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Posted on February 24, 2017

Police cannot walk into a building and order everyone inside to unlock their iPhones via fingerprint scan, an Illinois federal court has ruled.

The case arose from police efforts to disrupt a suspected child pornography ring. They sought permission to enter a premises, and to demand that its inhabitants unlock their iPhones with Touch ID, believing that incriminating evidence may be stored on such devices.

In his ruling, Judge M. David Weisman determined that the broadness of this approach violates Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure, and Fifth Amendment protections against self-incrimination. With respect to the former, the judge essentially suggested that police ought to have specific suspicions against particular individuals, and cannot search someones phone just because they happen to be on the premises, though he emphasized that its the context in which fingerprints are taken, and not the fingerprints themselves, that raises concerns. As for the Fifth Amendment, he ruled that the fingerprint scan itself can be self-incriminating, since by performing fingerprint unlock a suspect is testifyingthat he or she has accessed the phone before, at a minimum, to set up the fingerprint password capabilities, and that he or she currently has some level of control over or relatively significant connection to the phone and its contents.

It should be a welcome ruling from the perspective of privacy advocates like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which decried a similar police effort in California last autumn. But with a recent Minnesota Court of Appeals ruling finding that a compelled fingerprint unlock is no more testimonial than furnishing a blood sample with respect to Fifth Amendment concerns, this is still very much a contested legal frontier.

Sources: Forbes, Ars Technica

February 24, 2017 by Alex Perala

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Turkish director Hudaverdi Yavuz poses during an interview on February 4, 2017, in Istanbul. A new film about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is due to hit cinema screens weeks before an April referendum on whether to boost the presidents powers. Reis (The Chief) stars well-known Turkish actor Reha Beyoglu as the Turkish strongman and shows his life up to 1999, beginning with the presidents childhood in a poor district of Istanbul to his rise to become the citys mayor.
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A new film about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is due to hit cinema screens weeks before an April referendum on whether to boost the presidents powers.

Reis (The Chief) stars well-known Turkish actor Reha Beyoglu as the Turkish strongman and shows his life up to 1999, beginning with the presidents childhood in a poor district of Istanbul to his rise to become the citys mayor.

Turkish actress Ozlem Balci plays his wife Emine while child actor Batuhan Isik Gurel plays Erdogan as a boy.

Beyoglu, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the younger Erdogan, delivers passionate one-liners in the trailer, including a person dies only once, if we die, let us die like a man!

The actor told Kanal D broadcaster this week he was proud when Erdogan said he could see his younger self in Beyoglu.

For Hudaverdi Yavuz, the films director, he wanted to tell Erdogans life because it was really interesting and the films title came from the name Erdogan has long been known by.

When he got elected mayor of Istanbul, automatically people used the word Reis (chief) His childhood friends, his acquaintances, they call him that, he told AFP.

Questions have been raised over the films timing so close to the referendum it had been due to come out in March last year but Yavuz said he had no control over the distribution date.

Not propaganda Erdogan, the most powerful Turkish politician since founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, became president in 2014, but the role has usually been more ceremonial.

Under the new constitution, the president would have strengthened executive powers to directly appoint top public officials including ministers.

The director hit back at claims of election propaganda ahead of the referendum: This film is absolutely ours. This is not propaganda, adding there was no outside intervention.

For some, my film can have a political meaning, for others it can be a burden, that is not my problem.

Yavuz, who has previously worked for state broadcaster TRT channel, said the film producers did not seek Erdogans authorisation nor did they have to.

The film ends before the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Erdogan co-founded won power for the first time in 2002 because the director said he wanted to finish on a beautiful note.

Erdogan served four months in jail from March 1999 over the poem that was regarded as incitement to religious hatred. The trailer shows him cheered by supporters as he prepares to enter jail.

The movie was filmed in Istanbul and Cyprus over six weeks, Yavuz said.

Turkish audiences in Europe including Germany, France and Britain will also have the chance to see the film, local media said.

Brave hero In a teaser shared online, a young boy not Erdogan watches his grandfather physically beaten for reciting the Islamic call to prayer in Arabic. It was only allowed in Turkish until 1950 after it was banned in Arabic in 1932.

