of our email correspondence or from your account settings. We will try to communicate with you only according to your instructions, although it may take some time to process your request.
AMENDMENTS TO POLICY
Please note this Privacy Policy will change from time to time. We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amended terms on our Website that you can access at getpocket.com or through the options or help menu of the Pocket application. All amended terms shall automatically be effective thirty (30) days after they are initially posted on the Website. If we make any material changes to our Privacy Policy that affect user information already stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice on our Website notifying users that our Privacy Policy has changed. Our use of your information shall be governed by the terms and conditions of our Privacy Policy in effect when you first use our application or thirty (30) after the terms are changed, as explained above.If you have questions about any of the provisions described above, please contact us at privacy@getpocket.com or at the street address listed above.
CONTACT
If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, you should contact us at privacy@getpocket.com. Alternatively, you may contact us at:Read It Later, Inc.
233 Sansome, Suite 1200
San Francisco, CA 94104
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