Capitalism
at it's finest...
Danielle Lei, the entrepreneurial San Francisco Girl Scout who made international headlines in
2014 with her sales table’s location — in front of a medical marijuana
dispensary — is back for another year and is already cleaning house.
Lei braved the oncoming winter storm Sunday to set up her booth in
front of The Green Cross dispensary — a permitted shop in the south of
San Francisco. Again, Lei cleaned up on dispensary customers, as
marijuana is a clinically proven appetite stimulant.
Lei reports selling a total of 208 boxes in about two hours Sunday —
nearly doubling her four-day sales campaign total to 560. “That’s pretty
cool,” Lei wrote The Green Cross. “ I would not have sold that many in
four days if I did not sell in front of your store.”
The latest Edward
Snowden revelation...
The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools
that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using "cookies" and
location data to pinpoint targets for government hacking and to bolster
surveillance.
The agency's internal presentation slides,
provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, show that when
companies follow consumers on the Internet to better serve them
advertising, the technique opens the door for similar tracking by the
government. The slides also suggest that the agency is using these
tracking techniques to help identify targets for offensive hacking
operations.
For years, privacy advocates have raised concerns about the use of
commercial tracking tools to identify and target consumers with
advertisements. The online ad industry has said its practices are
innocuous and benefit consumers by serving them ads that are more likely
to be of interest to them.
The revelation that the NSA is piggybacking on these commercial
technologies could shift that debate, handing privacy advocates a new
argument for reining in commercial surveillance.