Demonstrating Islams strength against the secular military, the young boy begins to recite the prayer in Arabic after he sees the violence.

Another clip highlighting the militarys treatment of the pious includes one scene from September 1961 when a man the child who recited the prayer is taken away by soldiers as he is praying.

It begins with a young Erdogan, who would have been seven, watching as soldiers come to the house of a man who defied the authorities to oppose the execution of then premier Adnan Menderes.

Menderes, who lifted the ban on the Arabic-language call to prayer, was executed in the wake of the 1960 military coup.

The last scene shows Erdogan looking with defiance as the narrator says a brave hero will grow up honourable against such oppression.

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There are two new developments on the Syrian front. The Islamic State suddenly changed its tactic and the Turkish President Erdogan again changed his policy course.

In the last 24 hours news announcements about victories against the Islamic state (ISIS) rapidly followed each other:

While ISIS was under pressure everywhere the sudden retreat on all fronts during the last 24 hours is astonishing and suggest some synchronicity. A central order must have been given to pull back to the buildup areas of Raqqa in Syria and south Mosul in Iraq.

But ISIS has nowhere to go from those areas. Mosul is completely surrounded and Raqqa is mostly cut off. After the massacres they committed everywhere ISIS fighters can not expect any mercy. They have made enemies everywhere and aside from a few (Saudi) radical clerics no friends are left to help them. The recent retreats are thereby likely not signs of surrender. ISIS will continue to fight until it is completely destroyed. But for now the ISIS leaders decided to preserve their forces. One wonders what they plan to stage as their last glorious show. A mass atrocity against the civilians in the cities it occupies?

When in late 2016 the defeat of the Syrian rebels proxy forces in east-Aleppo city was foreseeable the Turkish President Erdogan switched from supporting the radicals in north-west Syria to a more lenient stand towards Syria and its allies Russia and Iran. The move followed month of on and off prodding from Russia and after several attempts by Erdogan to get more U.S. support had failed. In late December peace talksstartedbetween Syria, Russia, Turkey and Iran with the U.S. and the EU excluded.

But after the Trump administration took over the Turkish position changed again. Erdogan is nowback to bettingon a stronger U.S. intervention in Syria that would favor his original plans of installing in Syria an Islamic government under Turkish control:

Ankara understands today that Trump is aggressive toward Iran and gave his blessing to Saudi Arabia. Therefore Erdogan is taking a new position: hiding behind Saudi Arabia, mimicking the US hostility towards Iran and, in consequences, declaring himself once more against the Syrian President Bashar Assad.

The new Turkish position wasconfirmedby Senator John McCains visit to the Kurdish YPG and U.S. Special Forces in Kobani. McCain came via Turkey. An earlier visits to the YPK by U.S. special envoy Brett McGurk had been condemned by Ankara. Outside of a wider agreement such McCains antics would not be allowed.

The U.S. is allied with the Kurdish YPK in Syria who are blood-brothers of the Kurdish PKK group in Turkey which the Turkish government has been fighting for decades. The YPG fighters are good and reliable light infantry fighters. They work together with U.S. special forces and are well regarded.

Turkey offers to send its own ground troopstogether with Saudi forcesto liberate Raqqa from ISIS. The expertise the Saudi military shows in Yemen combined with the Turkish military prowess in its Euphrates Shield operation in Syria will surely will be welcome by the U.S. military.

But there are bigger strategic issues at stake and some agreement between the U.S., Turkey and the Saudishas been found(adopted machine translation):

[T]he sudden transformation of the Turkish position occurred after a lengthy conversation conducted with the US president, Donald Trump, and the visit by the head of the U.S. intelligence agency (CIA). A re-shuffling of the cards took place which induced another turn in Ankara on the Syrian file. The new U.S.-Turkish understandings that fixed the bridge between President Erdogan and the old U.S. ally is based on the escalation of hostility to Iran and the (re-)establishment of a Sunni axis led by the Turkish president. It includes the establishment of a buffer zone in Syria as a prelude to a partitioning [of Syria] scenario.

