As for banks, who can explain their willingness to concede all their assets to Apple, Google & Microsoft? Fintech i.e. apps that withdraw money from actual banks' accounts with or without permission, are changing the politico-legal environment in US and world. Unlike in actual stores, people who shop on web don't have to prove they are the person who owns the card they are using, nor does fintech even ask the account owner's name.
I worry that the entire United States is being fleeced by ruthless, ungodly people, with no knowledge of The Saviour Jesus, nor any morals or business ethics.
I follow the European news and I know that Europe especially Germany has much stricter privacy laws. I also know there is on-going conflict between U.S. and Europe over that fact, as Europe wants to prevent US law from prevailing when their citizens are at risk. The BIG TECHNOLOGY companies are pumped up in stock market every time they are summoned to Congress to market their CEO's and their products. I know Congress thinks they are "punishing big tech" but they are giving them the sort of publicity money cannot buy and picking winners and losers by the power of the purse to award business contracts. All of that is not what our federal government is supposed to be doing!
Since I am a US citizen born in US, but with European and British heritages [ my mother MJBP] has German ancestors, & my father's [ HIP,Jr] surname originated in Poole,England] I see both sides of the issue. I often think on this problem--how people anywhere are going to survive as real people when their entire lives are "captured digitally" and stored for ease of reference in many many many databases around the world that can all be hacked and are often hacked?? What happens to the human race?
The sketch of the panda bear I drew and painted when Bloomberg LP was gathering people to go to Beijing for a "conference" there in 2019. The panda is one of the national symbols of China and they seriously protect their panda population. I have always been interested in China since I read a book as a child about a Baptist missionary, and the missionary was Corrie Ten Boom. As a christian, I acknowledge The Great Commission which is written, "And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, 'all power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth. go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of The Father, and of The Son, and of The Holy Ghost; teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you, and lo, I AM, with you always, even unto the end of the world." Matthew 28:18-20, King James Holy Bible.
This art I created, signed, photographed with my big camera [that I bought years ago when I lived in Columbia Missouri] , uploaded and posted is copyrighted under U S law, whether or not I display it anywhere. Copyright notice: All art, words, tweets, sketches, photographs, blog posts I create are copyrighted under U.S. law and I , Gloria Poole, a.k.a gloriapoole; gloria0817; gpoole817; Ms Gloria Poole; Poole,Gloria; gloriapoole.RN; gloriapoole_RN; cartoonist_gloria; ProlifeNurse; tartan_Bliss; tweetie0817; gloria_poole; gloria.poole; gloria-poole; gloria poole; own all rights of Copyright law to my content. There is no one who is authorized to be in my apartment but me, and there is no one who is authorized to sign my name to anything but me. I have never given my 2nd exhusband DBP any right nor authority to have possession of anything of mine nor to be in my apartment and he has no lawful authority over me and is in fact, my enemy who tried to kill me four times in years 2003-2006, & again in 2012. He would be in federal prison if I were a democrat. The so called law of the west does not acknowledge women as persons but as chattel.
Call it what you want but the fact of the matter is I create the content I post and I have legal rights as a U.S. citizen and as a tenant in Missouri, who pays rent on a particular apartment which is supposed to be private which means not open to other people to walk in when they feel like it nor to loot my possessions. It saddens me that Missouri does not really acknowledge the U S Constitution and its right to privacy and to be free from unlawful searches and seizures by fake real estate managers [i.e. unlicensed off the street people labeled "managers" for the sake of saving managing company money to hire licensed people].
IF I had known when the internet began how unsafe it s, I would not have ever begun with it. But I did, and because a folder of more than 6,000 photos that I photographed and uploaded, was ripped off my Apple iMac last week with dozens if not hundreds of my family photos in it, I think I have to do what I can to alert the public and banks and law enforcement [FBI] to that fact.
Apple iMac computers all in one are not secure and public should know that.
Update same day at 7:18am to share this very good thing--a video that ABC news sent to me via email that is worth listening too:
https://www.abc.net.au/classic/programs/for-the-god-who-sings/for-the-god-who-sings/12495618
Posted by me Gloria Poole,Registered Nurse, artist, Springfield Missouri 3rd August 2020, at 6:58am central time.
