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When your alarm went off this morning, the first thing you did was check your phone to see how many hours you had slept on your sleep tracking app. The next step in your morning routine was to throw on your smart watch and start your day (hopefully you’ll hit 10,000 steps). At work you logged into your employer-sponsored wellness program and input your workouts for the week. Then, because it was such a stressful day at work, you took fifteen minutes during lunch to use your mental health app and follow a guided meditation. Finally, it was time to head home. After looking up the most affordable pricing option online for your prescription, you make a quick stop at the pharmacy and use a coupon you printed out at work. Without realizing it, you spent the day generating health data. It may also surprise you that most, if not all, of that health data is not protected by Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), but instead falls into one of the current regulatory gaps for personal health data.

FTC Enforcement Action Under the Health Breath Notification Rule

Last week the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a major health privacy enforcement action against GoodRx, a digital health platform, for sharing personal data with third parties without notifying its users. Many aspects of the complaint and proposed order signify the FTC’s increasingly stronger approach to health privacy enforcement, and it couldn’t be timelier. Digital health privacy has become a pressing issue as many consumers use mobile health apps, telehealth platforms, fitness trackers, and other websites that collect health data daily. The mismanagement or breach of sensitive health data can cause harms ranging from stigma and humiliation to financial and reputational injuries.

Many of these apps, platforms and companies fall outside HIPAA’s narrow scope. HIPAA’s privacy requirements only apply to covered entities like healthcare providers, health plans, and clearinghouses, as well as business associates that assist a covered entity in transmitting Protected Health Information (PHI). PHI is also narrowly defined to only include information generated by a covered entity. If, for example, a patient or consumer “discloses PHI to a third-party, non-covered entity, the information is no longer protected by HIPAA.” As a result, there is a tremendous amount of health data that HIPAA does not regulate. 

Instead, the collection and use of non-HIPAA-covered health data is primarily regulated (when it is regulated at all) through the FTC’s consumer protection authorities. Section 5 of the FTC Act empowers the FTC to prevent and protect consumers from unfair and deceptive trade practices. In the health data sector, the FTC has brought enforcement actions under Section 5 for deceptive practices. In these cases, the unlawful deception often relies on a “broken promises theory”—i.e., a violation of a privacy policy that was communicated to the consumer. However, these actions have been limited to situations where there were expressly communicated privacy policies. As it relates to data privacy generally, the FTC has brought enforcement actions under their Section 5…

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Have you ever made your own herbal infusions? Or considered the many wonderful benefits that herbal infusions have to offer? If you are a fan of herbal healing than you are in for a treat! Making your own herbal infusion tea is a fun process that you can do easily on the homestead. Follow along for the how-to!

We’re doing a whole series on How To Make Herbal Remedies!  Stay tuned and learn how to make:

Herbal Extracts

Herbal Salves

Herbal Infusions

Herbal Tea

Herbal Tinctures

Herbal Poultices

 

How to Make Herbal Infusions:

Consider herbal infusions like tea on steroids… but if steroids were good for you. You get maximum benefits from all the herbs in a more concentrated solution. Wonderful! They are also very easy to make. Similar to tea, you steep dry herbs in hot water and allow the two to soak together. However, infusions are even more potent and should steep for a much longer period of time.

To make Herbal Infusions you will need:

• Dried herbs of choice – flowers and leafy herbs work well for infusions. (learn how to dry herbs here)
• Mason jar – or any air tight jar
• cheesecloth or tea strainer
• bowl
• ladle
• hot pad

 

1. Pour dried herbs into a jar.

2. Add hot water.

The water should be on a low boil. Be sure to use a hot pad beneath the jar for safety. I stuck a ladle in mine to help direct the flow of the water and prevent breakage. Use a funnel if necessary.

 

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3. The Infusion process.

Seal the jar TIGHT! Allow to sit 4-10 hours. This is simple, let it sit overnight. Keep the cats and children away from the jar, it’s hot!

4. Strain the infused herb.

Strain the herb into a new jar, or over a bowl. Use the cheese cloth or a tea strainer.

Try to knead the herb to extract more from it.

5. Done and ready to drink.

Consume your herbal infusions within 3 days of making.

If you can’t drink fast enough then pour them back into the earth, or use them in your next bath. Never let your water go to waste!

Enjoy the many wonderful healing benefits.

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To learn more about herbal infusions, you can hear what the wise women Susun Weed has to say. I just love her.

Herbal Infusions are a wonderful beverage to drink for an herbal remedy that serves medicinal benefits. Let us know how your own recipe went,…

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Consumer products using GPT-3 have captured the attention of the tech world and beyond. It can write up news hits on Stock prices, write quick poems about anything you want in the style of Dr. Dre, and might give you the right directions for coding or cooking. It’s fun, extremely impressive, and way too easy.