This is essentially a fall back to the positions taken by the Obama administration in 2011/12. The lessons learned since will have to be relearned. The signals from the U.S. military now suggest the introduction of additional regular ground troops in support of a U.S. proxy force and an eventual U.S. protected enclave in east-Syria. The YPK is the only reliable proxy force available to the U.S. and it needs heavier weapon support to take on Raqqa. But U.S. boots on ground in the Middle East have never been a solution. They are a guarantee of extended fighting and eventual failure.

The strategic view is contradictory. The U.S. wants to fight the Sunni radical forces that Saudi Arabia grows and pampers. Even while ISIS gets diminished new such forces are already growing in Iraq. Any anti-radical strategy that builds on cooperation with the Saudis will fail.

It is impossible to get Turkey and the YPK/PKK to fight on one side McCain visit or not. The U.S. would loose its only reliable proxy force in Syria should it make common cause with Erdogan in the fight about Raqqa. Any anti-Kurdish Turkish-U.S. controlled safe zone in north Syria will come under fire from all other sides on the ground. Any U.S. base in Syria will be the target of various regular and irregular forces. In the long term the new plans are doomed and Erdogans latest u-turn is unlikely to be rewarded.

But until then we can expect more bloodshed and more fighting in Syria. As Eljah Magniercomments:

The US policy in Syria seems frantic and far-fetched without efficient powerful allies on the ground, and is unable to retake cities from ISIS with its Kurdish proxies alone. And the honeymoon between Washington and Riyadh will certainly have a substantial negative effect on the war in Syria. This will increase the closeness between Russia and Iran, but the tension between US and Russia is also expected to increase: one side (the US) wants partition and the other (Russia) wants a unified Syria without al-Qaida and ISIS, and without Turkey occupying the north of Syria and a Saudi Arabia return to the Bilad al-Sham. At this stage, it is difficult to speculate on what this clash of incompatible objectives will produce on the ground in Syria.

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EDMONTON, ALBERTA / ACCESSWIRE / February 23, 2017 / Grizzly Discoveries Inc. (GZD.V) (OTC PINK: GZDIF) (G6H.F) ("Grizzly" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement (the "Agreement") with AGORA Internet Relations Corp.("AGORA") in order to increase awareness about Grizzly Discoveries Inc. via the web to the investment community.

The Company will receive significant exposure through millions of content brand insertions on the AGORA network and extensive search engine marketing over the next 12 months. In addition, exclusive sponsorships of invaluable digital properties, such as AGORACOM TV, the AGORACOM home page, and the AGORACOM Twitter account, will serve to significantly raise the brand awareness of the Company among small cap investors.

Brian Testo, President and CEO of Grizzly, stated, "AGORA is a top player in the online marketing space. We are delighted to have retained their services to expand our presence to the resource investor."

Shares for Services Program

The Company intends to issue shares for services to AGORA in exchange for the online advertising, marketing, and branding services ("Advertising Services"). Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, the Corporation will be issuing, subject to regulatory acceptance, common shares of Grizzly ("Shares") with aggregate value of $40,000 (plus HST) over the one year term of the Agreement. The Shares, subject to regulatory acceptance, will be issued in five tranches:

The number of shares to be issued at the end of each period will be determined by using the closing price of the Shares of the Company on the TSX Venture Exchange on the first trading day following each period for which the Advertising Services were provided by AGORA, subject to a minimum price of $0.05 per share. Each issuance of shares for Advertising Services by AGORA is subject to TSX Venture approval.

The term of the Agreement is for 12 months effective March 1, 2017. The Company will issue a press release upon each issuance of shares under the terms of the agreement.

About AGORACOM

AGORACOM is the pioneer of online investor relations, online conferences, and online branding services to North American small and mid-cap public companies, with more than 250 companies served. More than just lip service, AGORACOM is the home of more than 808K investors that visited 5.6 million times and read 52.4 million pages of information every year (Average 2008 - 2015).

AGORACOM traffic ranks within the top 0.5% of all websites around the world. These traffic results are independently tracked and verified by Google analytics. AGORACOM traffic can be attributed to its strategy of maintaining the cleanest, moderated small-cap discussion as a result of implementing the first ever Investor Controlled Stock Discussion Forums.

