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MARCO_6138721
US Economy. The U.S. debt is $19 trillion. Most headlines focus on how much the United States owes China, which is one of the largest foreign owners. What many people don't know is that the Social Security Trust Fund, aka your retirement money, owns most of the national debt.
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MARCO_3466211
The interest income that the trust funds earn on their bonds, as well as the proceeds the trust funds will receive when their bonds are redeemed, will enable Social Security to keep paying full benefits until 2034. In 2034, the combined trust funds are projected to run out of Treasury bonds to cash in.
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MARCO_7828169
The 2014 report from the trustees of the Social Security program estimated that the trust fund reserves will run out in 2034. That means Social Security won't be able to pay full retirement benefits starting in 2033.
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MARCO_8039204
Meanwhile, the safety net is vanishing; in 2040, the Social Security trust fund is due to run out right as many of us hit retirement age. I call my midlife crisis Betty, says a 43-year-old filmmaker in Brooklyn, New York. Betty is on me about being single and broke. Not having money reaches deep into you, and it create...
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MARCO_8458415
Meanwhile, the safety net is vanishing; in 2040, the Social Security trust fund is due to run out right as many of us hit retirement age. I call my midlife crisis Betty, says a 43-year-old filmmaker in Brooklyn, New York. Betty is on me about being single and broke.
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MARCO_8535675
Under the current rules, and depending upon future economic growth, the Social Security Trust Fund is projected to be depleted sometime between 2042 and 2052. Once the Trust Fund is depleted, we get to the Unfunded (i.e. $13.6 Trillion) part of our Social Security future.
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CAR_23436be6ee56bc7a7d7e209465cba89153290617
Since recommendations of the Greenspan Commission were adopted in the early 1980s, Social Security payroll taxes have exceeded benefit payments. In FY2008, Social Security received $180 billion more in payroll taxes and accrued interest than it paid out in benefits. This annual surplus is credited to Social Security ...
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CAR_4d8e23fe50edf2b773c193b7307da35b7fa6ad09
Proponents of the current system argue if and when the Trust Fund runs out, there will still be the choice of raising taxes or cutting benefits, or both. Advocates of the current system say that the projected deficits in Social Security are identical to the 'prescription drug benefit' enacted in 2002. They say that dem...
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CAR_f6f34a9462d715b6575e71499e50bb3559b66f7f
Social Security benefits are paid from a combination of social security payroll taxes paid by current workers and interest income earned by the Social Security Trust Fund. According to the projections of the Social Security Administration, the Trust Fund will continue to show net growth until 2022 because the interest ...
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MARCO_1281885
And in yearsof a Social Security deficit, the trust fund will beused as the additional source of revenue needed topay benefits to retirees. Under a fully funded system,all benefits paid out to recipients come directly fromthe revenue in the trust fund.
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CAR_0f4b4230efc1b78d5a11d1ac95652db561930ae6
Peter A. Diamond and Peter R. Orszag proposed in their 2005 book Saving Social Security: A Balanced Approach that Social Security be stabilized by various tax and spend adjustments and gradually ending the process by which the general fund has been borrowing from payroll taxes. This requires increased revenues devoted ...
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CAR_498e338f9af826154207d5fdd949eee00c0db2cd
However, the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Associations said that the chained CPI does not account for seniors citizens' health care costs. Robert Reich, former United States Secretary of Labor under President Clinton, noted that typical seniors spend between 20 and 40 percent of their income on healt...
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CAR_8e4769ae45e0773644230a7faf3356f2ed5cead4
Johnson says Social Security is valuable and is fixable without raising taxes. He wants 'Social Security to reflect today's realities without breaking trust with retirees.' He supports raising the retirement age, multi-pronged means testing for Social Security recipients, and changing the escalator built into Social ...
