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An L.A. Councilman is attempting to blame the application Waze for neighborhood "cut-throughs", where people divert to side streets during traffic congestion.
In his view this is a new phenomenon that has never happened before, although it is widespread around the world and has been so for many years, certainly existing long before 'apps' became popular. The councilor is planning on using a data sharing agreement with Waze in order to strong-arm the application into becoming less useful, which will not solve the problem because people will just use other applications, and those with local knowledge will still know the quickest route from A to B.
The popularity of Waze is largely because it helps drivers avoid delays and to find alternative routes based on the the reports received from other drivers. Applying the measures that the councilor is hoping for will neuter the app completely, rendering it pointless. However, the councilor does make one good point - there are more pedestrian safety facilities (e.g. crossing points, barriers etc) on major routes and that the practice might lead to increased casualty rates in residential areas.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 30 2015, @09:48AM
Tor's New Search Provider Built By Ex-Google And Ex-NSA Engineers
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https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-45-released [torproject.org]
^ https://blog.torproject.org/#Search [torproject.org]
"New Search Provider[1]
Our default search provider has also been changed to Disconnect. Disconnect provides private Google search results to Tor users without Captchas or bans."
[1] https://search.disconnect.me/ [disconnect.me]
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"Disconnect Search, Built By Ex-Google And Ex-NSA Engineers, Lets You Use Google, Bing And Yahoo Without Tracking"
http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/07/disconnect-search-built-by-ex-google-and-ex-nsa-engineers-lets-you-use-google-bing-and-yahoo-without-tracking/ [techcrunch.com]
FTA:
"notes Patrick Jackson, the ex-NSA engineer who is now CTO of Disconnect"
Yeah.. sounds like a good choice for a default TBB Search Engine... NOT!
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-- On April 28th, 2015 Anonymous said:
"What prompted the change in search engine? Are we now getting paid to include disconnect as the default search engine?"
-- On April 28th, 2015 gk said:
"We don't get paid for that as it currently stands. But Startpage was not happy with our traffic and showed sometimes CAPTCHAs. Disconnect on the other hand approached us with respect to search engine traffic and donated some money."
Donated some money? Hahahahahhaaha. I wonder WHY they approached Torproject? You don't get paid for that CURRENTLY? Nice wording! But there was a DONATION, rrrriiiiight? I can't wait for future news! Please do let us know if and when you start collecting further $$ from the source.
I am insulted. I will continue to use Startpage's free web proxy service in TBB, and DuckDuckGo's .onion hidden service free search engine:
http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion/ [3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion]
So what's next, Torproject? Keystroke logging for Amazon or another company? Partnering with Recorded Future or something like it? Is this what the project has come to now? But that "Disconnect" Search Engine site is so pretty. So nice and clean, WOW! It sort of reminds me of the polished DoD sites I have wandered through.
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Read Their Privacy Policy:
https://disconnect.me/privacy [disconnect.me]
Disgusting.
"I love how they "never collect your Personal Info, except when they do" and "never share your Personal Info (the one they didn't collect, remember?), except when they do""
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With this new "Search Engine", I feel like a rug is being pulled out from underneath me and damn it "that rug really tied the room together."
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 30 2015, @09:51AM
I piss on your off-topic comment. Take that, Dude, I fuck with the Jesus!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 30 2015, @02:18PM
Mary Magdalene, is that you?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 30 2015, @02:32PM
He just posted it to the wrong story, I'm about 80% sure he meant to post it to the one above this - Stop the War Between Privacy and Security – EU Data Watchdog. [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday April 30 2015, @05:15PM