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Would you let complete strangers know everywhere you have been? How about where you are planning on going today, would you let them know that and your exact route on how you want to get there? How about every place you are thinking about going but haven’t decided yet? If you use google maps you […]
Here are four articles that are good reads on the usual privacy and how to best safeguard yourself from companies in the business of stealing your privacy and selling it for a profit (aka: Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc…) https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2363302,00.asp https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-really-is-spying-on-you-just-not-through-your-phones-mic-1520448644 https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-dump-facebook-or-at-least-put-it-in-the-dog-house-for-a-while-1521846110 https://medium.com/@getongab/the-ultimate-guide-to-freeing-yourself-from-facebook-and-keeping-all-of-your-data-8a93efbf529e
If you want a frightening read, from ACLU who I personally dislike, on how Facebook, and we can assume all others in the surveillance economy, monitor and track you even if you never signed up for Facebook. This is truly disturbing. https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/internet-privacy/facebook-tracking-me-even-though-im-not-facebook
Google, Facebook, Amazon… they are monopolies pure and simple. Since their business model is predicated on the network effect it is not possible to argue otherwise. And just like the oil barons before these monopolies must be broken up. We the people have broke up illegal monopolies (see: Sherman Anti-Trust Act) before and we will […]
Why escape from the Goolag? If you wouldn’t let a stranger listen to all your phone calls, read all your mail, and spy on your photos… then you should not be using Google, Facebook or Amazon. Would you allow random strangers to view all your photos? All the photos of your children? Can I read […]
If you are not already using Firefox as your browser, here is one more reason you should (as if making sure that Google doesn’t record every single key-press you type while using using the web wasn’t enough reason not to stop using Chrome…) Firefox has an extension that will “sandbox” your Facebook experience so you can […]
Would you let a stranger read everything your child does at school? Know every web site they visit? See a copy of every photo they take and know about every book they read? How about a group of strangers, because that is what happens when children use Google classroom and school issued Chromebooks. Do you […]
Citizens Against Monopoly is an excellent organization working to battle the monopolies of the internet. From their about section: We are a growing movement to protect this country’s economy and democracy from gigantic corporate monopolies that undermine opportunity, competition, choice, and freedom of expression. We believe our democracy hangs in the balance and it will […]
How much would you need to be paid to let someone know where you are every moment of the day within 5 yards and then sell that information with thousands of companies and people you don’t know? Probably more than zero. But if you leave your location tracking option on your phone to ON then […]
The internet as your personal source of news has taken many forms, and unfortunately where we have ended for most people is a place where others decide for you what you should be thinking and reading. In the beginning the web was simple, you just went to the web sites that interested you. Then the […]