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CAR_ed68c9257eca5b3e269306246103095e158d2b06
The trust funds run surpluses in that the amount paid in by current workers is more than the amount paid out to current beneficiaries. These surpluses are given to the U.S. Treasury (and thus become part of the general federal budget) in exchange for special U.S. government securities, which are deposited into the trus...
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CAR_ff9caf25c0a5731da1a74171c545cb94b15da3eb
Economist Alice M. Rivlin summarized major reform proposals in January 2009: 'Fixing Social Security is a relatively easy technical problem. It will take some combination of several much-discussed marginal changes: raising the retirement age gradually in the future (and then indexing it to longevity), raising the cap o...
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CAR_22f895f4e5ec232212f61ad953e022e274c52a6a
The CBO projected in 2010 that an increase in payroll taxes ranging from 1.6%–2.1% of the payroll tax base, equivalent to 0.6%–0.8% of GDP, would be necessary to put the Social Security program in fiscal balance for the next 75 years. In other words, raising the payroll tax rate to about 14.4% during 2009 (from the cur...
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CAR_acade4b8bfb4bbf8c2481bfed435653eca6d347e
In 2007, the Social Security Trustees suggested that either the payroll tax could increase to 16.41 percent in 2041 and steadily increased to 17.60 percent in 2081 or a cut in benefits by 25 percent in 2041 and steadily increased to an overall cut of 30 percent in 2081.
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CAR_c5c1523b14b651b69eb59acb643ba61153672486
The number of U.S. workers per retiree was 5.1 in 1960; this declined to 3.0 in 2009 and is projected to decline to 2.1 by 2030. The number of Social Security program recipients is expected to increase from 44 million in 2010 to 73 million in 2030. The present value of unfunded obligations under Social Security as of A...
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CAR_e5b525f8679f8c1bed961f5b34e2271e3725cd85
Expert panels across the political spectrum have argued for a combination of revenue increases and expense reductions to reduce the budget deficit and future debt increases. However, the nature and balance of these measures varies considerably. Economist Bruce Bartlett wrote in 2009 that without benefit cuts in Medicar...
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MARCO_1107164
If we keep the cap, the ceiling, on taxable earnings where it is $113,700 in 2013 we need to raise the payroll tax rate from 12.4 percent to 16.4 percent immediately and permanently to make Social Security solvent, assuming we do nothing else.
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CAR_1543e810e31ad80b08f252ae8d6182c3c529da0f
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) is a Regulation by which the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission intend to strengthen and unify data protection for individuals within the European Union (EU). It also addresses export of personal data outside the EU. The ...
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CAR_f9a402f7ded5504c6e87b4e3a8ce871db97f1bf1
The proposed new EU data protection regime extends the scope of the EU data protection law to all foreign companies processing data of EU residents. It provides for a harmonization of the data protection regulations throughout the EU, thereby making it easier for non-European companies to comply with these regulations;...
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MARCO_1109620
In May 2018, a European privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is due to take effect. The GDPR imposes new rules on companies, government agencies, non-profits, and other organizations that offer goods and services to people in the European Union (EU), or that collect and analyze data tied to EU re...
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MARCO_4334930
For the economics term, see Gross regional domestic product. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) is a regulation by which the European Parliament, the European Council and the European Commission intend to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the European ...
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MARCO_6880924
Spiceworks Originals. On May 25, 2018, the European Union (EU) will implement the general data protection regulation (GDPR) and the E-Privacy regulation, two new data privacy laws that set stronger rules around how businesses collect and protect EU customer data.
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MARCO_1312919
A new right to data portability. One of the responses of the GDPR to the so-called Big Data trend is the creation of a new right to data portability that aims to increase user choice of online services. format_quoteWhere feasible, the controller may even be required to transmit the data directly to a competitor.
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MARCO_4334934
Top 10 operational impacts of the GDPR: Part 8 - Pseudonymization. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is set to replace the Data Protection Directive 95/46/ec effective May 25, 2018. The GDPR is directly applicable in each member state and will lead to a greater degree of data protection harmonization across...
