The U.K.’s privacy watchdog on Thursday fined Facebook £500,000 ($569,700) for allowing illicit access to users’ data by the political-data firm Cambridge Analytica—and said it would have handed the social network a bigger fine if it could have. https://t.co/UAvznRHUQW
Brazil is about to join an expanding group of nations electing anti-establishment leaders, as voters grow frustrated with corruption and slow growth https://t.co/3G95LB8SIf via @WSJ
my guess is, like the Soros one, we'll talk about this for maybe a few hours, whereas if these were being found at conservative houses we'd be subjected to weeks of pundits chastising the left
Bill Browder, U.K. investor pursuing banks for laundering dirty money from Russia, says he has evidence $405 million in suspicious funds flowed into accounts at Nordea Bank Abp. https://t.co/JelgXVrAPi
WSJ's Sam Rubenfeld asks if the recent SAR leaks will having a chilling effect on financial institutions reporting suspicious activity. Full disclosure: I'm quoted at the end. #AML https://t.co/yl6REb7c0j
U.S. steelmakers pushed to impose tariffs earlier this year and then successfully got other tariffs removed from the latest duties list https://t.co/pE8lwUADM9 via @intipach@JoshZumbrun
The state treasurers of Rhode Island, Illinois and Pennsylvania joined a shareholder proposal by Trillium Asset Management seeking Mark Zuckerberg’s removal as chairman of Facebook #corpgov https://t.co/StUAJYI3pC via @WSJ
Business people are paying for anti-PT Whatsapp campaigns - which amounts to illegal electoral donations. We finally begin to understand what's behind this Whatsapp craziness in Brazil. https://t.co/qao9Ct5LV7
"With more than 63,000 violent deaths last year alone, the number of Brazilians murdered in 2017 outstrips U.S. combat deaths for the entire Vietnam War." This,
and disgust for PT's taint of #corruption explain the rise of Bolsonaro, I gathered during my #Brazil visit last week.
★ Insight Report of the Week—"Brazil's military poised to amass power after three-decade wait", by @bruceecurb@rachelgamarski & Gabriel Shinohara | @bpolitics https://t.co/6ROD1nbZrI