Facebook’s growing role in the ever-expanding surveillance and “pre-crime” apparatus of the national security state demands new scrutiny of the company’s origins and its products as they relate to a former, controversial DARPA-run surveillance program that was essentially analogous to what is currently the world’s largest social network.
In mid-February, Daniel Baker, a US veteran described by the media as “anti-Trump, anti-government, anti-white supremacists, and anti-police,” was charged by a Florida grand jury with two counts of “transmitting a communication in interstate commerce containing a threat to kidnap or injure.”
The communication in question had been posted by Baker on Facebook, where he had created an event page to organize an armed counter-rally to one planned by Donald Trump supporters at the Florida capital of Tallahassee on January 6. “If you are afraid to die fighting the enemy, then stay in bed and live. Call all of your friends and Rise Up
Mr. Walter Jackson âWJâ Dalton, age 84, of Rainsville passed away April 7th, 2021. Funeral services will be held at 3pm on Sunday, April 11th, 2021from the Rainsville First Baptist Church. Bro. David Cofield, Bro. Billy Garner & Bro. Welton Brooks will be officiating. Mr. Dalton will lie-in-state at the church, prior to the service, on Sunday from 2-3pm. The Family will also receive Friends from 5-9pm on Saturday, April 10th, 2021 from the W.T. Wilson Funeral Chapel.
W.J. was born on November 13, 1936 in Ider, Alabama to Pearl B. and Elva Veal Dalton. He was the first of their twelve children. He attended Ider School for the first and second grade then moved to Sylvania for third grade. His family moved to Chigger Hill community near Geraldine, and he attended Tenbroeck Junior High School through the ninth grade. From tenth grade on to graduation, he attended Geraldine High School. He was part of the graduating class of 1955 from Geraldine High School.
And it is set to call on a string of City grandees and former government ministers to press the flesh on its behalf.
Former universities and science minister David Willetts, 65, was recently appointed to the board, and ex-BT boss Sir Peter Bonfield is a director who has served on the boards of firms such as Sony and Ericsson.
Other advisers include former MI5 director Lord Evans, senior CIA veteran Alan Wade and former UK home secretary Amber Rudd. They could be key to keeping investors on-side.
Darktrace was founded in 2013 by a group of Cambridge mathematicians and former spies.
Clients range from Rolls-Royce to Coca Cola. But the long-running association with Lynch, 55, could be a thorn in its side.
Atom Bank to ponder Spac
Atom Bank also revealed it is considering a stock market listing via a so-called ‘blank cheque’ vehicle, in a hectic day for the tech sector.
Mark Mullen, the digital bank’s boss, said the option of floating through a special purpose acquisition company (Spac) was ‘interesting and intriguing’.
Spacs have become a popular way for tech companies to list because they allow the firms to bypass the traditional float process.
Online used car platform Cazoo, which the Daily Mail and General Trust owns shares in, recently unveiled plans to float in New York via a Spac.
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