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MARCO_8090944
what is gdpr? The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was adopted by the EU in April 2016 and will replace the current EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC. The GDPR introduces new obligations to data processors and data controllers, including those based outside the EU.
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MARCO_8112914
The GDPR expands the privacy rights of EU individuals and places new obligations on all organizations that market, track, or handle EU personal data. Salesforce is committed to helping our customers comply with the GDPR through our robust privacy and security protections. See how Salesforce embraces GDPR regulations.
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MARCO_995083
This regulation is called the EU General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, and is aimed at guiding and regulating the way companies across the world will handle their customers' personal information and creating strengthened and unified data protection for all individuals within the EU.
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CAR_4b135f2d5b57633ae3f8a35e00a49ec60263093d
In the digital information era, where social networks are increasingly used for sharing, communicating and entertaining, citizens' fundamental rights can be at risk. The creation of accounts that reveal data and personal information may lead to a violation of the right to intimacy, privacy, image and honour. The risk i...
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CAR_5cc1cc0fb541686e5f6d045f1866e6f4fa354dcd
Solutions to privacy in cloud computing include policy and legislation as well as end users' choices for how data is stored. The cloud service provider needs to establish clear and relevant policies that describe how the data of each cloud user will be accessed and used. Cloud service users can encrypt data that is pr...
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CAR_801645c8124f50e61922ae98ff83eeaafcedbe82
Social networking sites offer greater security risks to personal electronic information because sensitive, private or confidential information such as personal identifiers are routinely used to create public profiles. Many websites give options to suppress the amount of personal information revealed through the customi...
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CAR_bd95fbb04802baff2a1d66b68fad8b480278fe53
The relative security of cloud computing services is a contentious issue that may be delaying its adoption. Physical control of the Private Cloud equipment is more secure than having the equipment off site and under someone else's control. Physical control and the ability to visually inspect data links and access ports...
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MARCO_8810548
He says that any personal information can become sensitive information and the massive influx of personal data into social networks is creating a perfect storm for advanced, accessible technology to drive into the data cloud and emerge with our privacy in shambles.
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CAR_97f7cfe35b34daa2491dc8454e571e87cbee51a0
The regulation applies if the data controller or processor (organization) or the data subject (person) is based in the EU. Furthermore (and unlike the current Directive) the Regulation also applies to organizations based outside the European Union if they process personal data of EU residents. The regulation does not a...
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MARCO_1109618
GDPR defines personal data as any information relating to an already identified individual or that can identify an individual either directly or indirectly. Does that help? Sam: Not completely, so is a person's name considered personal information? Nigel: Yes. Sam: Great, can you give me the rest of the list?
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MARCO_1109622
Personal data, in the context of GDPR, covers a much wider range of information that can include social media posts, photographs, lifestyle preferences and transaction histories. And now, thanks to the German Pirate Party, even IP addresses. In other words, all PII is personal data but not all personal data is PII. Bui...
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MARCO_4281435
What is a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA)? A PIA is a tool used to assess the privacy impact and risks to the personally identifiable information (PII) stored, used, and exchanged by information systems. A PIA evaluates privacy implications when information systems are created, when existing systems are significantly m...
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MARCO_4334929
Commentary: Definitions in general. As set out in this Chapter, many of the core definitions that organisations may already be familiar with under the Directive are unchanged under the GDPR. For example, anything that is treated as personal data under the Directive is still treated as personal data under the GDPR.
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CAR_6c47eb74e459d7c83ccda62959ea9c64c255e4bc
Since early 2012, the European Union has been working on a General Data Protection Regulation to replace the Data Protection Directive and harmonise data protection and privacy law. On 20 October 2013, a committee at the European Parliament backed the measure, which, if it is enacted, could require American companies t...