There’s been voracious debate about how it will impact online search platforms, education, and other businesses. It’s been given transformational funding of 10 billion dollars from Microsoft, and big-tech competitors Facebook and Google are treating it as a big threat by acting fast with competitors. Lawmakers at the federal and state level have used them to write bills and generated substantial attention doing so. 

At the end of the day, as with almost all AI tools, it’s nothing but a tool used in social, political, and historical context. In some contexts, it can be incredibly helpful – bridging gaps in literacy, possibly assisting in future diagnoses for overworked doctors, and helping people get a first draft of an e-mail. In some contexts, it will be used for immense and immeasurable harm, and could help people carry out scams and undermine essential pillars of democracy.

Less attention has been paid to this role products developed from GPT-3 and other large language models will play in the increasingly weaponized information ecosystem. Misinformation, disinformation, scams, and the general glut of content published on websites to feed the surveillance advertising ecosystems will be supercharged by automated systems that can generate cognizable text combined with other tools like robovoices, robotexts, or deepfake. Currently, regulators and legislators have not meaningfully limited or reined in the harm caused by any of these three effects.

Chat GPT will make it easier to write phishing attempts, those scams where the bad actor emails or texts you something about an order or as your loved one or boss to get you to click on something and divulge valuable and personal information by appearing as a trusted source. A 2021 study completed by Singapore’s Government Technology Agency illustrated that phishing attempts made by GPT-3 were more successful in tricking receivers into clicking on the email and divulging information than human-made phishing attempts. It will also make it easier to make variations of the same e-mail, which can stymie filters. Some of the most harmful content might be limited through filters. For example, Chat GPT refuses to write a “phishing” email but will write an email to your grandmother asking her to send money to any website. It will also create quicker or more aggressive or simply different variations.

Scamming via robotext and robocall will also get easier. According to a recent report by the Electronic Privacy Information Center and National Consumer Law Center, over one billion scam robocalls aimed to steal money from unsuspecting consumers are made each month. Products using GPT-3 and subsequent large language models can create quick and diverse human-sounding “scripts” that can be fed through an AI voice generator. 

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This post is part of a running blog series on Section 702 ahead of its reauthorization deadline in December 2023. In this series, EPIC will dive deeper into Section 702 and the need for significant reform.

What is Section 702?

In the wake of the Church Committee’s revelations of widespread abuses by intelligence agencies, Congress enacted the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to authorize and regulate electronic surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes. In 2008, following public outcry over an expansive and secretive post-9/11 surveillance program targeting international communications from within the United States, Congress passed the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, thus preserving part of this program. Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act authorizes surveillance programs targeting non-U.S. persons reasonably believed to be outside the United States to acquire “foreign intelligence information” with the compelled cooperation of U.S. service providers.[1]

Unlike traditional FISA surveillance, programs authorized under Section 702 do not involve Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) oversight of individual surveillance orders. Instead, the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence jointly authorize these programs and submit an annual “certification” to the FISC attesting that “a significant purpose of the acquisition is to obtain foreign intelligence information” and that acquisition will comply with certain statutory limitations, such as those limiting targeting to non-U.S. persons outside the United States. The government need not show “probable cause,” establish that a target is an agent of a foreign power or engaged in criminal activity, or identify the specific places or facilities that will be monitored.

Along with this certification, the government provides the FISC with copies of its targeting procedures and minimization procedures. Targeting procedures detail how the government determines: 1) whether a given target is a non-U.S. person; 2) whether the target is believed to be outside the United States; 3) whether the target has foreign intelligence value; and 4) whether targeting this person will produce foreign intelligence information. Minimization procedures explain how agencies use, retain, and disseminate the data obtained through Section 702 programs.

If the FISC approves these procedures, the government is authorized to compel the cooperation of U.S. service providers (e.g., AT&T and Verizon) in acquiring communications associated with certain “selectors” (such as phone numbers, email addresses, IP addresses, etc.) that are believed to be associated with those non-U.S. person targets. The National Security Agency (NSA) has operated two programs to acquire communications under Section 702—“downstream” (previously called PRISM) and “upstream.”[2] Through downstream, the U.S. government sends directives to U.S.-based communications platform operators to acquire the communications to or from that selector. Meanwhile, through upstream, the government compels the assistance of providers that control the Internet “backbone” within the United States over which telephone and Internet communications transit.

Why Does Section 702 Need Reform?

Since its controversial inception, Section 702 has created a gap in the traditional FISA framework that allows the government to collect Americans’ information without adequate judicial process, and this gap has grown more alarming as the government has increasingly…

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Want to know how to make your own herbal poultice? If you need some homemade herbal remedies for your aches and pains, try this.

How to Make Herbal Poultice

Do you have any memories as a child when your mother used to put mashed herbs on your wound or sprain? If you have then I’m sure you’re wondering how it works and how it was done. Maybe I’m the odd one out, but when I was a child I was so intrigued, and I learned all there is to know about herbal poultices.

