At least Obama tried to bring them to them mainland and house them old prisons etc which would've brought the inmates under the jurisdiction of non military courts and thus they would've gotten their day in court, a fair trial not military court bs. Sadly no one wanted to do this, talks of "I'm not going to let terrorists anywhere near my home!" were prevalent and the plan was dead. There is no easy way of choosing Guantanamo Bay given the military industrial complex.
Similar companies are the credit reference agencies - Equifax, Experian, TransUnion.
Every time you request your data from credit reference agencies, the request is logged. My log has many such entries, due to repeated checking I did while trying to get corrections sorted, and due to the third party companies I used to help with this.
So I'd expect the same to be true for the customer rating agencies.
In the case of credit agencies, they say that information ("soft" enquiries) is not used to assess credit risk - and that it's either not made available to companies that process applications, or must not be used by those companies in the assessmment.
To be honest, seeing the kinds of errors I've seen, as well as seeing the inner workings when it is being corrected, some of it shows very shoddy, and in some cases seriously unethical processes (that the companies know about).
So I simply don't believe that companies are diligent about following the "must not be used" rule for data they "may" receive and are supposed to ignore. To convince me, it would require a level of auditing, or quality of audit, that companies plainly are not getting.
And these are companies I still do business with because they are good enough. Goodness knows what to think of companies I wouldn't do business with, if I knew about them and had any choice in the matter.
The only company to request proof thus far in the process is Zeta Global which presents a secure portal to upload your ID. However, to be honest, I'm not that concerned about emailing my ID if necessary.
"In order to process your rights request, Sift’s Privacy Team needs to collect the below information about you. We are unable to process your request without complete submission of this form and a copy of your valid government ID for verification purposes."
They havent provided me the Google form for Sift. I'll still submit it to them though. I've once been a Coinbase customer so they likely have it already.
I know no one wants to hear this but Assange wouldn't be in the mess if he had conducted his operation more intelligently. Others have done similar actions and faced no repercussion. This is the fault of Assange's hubris and lack of attention. I used to be a huge Assange and Wikileaks supporter but I haven't been for quite some time. He/they made serious but entirely avoidable mistakes.
Edit: Fwiw I support whistleblowers and government transparency and the end to rampant unconstitutional surveillance overreach but I simply couldn't support Assange after finding that he crossed a known ethical line with the inducement and material support. And Chelsea Manning should've never went to jail. Shes the true whistleblower in all of this. And Adrian Lamo and Assange are the ones that made serious yet avoidable mistakes. He simply should've acted as a carrier/news organization but he/they didn't do that. That and the support from Russia and eagerness to influence the election at all costs while maintaining impartiality is laughable. Maybe Assange could've been a force for good if he hadn't taken sides.
I would love to truly know the sentiments, statistically, of what the Chinese citizens perspective on HK was. I've asked a few people but they dont want to talk about it or dont seem to really care. A lot of Chinese I know are nationalistic but dont care about the day to day to news. Plus I imagine the bulk of people would only know whatever news they were plugged into. It somewhat analogous to Americans who I talk to and wonder how they came to the conclusions they did and then it all makes sense when they tell me they are only plugged into one network or media outlet. And both parties dont want to look deeper at all and have no desire to. It's a shame.
I was honestly had no problems reading about Tieneman Square on Wikipedia while walking around Tieneman Sqaure last year during National Week. The thing is most of the people who know about this stuff already do and the regular Joe on the street isn't going to put work into it. The people on the ground are a lot of the time patriotic to a fault. It reminded me a lot of the non-questuoning patriotism that permeates midwest America. And honestly I got the idea they desperately want to be America (*with Chinese characteristics;) ).That being said using a VPN only is not the best solution. A suite of software solutions working in concert is a much better route. Certain VPN providers are better than others given their size or implementation but even still the large ones see huge reductions in reliability during patriotic times (i.e. National Week etc). Best to RYO or use a concert of software implementations.
That's my question: do the people that want 100pc of the manufacturing to come back to the US have a plan for the inevitable ecological fallout? When we outsourced production to China we also outsourced the pollution produced by that manufacturing.