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CAR_7d2ea6ae66a2a7a0b6d7d5d317054da39bb61a9a
In 1995 the European Union adopted the European Data Protection Directive (Directive 95/46/EC) to regulate the processing of personal data. This is now considered a component of human rights law. The new European Proposal for General Data Protection Regulation provides protection and exemption for companies listed as '...
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CAR_c245a3f333f8a0b6cc2bf7ec9f63867677e35812
Because of this, in theory the transfer of personal information from the EU to the US is prohibited when equivalent privacy protection is not in place in the US. American companies that would work with EU data must comply with the Safe Harbour framework. The core principles of data protected are limited collection, ...
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CAR_f16e6067f3feb50c5c6e49aa9531fbb5047a5916
The regulatory differences on the right to be forgotten along with numerous other data protection rights have shaped discussions and negotiations on trans-Atlantic data privacy regulations. A case in point is the EU and the United States' endeavors to develop the Safe Harbor agreement, a data transfer pact that enables...
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MARCO_8216375
This means that if any EU or non-EU company wants to stay in business, as controller or processor, it will have to implement the necessary controls to ensure that they comply with the EU GDPR, because the fines can be applied to both controllers and processors.
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CAR_0095043b2a45b7cfb74b5b62090ba002a4b8628b
Privacy activists and researchers have noted that the sharing of images on social networks may compromise the privacy of people depicted in them. Further, most current social networks afford their users little control over content that they did not post themselves. In its privacy policy, Facebook states that any inform...
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CAR_1cd5ff24ac7c2e3f4201e3d976164340cb5822b0
Social networking sites vary in the levels of privacy offered. For some social networking sites like Facebook, providing real names and other personal information is encouraged by the site(onto a page known as a ‘Profile‘). This information usually consists of birth date, current address, and telephone number(s). So...
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CAR_25387db808afa7bd455e54d7f7622239a553afe9
Privacy on social networking sites can be undermined by many factors. For example, users may disclose personal information, sites may not take adequate steps to protect user privacy, and third parties frequently use information posted on social networks for a variety of purposes. 'For the Net generation, social network...
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CAR_7bf8e5ba0ede41788e45496b46b21abc6632b0a7
Social networking sites try to get users to use their real names, interests, and locations, rather than pseudonyms. These website's leaders believe this makes the social networking experience more engaging for users. On the other hand, uploaded photographs or unguarded statements can be identified to an individual, who...
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CAR_b95c63a9b9057b9853cc4e5fb938989f513bbd2d
For example, e-mails can be encrypted (via S/MIME or PGP) and anonymizing proxies or anonymizing networks like I2P and Tor can be used to prevent the internet service providers from knowing which sites one visits and with whom one communicates. Covert collection of personally identifiable information has been identifie...
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CAR_3fbc02ea03323aa337d279c9078b5aecab5de7d7
Friendica was cited in January 2012 by Infoshop News as an 'alternative to Google+ and Facebook' to be used on the Occupy Nigeria movement. In January 2012 Free Software Foundation Europe's blog cited Friendica as a reasonable alternative to centralized and controlled social networks such as Facebook or Google+. Biblic...
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CAR_6bca7c398960273b4182833a4b820348ce35d009
Social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors. Privacy concerns with social networking services is a subset of data privacy, involving the right of mandating personal privacy concerning sto...
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CAR_75c414321bcd116debde9985a0859b0656387186
Social networking currently provides more information and features than original function of allowing individuals to connect with their peers. Social networking sites have a large amount of data and records from billions of people, and construct recommendations used by enterprises, small business, and individuals. 'Fac...
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CAR_8cbdbf235687fd9fae5a1e61d8ed4c27ad9f0405
People with only a casual concern for Internet privacy need not achieve total anonymity. Internet users may protect their privacy through controlled disclosure of personal information. The revelation of IP addresses, non-personally-identifiable profiling, and similar information might become acceptable trade-offs for t...
