You know that rule that you are not paranoid if folks really are tracking you down?
Consider yourself no longer paranoid, despite the pandemic. Count to three. No, wait, count to 100. This is going to be pretty annoying.
You know that rule that you are not paranoid if folks really are tracking you down?
Consider yourself no longer paranoid, despite the pandemic. Count to three. No, wait, count to 100. This is going to be pretty annoying.
Oh, goody. If we believe them, our smartphone vendors will no longer be selling our data to folks whose express desire is to violate our privacy.
Here I am, so smug that I don’t turn on location services on my phone. Thinking, “Ha! You can’t track me.”
We all seem to be worried (OK, that is everyone but TheDonald) that the Russians and the North Koreans have the ability to screw up our elections. To be honest, we should be terrified that they can (and do) create havoc in our civic discourse, by spreading false facts that incite and inflame.
So, tell me what would you do. You find out that one of your sites is being populated by someone who is promoting a canard. To denigrate someone else’s point of view, he’s claiming a young person is a trained actor, spewing words he was told to memorize, and doing it badly.
You know there’s a law the precludes companies (websites and apps) from tracking personal data and collecting personal data if the user is under the age of 13, right? (Now, you know why Facebook wants all users to be over the age of 13, too.)
Just the other day, I tried to download and use an app that a friend had recommended. I was looking forward to having a few more minutes each day, if this app really delivered on its promises.
So, we talked yesterday about driverless trucks and planes. And, while I doubt we’ll be getting driverless cars soon, I am sure that we will benefit from a slew of driver assist components that are part and parcel of this new concept.
Driving. I have been in love with driving since I was a drop over 13. And, despite what anyone may tell you, for the first four years of my driving, I NEVER sped.
I’ve written before about one project at Google– the one aimed at determining why folks become terrorists. The basic concept is to determine why people join gangs and how that is similar to folks joining terrorist cells. In so doing, we should be able to find ways to stop folks from becoming terrorists. This venture is led by one smart young chap- Jared Cohen- who got his start in the Condy Rice’s State Department and stayed on under Hillary Clinton’s tenure, before heading up this new gig.