AGORACOM Founder, George Tsiolis, publishes the leading blog on small to mid-cap investor relations. His 50 Small-Cap CEO Lessons are a must read for CEO's looking to increase their education and knowledge about online investor relations.

ABOUT GRIZZLY DISCOVERIES INC.

Grizzly is a diversified Canadian mineral exploration company with its primary listing on the TSX Venture Exchange with 52.4 million shares issued, focused on developing significant Potash assets in Alberta and its precious metals properties in southeastern British Columbia. The Company holds over 235,000 acres of precious-base metal properties in British Columbia; more than 205,000 acres of properties which host diamondiferous kimberlites in the Buffalo Head Hills region of Alberta; and metallic and industrial mineral permits for potash totaling more than 101,000 acres along the Alberta-Saskatchewan border.

On behalf of the Board, GRIZZLY DISCOVERIES INC.

Brian Testo CEO, President Tel: (780) 693-2242

For further information, please visit our website at http://www.grizzlydiscoveries.com, or contact:

Nancy Massicotte, Investor Relations IR PRO COMMUNICATIONS INC. Tel: 604-507-3377 Toll Free: 1-866-503-3377 Email: ir@grizzlydiscoveries.com http://www.irprocommunications.com

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Ian Lambert COO, Grizzly Discoveries Inc. Tel: 416-840-9843 Email: ilambert@grizzlydiscoveries.com

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

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Risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to vary include but are not limited to the availability of financing; fluctuations in commodity prices; changes to and compliance with applicable laws and regulations, including environmental laws and obtaining requisite permits; political, economic and other risks; as well as other risks and uncertainties which are more fully described in our annual and quarterly Management's Discussion and Analysis and in other filings made by us with Canadian securities regulatory authorities and available at http://www.sedar.com. Grizzly disclaims any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information or statements except as may be required by law.

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The digital world has many new and upcoming trends to offer in 2017. All the marketers may be wondering and imagining the changes that would topple the ways in which things are executed today. Yes, its indeed so. The trends are of course foreseeable as in the last few years we have seen quite a number of new devices like Apple Watch, Moto 360, and Google Glass being launched. The mobile phones are getting even more sophisticated and the newer apps are being launched every single day.

With all these changes, its inevitable that the year 2017 would see more wearable devices and change in wearable technology that may change the entire way local marketing is being carried on. It might be that the digital marketers have to focus on tapping the potential of the wearable technology which can bring a huge change in the way digital marketing is seen today. Content marketing is another field thats surely going to go through a sea change. Social media is yet another vertical that is evolving at a higher pace.

There is no doubt that the digital space is going to expand with more companies entering the field stiffening the competition. The other viewpoint is, with the data revolution increasing its volume and speed, the search engines would sort and give preference to the huge amount of data available on the internet for easing the search operations. Thus as far as we can see, the whole ecosystem of the marketable digital space is going to expand and evolve.

With so many foreseeable trends, you may wonder whats going to happen and in which direction the digital world is advancing. This is a question that intrigues many, standing at the crossroads of innovation and change, at all the frontiers of technology and practice. Whatever may be the case it is indeed true, the digital marketing space is huge, complex, and is becoming increasingly volatile. Change and innovation are the order of the day and in this evolution of a constantly changing ecosystem the sooner you are able to strike the right chord of the internet user, the more marketable the company and its products would be. This would enable any company to stay ahead of the competitors.

In this spree of change, lets see the trends that are going to mark the recent times. Considering the practice of the industry, digital marketing has had three key branches namely email marketing, social media marketing, and SEO. Lets go ahead and analyze the changes that are seen on the horizon which is going to mark the year 2017.

Email Marketing Trends

The email marketing trends in 2017 would see the shorter body of the emails, context driven messaging, and the tone of the emails would be more conversational. Emails may be complemented by chatbots. Heat map studies would be more in vogue that enables the understanding of users habit patterns and which subject lines, users are focusing on.

More of email automation would be used with the machines matching the subscribers with content. This would also encourage cross-channel data to be leveraged even more with increased adoption of lead scoring data. With the emails getting shorter with more attention-grabbing subject lines and more contextual content, the call-to-action would be more clear and compelling. Thus, staying relevant is where the challenge would lie. It is already a fact that the emails are viewed more on mobile phones and thus they would be compatible with the devices used depending on the usage of the target segment.