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CAR_8dc3c361cec5fc6f5993e2dc1bf4856986b0fc52
Many social networks provide an online environment for people to communicate and exchange personal information for dating purposes. Intentions can vary from looking for a one time date, short-term relationships, and long-term relationships. Most of these social networks, just like online dating services, require users ...
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CAR_41c1df107b7027b04b3a96e0cadcecd0f34021df
A byproduct of social media addiction is a syndrome known as fear of missing out, or FOMO. This syndrome occurs through a user's repetitive and obsessive status-checking of 'friend' status updates and posts related to social events or celebrations resulting in a feeling of being 'left out'. There is a converse, polar-...
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CAR_43ff1c0a9af250ae161870ea580dfb139e76f7b1
Recent studies have shown a connection between online social media such as Facebook use to addictive behaviors, emotion regulation, impulse control, and substance abuse. Results from a survey of university undergraduates showed that almost 10% met criteria for what investigators describe as 'disordered social networkin...
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CAR_a78a2f41b72eda46b9b17eee5420eca6232cdb55
Social network addiction is a dependence of people by connection, updating and control of their and their friends social network page. The correlation between the social network use and a decreasing of offline social relationships is a complex issue, depending not only from the time spent on them but also from the moti...
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CAR_cfc17a5422c98785d8da6e22bff60a8a66596b0c
A more recent addiction that is being looked into is Internet addiction (also known as pathological Internet use). This addiction has become more prevalent in younger generations as computer technologies advance. When people suffer from internet addiction they are unable to control their use of the Internet. This can ...
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MARCO_4630517
Social anxiety and the need for social assurance are also associated with problematic use of Facebook to the point where Facebook use can become an addiction[3], and has even been shown to activate the same brain areas as addictive drugs such as cocaine[4]!
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In 2013, the movement began with the use of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter on social media, after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African-American teen Trayvon Martin. Black Lives Matter became nationally recognized for its street demonstrations following the 2014 deaths of two African America...
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CAR_6a6e081e7c4a04bcc492cb9ba9afa14b28f02a70
In 2013, Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi formed the Black Lives Matter Network. Alicia Garza described the network as an online platform that existed to provide activists with a shared set of principles and goals. Local Black Lives Matter chapters are asked to commit to the organization's list of guidin...
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In the summer of 2013, after George Zimmerman's acquittal for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, the movement began with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. The movement was co-founded by three black community organizers: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi. Garza, Cullors and Tometi met through 'Black Organi...
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In response to the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the Black Lives Matter movement began in 2013, and rapidly expanded in response to subsequent shooting incidents, such as the shooting of Michael Brown. In response to that shooting, protests were held around the country in 2014, most notably in Ferguson, Missouri.
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MARCO_801480
Black Lives Matter is an international activist movement, originating in the African-American community, that campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards black people. BLM regularly holds protests speaking out against police killings of black people, and broader issues such as racial profiling, police brutal...
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CAR_13dc65331f11fb62f340167578ad33e191288a5e
The journalist continued working on the Trayvon Martin case when she started working for NBC News. Trayvon Martin is a 17-year-old African American teenager who was fatally shot by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. The neighborhood watch volunteer called Sanford police to report Martin, who he said appeared 'suspi...
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CAR_2be8f82bc9f5be2c938e5167c8eb6aa4c629e2c2
The following is a timeline of the events surrounding the death of teenager Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida. Martin was shot and killed by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman during a physical altercation. Zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder in April 2012, and found not gu...
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CAR_4e358ef6ab22fb0e27d744fd0669d2335d9c4f46
Trayvon Benjamin Martin (February 5, 1995 – February 26, 2012) was an African American from Miami Gardens, Florida, who, at 17 years old, was fatally shot by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, in Sanford, Florida. Martin, who was serving a school suspension, had gone with his father on a visit to his fat...
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On February 26, 2012, Zimmerman fatally shot 17-year-old African American high school student Trayvon Martin in The Retreat at Twin Lakes community in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman was the neighborhood watch coordinator for the gated community where Martin was temporarily staying and where the shooting took place. The Tw...