A poultice is a healing remedy for sprains or wounds that comes from herb oil and natural ingredients that you can find at home. Learn how to make them, and use them. This tutorial will teach you some survival 101

Find out how you can make a Comfrey Poultice with this DIY tutorial!

Comfrey is known for it’s healing and cell-regeneration qualities. Do not ingest comfrey, it is toxic to the liver. Read more facts here.

 

Here’s what you’ll need to make a Poultice

• Dried Comfrey Leaves (or other herbs of your choosing)
• Lavender Flower Powder
• Organic Muslin Bag
• Spoon
• Hand Blender

 

1. Cook and soften the herb.

Place a quarter of a small muslin bag of comfrey into a pan. Add water just enough to soften the comfrey and heat the mixture.

 

2. Blend and Mix.

Add lavender flower powder and hand blend it until it gets pasty.

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3. Stuff and Use.

Stuff the muslin bag with the mixture and it is ready to use!

 

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Want to see how to make your own poultice at home? Then watch this video tutorial from Cat the HerbalPrepper:

 

What do you think of this tutorial on how to make herbal poultice? Will you give it a try? Let us know how it went and share your experience with us in the comment section below.

Have any homesteading projects you’d like to share? Share it with us an we’ll give it a try. We’d love to know what you think!

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The agriculture industry is one of the largest in the world and it keeps on growing with new developments in technology. Today, you see agricultural businesses and farms actively use social media platforms and reach out to customers through their websites. It has quickly become one of the most effective ways to engage the consumer. This is why good web design in agriculture is now prioritized by many businesses.

It’s how you as an agriculture business owner can expand your target market and attract customers immediately. Now, this brings us to the question, what makes up an attractive agriculture web design?

Well, take a look at these 5 agriculture web designs that have managed to make an impression and find out what they all have in common!

The web design of Arla Foods UK has used big pictures of both people and animals to give their audience an idea of their products. Now, this agriculture business is already known across the globe and has dairy farms in many countries.

It doesn’t matter whether people are already familiar with the name or not, Arla in the UK has designed their web page in a way that engages new as well as old customers.

The use of large pictures and font is one thing that you will find in common in successful agriculture web designs. These can be of animals, the farmers, or farms, or just include them in your business logo. A striking agricultural brand logo design can also be highly effective in attracting attention if it’s designed well and features striking colors and imagery.

 

Usually, you will find a lot of agricultural web designs featuring horizontal layouts. This means that there might be one or two large headers on the home page with white space below or sometimes on the sides. By keeping the web design horizontal, you can keep things clear, and precise and also create a feeling of space and openness.

When you will go through Openfield’s web page, you can see how effective this is. There is a small tagline appearing on the header that is informational and welcomes customers as well. Its horizontal layout tells people as much as possible about Openfield, its processes, and new developments without having too much crammed into it.

Like this business, the Beck Ag website has also made good use of a minimalist design and horizontal webpage.

 

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Bird bath, bird house, and bird feeder are all essentials in keeping your feathered friends happy. Here’s how you can have the best bird bath, bird house, and bird refuge on the block!

Bird Bath To Make Your Backyard A Destination For Birds

Aren’t wild birds simply awesome? Chirping beautiful songs in the morning as you wake up, visiting your bird bath in the evening for a little bath, nesting in the birdhouse you made yourself… doesn’t that sound amazing? To me it does, and to some of you it probably does too, for others, you just don’t understand the pleasure. Why don’t you just hang up a bird feeder and see for yourself how those little-feathered souls turn your life around towards the best!

 

1. Hang Up A Bird Feeder

There is a reason why bird feeders are the most popular item bought to attract birds. Birds love feeders. Who doesn’t love free food? Imagine: coming to your bird house after a fly at the beach and visiting a restaurant for free on your way there. You’d feel like royalty, wouldn’t you? If you go to a local hardware store or pet shop, you’ll discover a huge variety of feeders. Some have suction cups so they can get stuck to windows, others have rods so they can get attached to posts or walls.

Then there are suet feeders. They are like cakes made from beef fat and usually have seeds added. They are very nutritious and high in protein, and from my experience, birds like suet feeders more than normal feeders! Most people buy little boxes made from chicken wire to slip the suet inside.

Do not put up feeders close to windows because birds will be scared of you and won’t visit them. You also don’t want them to crash into your window, this is not good for the bird. Also avoid hanging them where rain water will gather and pour down, as bird seeds will rot if they get wet. Make sure to wash your feeder with mild soap every time you add seeds.

 

2. Add A Bird Bath

Most people think that bird baths are useless to attract birds, as the only purpose they serve is for decoration. That is incorrect! Birds love bird baths almost as much as bird feeders. Actually, birds need the bird baths just as much as seeds! Birds need to bathe because bugs cling to them and could be deadly. Birds also need to stay hydrated. These are two reasons why birds need bird baths!

Just keep in mind that bird baths aren’t deep, and if you’re planning on making one yourself, make it shallow 1 inch…

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