BitGou: Friday Morning Briefing: Me, myself and my online profile

2018年3月29日星期四

Friday Morning Briefing: Me, myself and my online profile

Highlights

Exclusive: Three firms that bought crude oil last year from U.S. emergency stockpiles raised concerns about dangerous levels of a poisonous chemical in the cargoes, according to internal Energy Department emails and shipping documents reviewed by Reuters.

China warned the United States not to open Pandora’s Box and spark a flurry of protectionist practices across the globe, even as Beijing pointed to U.S. goods that it could target in a deepening Sino-U.S. trade dispute.

President Donald Trump ousted Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin in response to heavy criticism and nominated his personal physician, Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson, to replace him in the latest turnover among Trump’s team.

World

North and South Korea will hold their first summit in more than a decade on April 27, South Korean officials said, after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged his commitment to denuclearization as tensions ease between the old foes.

Rioting and a fire in the cells of a Venezuelan police station in the central city of Valencia killed 68 people, according to the government and witnesses. “The State Prosecutor’s Office guarantees to deepen investigations to immediately clarify what happened in these painful events that have left dozens of Venezuelan families in mourning,” said Chief Prosecutor Tarek William Saab on Twitter.

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Commentary Chinese claims to near-total sovereignty over the South China Sea basin were flatly rejected by a UN tribunal in 2016. Nevertheless, Beijing continues to aggressively assert control in the area, writes Peter Apps, alarming neighboring countries, “particularly the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei, all of whom have competing territorial claims over waters that China claims for itself. But it also represents a major and quite deliberate challenge to the United States which, as an ally to all these nations, has essentially staked its own credibility on the issue.”

Parisa Hafezi

@PHREUTERS

#Sisi is running almost unchallenged after the other serious candidates were either arrested or intimidated: Preliminary results show Egypt's Sisi leading voting: newspaper https://reut.rs/2J4LmmU

5:38 AM - MAR 29, 2018

TECH

How a data mining giant got me wrong

I asked Arkansas-based Acxiom, which earns over $800 million a year selling consumer profiles to the world’s largest companies, what data and insights it held on me. The result of my inquiry shows how, even with little raw data, companies attempt to build detailed pictures of individuals’ finances, relationships, personal interests and purchasing tastes.

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