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CAR_e4750815a6d6caa9998aca6ba12587138eb48751
On 26 February 2012, Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old boy who had been visiting his father in a gated community in Sanford, was walking back from a nearby store. A civilian neighborhood watch captain, 28-year-old George Zimmerman, called Sanford Police from his truck to report Martin's behavior as suspicious. Du...
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In Florida, a task force examining the law heard testimony that the law is 'confusing'. Those testifying to the task force include Buddy Jacobs, a lawyer representing the Florida Prosecuting Attorney's Association. Jacobs recommended the law's repeal, feeling that modifying the law would not fix its problems. Florid...
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In February 2012, Today aired a story package that included an edited version of a 9-1-1 call made by George Zimmerman minutes prior to his confrontation with Trayvon Martin that resulted in the unarmed Florida teenager being shot and killed, which (as described in a Washington Post article criticizing the editing of t...
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George Zimmerman auctioning off gun used to kill Trayvon Martin. George Zimmerman is trying to sell the gun he killed unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin with. Zimmerman shot Martin in 2012, but was later acquitted on the basis of self-defense. Mark Strassmann has more.
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But Martin family lawyer Benjamin Crump told Fox the sale was offensive, outrageous and insulting. Trayvon Martin was walking home from a shop in Sanford, Florida, in February 2012 when there was an altercation with Mr Zimmerman. Mr Zimmerman said he had fired in self-defence. He was charged and acquitted of second-deg...
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Juror B37 spoke exclusively to CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 about the case She says Zimmerman wanted to do good but went overboard George Zimmerman didn't do anything unlawful and was justified in shooting 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, according to one of the jurors who acquitted Zimmerman.
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Initially, reports of what happened next differed widely among sources and witnesses, particularly with regards to whether Brown was coming towards Wilson when the shots were actually fired. At noon on , Wilson drove up to Brown and Johnson as they were walking in the middle of Canfield Drive and ordered them to move o...
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On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager, was fatally shot by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson while on duty. Chief of Police Tom Jackson claimed in a news conference that Brown had been a suspect in a 'strong-arm' robbery, but later stated that the robbery was not connected to Officer Wilson's intera...
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In August 2014, Darren Wilson, a white police officer of Ferguson, Missouri shot and killed Michael Brown, an 18-year-old unarmed black man who had robbed a nearby convenience store fifteen minutes earlier. While a grand jury investigation found that Wilson had acted in self-defense after Brown attacked him on two sepa...
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The #HandsUpDontShoot hashtag was created after the police shooting of Michael Brown and the grand jury's decision to not indict Darren Wilson, the white Ferguson police officer that shot Brown, on November 24, 2015. Witnesses claimed that Brown had his hands up and was surrendering when Wilson fatally shot him. Howeve...
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The shooting of Michael Brown occurred on August 9, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri, a northern suburb of St. Louis. Brown, an 18-year-old African American, was a suspect in a strong-arm robbery of a convenience store. Brown was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, a 28-year-old police officer in an encounter that took place a s...
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Along with community organizers and friends Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi, Cullors founded Black Lives Matter. The three started the movement because of frustration over George Zimmerman's acquittal in the shooting of Trayvon Martin. Cullors wrote the hashtag to corroborate Garza's use of the phrase in making a Faceboo...
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Garza, with Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors, birthed the Black Lives Matters movement. Garza is credited with inspiring the slogan when, after the July 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman, she posted on Facebook: 'Black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter, Black Lives Matter' which Cullors then shared with ...
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Black Lives Matter, a campaign against violence and systemic racism towards African Americans, has been influenced strongly by Social Media Activism with leaders, hashtags, and policy proposals brought forward because of Social Media. The hashtag #blacklivesmatter was created in 2013 by Patrice Cullors, Alicia Garza, a...
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Garza wrote the words Black Lives Matter on social media, and Cullors followed with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. Later that day, they decided to start a movement, on the streets and online.
