"Right To Know" Act -- Jane Henson Dies -- Saudi Arabia Will Let Women Ride...But Only For Fun -- What Goes On In North Korea -- Israel Launches Rockets To Gaza -- The Family Protection Ordinance -- Abortion In Ala. Just Got Harder -- In School Safety Question Are Guns The Answer?
NEW CALIFORNIA "RIGHT TO KNOW" ACT WOULD LET CONSUMERS FIND OUT WHO HAS THEIR PERSONAL DATA AND GET A COPY OF IT
Let’s face it: most of us have no idea how companies are gathering and sharing our personal data. Colossal data brokers are sucking up personal facts about Americans from sourcesthey refuse to disclose. Digital giants like Facebook are teaming up with data brokers inunsettling new ways. Privacy policies for companies are difficult to read at best and can change in a heartbeat. And even savvy users are unlikely to fend off the snooping eyes of online trackers working to build profiles of our interests and web histories.
So what can we do about it? A new proposal in California, supported by a diverse coalition including EFF and the ACLU of Northern California, is fighting to bring transparency and access to the seedy underbelly of digital data exchanges. The Right to Know Act (AB 1291) would require a company to give users access to the personal data the company has stored on them—as well as a list of all the other companies with whom that original company has shared the users' personal data—when a user requests it. It would cover California residents and would apply to both offline and online companies. If you live in California, click here to support this bill.
'MUPPETS' JANE HENSON DIES AT 78
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Jane Henson, who with her future husband and fellow puppeteer Jim Henson was instrumental in bringing the Muppets to life in the 1950s on a TV station in Washington, D.C., died Tuesday at her home in Greenwich, Conn., after a long battle with cancer. She was 78.
Jane met Jim in a puppetry class in 1954 when she was a fine arts education major at the University of Maryland. While still an undergraduate, Jim was offered a job on NBC affiliate WRC-TV in Washington, and he asked Jane to join him as a co-performer and creator.
SAUDI ARABIA WILL LET WOMEN RIDE BICYCLES BUT ONLY FOR FUN
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Could Saudi Arabia's laws restricting the free movement of women be softening? Reports from the country's Al-Yawm newspaper suggest that women will now be able to ride bicycles and motorbikes in the Saudi kingdom.
NORTH KOREA DEFECTORS RETURN RHETORICAL FIRE
Seoul (CNN) -- The world knows North Korea for its loud and over-the-top warmongering rhetoric about the U.S. But the true war is being fought in whispers, across secret phone lines and smuggled radios. And it's those whispers that reveal how close the peninsula may be to an actual war.
"North Koreans want to go to war soon and unite the country. They want to get out of their difficult lives through war," said Kim Seong Min, with Free North Korea Radio. "North Koreans are not getting any information from the outside world. They think they will win if a war breaks out."
ISRAEL LAUNCHES AIR STRIKES ON GAZA
Israeli warplanes struck targets in the Gaza Strip today in response to rocket fire toward southern Israel.
They were the first air strikes launched by Israel since an informal ceasefire ended eight days of cross-border fighting between Israel and Hamas-ruled Gaza.
An Israeli military statement said its planes targeted "two extensive terror sites" with "accurate hits".
GEORGIA TOWN TO REQUIRE GUN OWNERSHIP
NELSON — After weeks of national media attention and debate among residents, members of the Nelson City Council stuck to their guns Monday and unanimously voted to enact a law that requires every head of household within its city limits to own a firearm.
The Family Protection Ordinance is a brief two-paragraph piece of legislation, which City Councilman Duane Chronic said Monday was “copied and pasted” from a similar law passed by the city of Kennesaw some 30 years ago.
The Family Protection Ordinance is a brief two-paragraph piece of legislation, which City Councilman Duane Chronic said Monday was “copied and pasted” from a similar law passed by the city of Kennesaw some 30 years ago.
ALA. LAWMAKERS TIGHTEN RULES FOR ABORTION CLINICS
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers late Tuesday gave final passage to a measure placing stricter regulations on clinics that provide abortions.
The state House voted 68-21 to give final passage to the Women's Health and Safety Act. The vote came hours after the state Senate voted 20-10 to approve the bill after amending the measure to require clinics to tell patients what medications they had received.
NRA DETAILS PLAN FOR ARMED TEACHERS IN SCHOOLS
WASHINGTON — With the Senate set to debate gun control this month, a National Rifle Association task force released a 225-page report on Tuesday that called for armed police officers, security guards or staff members in every American school, and urged states to loosen gun restrictions to allow trained teachers and administrators to carry weapons.
Asa Hutchinson, a former Republican congressman from Arkansas who led the task force, unveiled the report at a packed news conference with unusually heavy security, including a bomb-sniffing yellow Labrador retriever. A dozen officers in plain clothes and uniforms stood watch as he spoke; one warned photographers to “remain stationary” during the event.
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