- Gave
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- Nov 07, 2020
Information Quotes
What we know, how we get it, and who controls it.
These information quotes span a wartime account of physicists comparing notes across borders, a case for treating the internet as more than just open access to ideas, and technical descriptions of how scientists actually gather data, from nuclear radiation measurements to brain tissue analysis. See Internet for the modern angle on this theme.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Choices
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- Nov 07, 2020
Default choices often remain unchanged for no reason other than being the default, either because of this lack of information or humans' status quo bias.
- Independent
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is not much point in establishing an organisation like the independent commission for information retrieval, or the other organisations that we agreed to, if we do not encourage people to participate.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People choose their modes of information in much more tunneled ways. I think cable news contributes for sure. I think President Trump contributes.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ironically, one of the clearer threats to consumer privacy is the government's largely unchecked ability to collect your sensitive information without due process.
- Nov 07, 2020
My wife runs a non-profit that gives legal information online to victims of domestic violence.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.
- Devices
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the results of using technical bugging devices were of little importance for my service. It may have been different in counter-intelligence, where bugs in flats, etc., were used to obtain a lot of information about what counter-intelligence was interested in.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology.
- False
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that the Clinton campaign and the DNC paid intelligence officials in Russia for salacious and false information on President Trump is suspicious enough.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet is a great information tool, and can be a place where kids learn, but we must remember that when kids are online, they are in public.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020