It’s Spooky Season!
What to know: Big Tech collects frighteningly large amounts of data on you.
The TPPF take: It’s scary.
“If you have a Google account—which includes Gmail, YouTube, etc.—they likely have gigabytes of data on you,” says TPPF’s David Dunmoyer. “For example, my Google data is 17.75 GB, which equates to approximately 13 million Word documents. And this is precisely why TPPF has advanced a plan for a Digital Bill of Rights, which would give us the right to know, to delete and correct information, and to opt-out of data collection practices, among other data privacy protections.”
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Iran and Harris
What to know: Iran is reportedly targeting former President Donald Trump with assassination teams and election interference.
The TPPF take: Iran has chosen sides in the U.S. presidential election. It supports Vice President Kamala Harris.
“After four years of former President Donald Trump’s maximum pressure campaign, Iran was broke, with no money for terror and no money to advance a nuclear weapons program aimed at the destruction of Israel,” says TPPF’s Chuck DeVore. “As they did with the southern border and immigration, the Biden-Harris administration reversed all of Trump’s policy successes in the Middle East. As a result, a newly wealthy Iran is flush with dollars to underwrite terror and trouble around the globe.”
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California Apology
What to know: California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a formal apology for slavery.
The TPPF take: California was never a slave state; it entered the union as a free state in 1850.
“If Newsom wants to offer an apology that would matter, he should tell the veterans, drug addicts, broken families and the mentally ill who are sleeping on California’s city streets how sorry he is that his state’s drug and housing policies have exacerbated their problems,” says TPPF’s Sherry Sylvester. “That’s something he actually should apologize for.”
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