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On May 26, 2016, Louisiana was the first state to add police officers and firefighters to their state hate crime statute, when Governor John Bel Edwards signed an amendment from the legislature into law. This amendment was added, in part, as a response to the Black Lives Matter movement, which seeks to end police bruta...
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Blue Lives Matter is a pro-police movement in the United States. It was started after the killings of NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu in Brooklyn, New York, on December 20, 2014, after they were ambushed in their patrol car. Blue Lives Matter was formed in reaction to the Black Lives Matter movement, which s...
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White Lives Matter is an activist group created in response to Black Lives Matter. In August 2016, the Southern Poverty Law Center added 'White Lives Matter' to its list of hate groups. The group has also been active in England.
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There have been many reactions to the Black Lives Matter movement. The U.S. population's perception of Black Lives Matter varies considerably by race. The phrase All Lives Matter sprang up as a response to the Black Lives Matter movement, but has been criticized for dismissing or misunderstanding the message of Black L...
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The phrase All Lives Matter sprang up as a response to the Black Lives Matter movement, but has been criticized for dismissing or misunderstanding the message of Black Lives Matter. Following the shooting of two police officers in Ferguson, the hashtag Blue Lives Matter was created by supporters of the police.
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The internet facilitates the spread of the message 'All Lives Matter' as a response to the Black Lives Matter hashtag as well as the 'Blue Lives Matter' hashtag as a response to Beyonce's halftime performance speaking out against police brutality.
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Following the shooting of two police officers in Ferguson and in response to BLM, the hashtag [[Blue Lives Matter|#BlueLivesMatter]] was created by supporters of the police. Following this, Blue Lives Matter became a pro-police movement in the United States. It expanded after the killings of American police officers.
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On December 20, 2014, in the wake of the killings of officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, a group of law enforcement officers formed Blue Lives Matter to counter media reports that they perceived to be anti-police. Blue Lives Matter is made up of active and retired law enforcement officers. The current national spoke...
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Originating in New York City in December 2014, Blue Lives Matter NYC is an organization and current nationwide movement that was created to help law enforcement officers and their families during their times of need. Sergeant Joey Imperatrice along with Officers Chris Brinkley and Carlos Delgado felt 'compelled to show...
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Opposition gatherings are frequently the subject of brutal attacks by the police force, such as the crackdown on an 11 March 2007 Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) rally. In the events, party leader Morgan Tsvangirai and 49 other opposition activists were arrested and severely beaten by the police. Edward Chikombo, ...
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On , two NYPD officers were shot and killed in their police car in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The suspected gunman, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, posted days earlier on Instagram his intention to kill police officers in response to the killings of Brown and Eric Garner. The suspect, who had a long criminal record and had shot ...
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On December 20, two NYPD officers were killed in an ambush in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The suspected gunman, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 'declared his intention on his Instagram account to kill police officers as retribution for the recent police killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner'. The suspect, who has a long crimi...
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Black Lives Matter, an activist movement that was formed to campaign against racism and what its members consider police brutality against African Americans, has contributed to a revitalization and re-examining of the Black Feminist movement. The movement itself was started by three black women, Alicia Garza, Patrisse ...
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Black Lives Matter incorporates those traditionally on the margins of black freedom movements. The organization's website, for instance, states that Black Lives Matter is 'a unique contribution that goes beyond extrajudicial killings of Black people by police and vigilantes' and, embracing intersectionality, that 'Blac...
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Black Lives Matter (BLM) is an international activist movement, originating in the African-American community, that campaigns against violence and systemic racism toward black people. BLM regularly holds protests against police killings of black people and broader issues of racial profiling, police brutality, and perce...
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A presidential candidate wants to push brown immigrants out of the country. An entire Black Lives Matter movement takes hold over the issue of police profiling and inequality a reflection of how America is once again in the grips of a profound struggle over race.
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