Why It Still Feels Like Facebook Is Tracking You, Even After All the Privacy Measures – WSJ

Facebook Inc. has spent the better part of a year telling its users, Congress and the readers of this paper that we’re in charge of our personal data and the ads we see. The network has streamlined its privacy settings, shared more details about how data is used and highlighted how its ad controls work. If we take advantage of all these privacy controls, it shouldn’t still feel as…

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Trump Proposes Cutting State Department Budget by 37% – WSJ

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is proposing deep cuts in U.S. diplomatic and foreign-aid funding while dramatically increasing defense expenditures, a bid to fundamentally shift the emphasis of U.S. foreign policy that has sparked fierce criticism from lawmakers and international-affairs experts. The White House has proposed a spending cut of 37% to the State Department and U.S….

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Bonfire of the Intelligence Vanities – WSJ

Putin is the winner as Washington melts down over Russian hacking. A part of the declassified version Intelligence Community Assessment on Russia’s efforts to interfere with the U.S. political process is photographed in Washington, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated Jan. 8, 2017 10:20 p.m. ET 721 COMMENTS What a spectacle. Two weeks before a peaceful…

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