Billie Winner-Davis, Reality Winner's mother, told Business Insider on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, is attempting legal representation to aid the former Air Force language analyst contractor and Kingsville native Reality Winner with her case.
Winner pleaded guilty in 2018 to leaking classified National Security Agency information on Russia's alleged efforts to interfere with the 2016 election. She was found guilty of violating the U.S. Espionage Act and sentenced to five years in prison at the Federal Medical Center-Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas.
In 2016 following her separation from six years of active duty, Winner was hired by Pluribus International Corporation under an NSA contract to work out of Fort Gordon, Georgia.
According to ABC News, Winner printed a classified report detailing how Russian hackers allegedly “executed cyber espionage operations” on local election systems and mailed the documents to The Intercept.
She was arrested on June 3, 2017.
Amazing! Thank you. My daughter Reality Leigh Winner is yet another victim of this admin. Doing hard time for bringing the truth to light. #FreeRealityWinnerhttps://t.co/wU0sg3LeRs
Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty to campaign violations and tax fraud in 2018, began serving his sentence in May 2019 at the federal penitentiary in Otisville, New York.
He has been under house arrest since July over coronavirus concerns.
Military.com stated that Reality’s mother sent a Twitter message that said “Cohen has asked another attorney to look at the case and for opportunities to help.”
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Google admits they were collecting data in Hamburg, Germany. They also admit that the DPA (data protection authority) asked to audit the WiFi data that our Street View cars collects.
What they fail to tell you is, that in Australia they were collecting WiFi data from their Street View cars as well.
EFA (Electronic Frontiers Australia) and the APF (Australian Privacy Foundation) wrote a joint Email complaining to Google as well.
In an Email, EFA writes : "Why this internet company has been collecting information about household wireless networks ?"
The EFA and the Australian Privacy Foundation were concerned that the data gathered could during this process could be misused."
EFA vice-chairman Geordie Guy is concerned by this because devices such as phones and printers are often connected to the internet in many households.
In addition he made the following comments :
"Google may well publish that I have something in my house made by Cisco, something in my house made by Linxus, something in my house made by Netcom, etc."
"There are some manufacturers out there that only produce one type of device, so you would know that that was the device in the house."
Google has a lot of information about everybody. This is a company which retains results of what we search for for a year on the internet. This is an organization that has access to a lot of people's email addresses and a lot of information about the online community in general.
Google refused to talk about this issue. Instead the internet company has pointed to previous blog posts it issued in response to European concerns.
The blogs say the WiFi data is used by Google to improve its location-based services.
NOW TO MY POINT :
1st, Google says " A year later, when our mobile team started a project to collect basic WiFi network data like SSID information and MAC addresses."
To us (MAINLY ME) this seems like wardriving. Lets use a little common sense here. If Google had no intention of using this data why collect it ?
Did Google buckle under pressure when this information was disclosed to the general public or was it something else ?
2nd, After reading this story (I posted days ago) I was very concerned , but kinda shrugged it off. What I did not realize is that it was happening in Germany as well as Australia. Now I am "Worried". If Google is getting so big, where one hand does not know what the other is doing, then it might be time to break this company in a couple of pieces where it is manageable.
3rd, I do not believe Google has told us everything. Full Disclosure is what we should be asking. Tell us exactly, what is going on and WHERE ?
Google nicely omitted the fact this was happening elsewhere in the world. They also nicely omitted the fact there were many complaints about their "WiFi Data Collection" process.
Google engineers admit " We are acutely aware that we failed badly in our trust."
Keep your apology Google, and just tell the users what you are doing.
Exactly, what are you doing with your nose in our WiFi ?
Update : Google has been collecting them from Wi-Fi networks not protected by passwords–in the United States, Germany, France, Brazil, Hong Kong and elsewhere for the last 3 years !
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That Rose Garden event — there's been a great deal of speculation about it — my wife Karen and I were there and honored to be there. Many of the people who were at that event, Susan, were actually tested for coronavirus, and it was an outdoor event, which all of our scientists r...
Update : Google has been collecting them from Wi-Fi networks not protected by passwords–in the United States, Germany, France, Brazil, Hong Kong and elsewhere for the last 3 years !