SEO Trends

SEO is an ever-evolving field as the search engine algorithm is improving with newer changes in the way things used to happen earlier. In this context, the usage of the schema as a markup is gradually stealing the show with the changes in the Google algorithm along with the users trends. Use of schema makes it comparatively easier for the search engines to assess your website which increases the probability of being shown up with any query.

The tendency of Google is to improve the ways in facilitating the users with what they want through their query. As Googles algorithm and search pattern change as it has, through 2016, usage of the schema is bound to increase in 2017. Google has been observed to use more of Quick Answers that has grown from 22% from the end of December 2014 to over 40% at the beginning of 2016. Schema helps in making the context and purpose of the website clear to Google so that the content is clearer for the snippet boxes to understand.

The discussion about SEO trends would not be complete without talking about the introduction of RankBrain, artificial intelligence, and machine learning by Google. Googles RankBrain is more into understanding the context of a word being searched and this, of course, has a bearing on the search engine ranking. The digital marketers in 2017 cannot ignore the machine learning aspect of Google anymore which has evolved to be the one of most important factor for ranking.

There is no denying the fact that the organic digital marketing eco-space is constantly expanding and getting more complex. The blog content, user-generated content, and social media contents are all evaluated and taken into account in deciding the rankings. In this context, it is essential to mention that not only Google but Bing and the social media giants like Facebooks algorithm would also go through a marked change in the coming year.

The last few of years have witnessed a phenomenal growth in the digital marketing efforts by the organizations worldwide. It is quite obvious that the competition would increase for online space with more companies joining the spree of digital marketing. This would inevitably increase the demand for the top advertising spaces surging the prices for online advertising. An opinion still persists which says that pay per click (PPC) advertising would die in the coming years. If it really does there would be more alternatives of optimized advertisements ruling the web in the ensuing years.

Mobile optimization is another trend that would prevail as Google has virtually phased out the websites which are not mobile friendly. The year 2016 was a year that witnessed the phenomenal use of mobile phones and these handheld devices outmoded the usage of the desktop. Along with it, the desktop traffic has been substituted with mobile phone traffic which suggests marketers would be more mobile-focused in their efforts of internet marketing. Search from mobile phones and optimization would thus be a top most priority in 2017.

Social Media Trends

The connection between like-minded people through social media has been rising at a meteoric pace in the last decade. Today, people of different countries and continents are connected than ever before through social media. The brands are increasingly plunging into social media to increase reach with diverse content types like infographics, video, and articles with the intention of bringing together the prospective customers and converting them.

One of the recent trends that would increase in 2017 is making the employees turn into brand ambassadors on social media. According to Pardots estimates, there has been 191% growth in employee advocacy on social media from 2013. In the same survey, 45% of the respondents named employee advocacy as the top external objective of organizations. This trend is estimated to increase in 2017.

Client support programs through social media are supposed to grow as more brands are using social media and are coming up with social teams to answer the questions and resolve customers issues while on the go and in real time. Social listening and use of social media for conversion are the trends that are going to rise with the social media analytics, becoming even more comprehensive and easier to use.

The power of social media would be used more effectively by the business community and the marketers in 2017. This would include the attempts to use social media as a conversion channel and convert the prospects to buyers directly.

Whats for sure?

The good news of course is, the internet users are on the rise and it would increase even more in 2017. According to a research study, $2.2 trillion of retail sales was influenced by the internet in 2015. The same study predicted that 2017 would be marked by more web traffic than all the combined prior internet years. By 2017, 68% of all the internet traffic would be generated by mobile phones and connected devices. The social media population is also growing and 2017 would ensure more traffic on social networks. This would certainly give ample space for marketers to market their products and services.

SwapnilBhagwat

Orchestrate Technologies, LLC

Swapnil is a design and digital marketing leader with global working experience in the United States, United Kingdom & Europe. He has worked for more than a decade across a range of businesses for the global markets. In this role as the Senior manager - design & digital Media, Swapnil is delivering high impact results for B2B and B2C organizations. He is an accomplished MBA graduate and has a track record of successfully implementing design, web & digital strategies for large enterprises.

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