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Aug 11 2015
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China Devalues Yuan After Poor Economic Data
China devalued its currency on Tuesday after a run of poor economic data a move it billed as a free-market reform, but which some suspect could be the beginning of a longer-term slide in the exchange rate.
HuffPost
May 14 2014
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Who watches the watchers? Big Data goes unchecked
The National Security Agency might be tracking your phone calls. But private industry is prying far more deeply into your life. Commercial data brokers know if you have diabetes. Your electric company can see what time you come home at night. And tracking companies can tell where you go on weekends by snapping photos of your car’s license plate and cataloging your movements.
Politico
Jun 05 2015
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Chinese breach data of 4 million federal workers
Hackers compromised the computer system of the Office of Personnel Management in December, officials said, in the largest exposure of government employee data in recent years.
Washington Post
Jun 04 2015
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Poll: 6 in 10 back renewal of NSA data collection
Americans overwhelmingly want to see Congress renew the law enabling the government to collect data on the public's telephone calls in bulk, though they are split on whether allowing that law to expire increases the risk of terrorism in the U.S.
With the provisions of the Patriot Act which allow the National Security Administration to collect data on Americans' phone calls newly expired
CNN (Online News)
Jul 25 2015
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Hillary Clinton Emails Said to Contain Classified Data
Government investigators said Friday that they had discovered classified information on the private email account that Hillary Rodham Clinton used while secretary of state, stating unequivocally that those secrets never should have been stored outside of secure government computer systems.
Mrs. Clinton has said for months that she kept no classified information on the private server
New York Times (News)
Jun 09 2015
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Hillary Clinton adviser dismisses negative polling data
A top adviser to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign dismissed drooping polling data on Wednesday, saying he believes there's been "minimal change" since she entered the Democratic race in April.
"I take all of these public polls with a grain of salt," Joel Benenson, who was President Barack Obama's pollster in 2008 and 2012, said in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
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CNN (Online News)
Jun 03 2015
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Thought bulk data collection was gone? Think again
The NSA is gearing up to collect millions of Americans telephone metadata -- again. Just two days after the agency shut down that program when the Patriot Act provision that authorized it expired Sunday at midnight, the Senate restored those authorities, allowing the government to reinstate bulk data collection -- for the next six months. How? By passing the USA Freedom Act, the bill
CNN (Online News)
Jun 05 2015
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Chinese hackers access data of 4 million federal employees
Chinese hackers stole the personal information of 4.1 million current and former federal employees in one of the largest-ever breaches of a U.S. government computer network, federal officials revealed Thursday.
Politico
Jun 05 2015
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China Suspected in Massive Breach of Federal Personnel Data
China-based hackers are suspected of breaking into the computer networks of the U.S. government personnel office and stealing identifying information of at least 4 million federal workers, American officials said Thursday.
The Blaze
Mar 15 2015
News
A Young Manager for Clinton Juggles Data and Old Baggage
On MSNBC last week, 70-year-old James Carville denounced the coverage of his old friend Hillary Rodham Clinton’s use of a personal email account at the State Department, ticking off two decades’ worth of scandals surrounding the Clintons that he attributed to an irresponsible news media.
Mr. Carville complained to the host, Andrea Mitchell, that he had “lived through this.”
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New York Times (News)