{"id":9226,"date":"2024-12-31T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=9226"},"modified":"2024-12-31T20:56:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T01:56:50","slug":"pirate-news-bye-bye-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/31\/pirate-news-bye-bye-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate News: Bye Bye 2024!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Steve, Joe and James discussed a massive VW data leak, the passing of President Carter and the US Justice Department&#8217;s report on the Worcester Police Department. Join us for our Winter 2025 conference on Sunday, January 19th! It will be at the ROOTED Armory Caf\u00e9, 191 Highland Ave., Somerville. The conference starts by 10am and ends around 4pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/conference\/\">Conference<\/a>; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/forms\/register-our-winter-2025-conference\">Registration<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/forms\/speak-our-winter-2025-party-conference\">Speaker Registration<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RX2yk6fI_mg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/civicrm\/profile\/create?gid=16&amp;reset=1\">Sign up to our newsletter to get notified of new events<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/forms\/support-the-pirate-party\">volunteer<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/social.globalpirates.net\/@masspirates\">Join us on<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/social.globalpirates.net\/@masspirates\">Mastodon<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/masspirates\">Facebook<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/masspirates.bsky.social\">Blue Sky<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/masspirates\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Some links we mentioned:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carscoops.com\/2024\/12\/vw-group-data-breach-exposed-location-info-for-800000-evs\/\">Massive VW Data Leak Exposed 800,000 EV Owners\u2019 Movements, From Homes To Private Spaces<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/foundation.mozilla.org\/en\/privacynotincluded\/articles\/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy\/\">It\u2019s Official: Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcvb.com\/article\/worcester-police-federal-investigation-findings\/63137284\">DOJ investigation finds &#8216;outrageous government conduct&#8217; within Worcester Police Department<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcvb.com\/article\/worcester-pastor-doj-police-report\/63162789\">Pastor shares experience amid Worcester police&#8217;s Department of Justice civil rights report<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegram.com\/story\/news\/local\/2024\/12\/09\/us-justice-department-worcester-police-investigation-released\/76858093007\/\">Federal investigation faults Worcester police on use of force, sexual contact with women<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/crt\/media\/1378896\/dl\">Investigation of the Worcester Police Department and the City of Worcester, Massachusetts<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jimmy_Carter\">Jimmy Carter Wikipedia page<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Image Credit: Pedro Ribeiro Sim\u00f5es, <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/w8Ego\">Fireworks 4<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve, Joe and James discussed a massive VW data leak, the passing of President Carter and the US Justice Department&#8217;s report on the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59,32,44,47,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-criminal-justice","category-slider","category-piratecon","category-podcasts","category-privacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Fireworks4.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-2oO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9232,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9226\/revisions\/9232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}