Monthly Archives: March 2020

Zoom’s new privacy policy

Posted on March 30, 2020 by Doc Searls

Yesterday (March 29), Zoom updated its privacy policy with a major rewrite. The new language is far more clear than what it replaced, and which had caused the concerns I detailed in my previous three posts: Zoom needs to clean up … Continue reading →

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Helping Zoom

Posted on March 29, 2020 by Doc Searls

[This is the third of four posts. The last of those, Zoom’s new privacy policy, visits the company’s positive response to input such as mine here. So you might want to start with that post (because it’s the latest) and … Continue reading →

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More on Zoom and privacy

Posted on March 28, 2020 by Doc Searls

[This is the second of four posts. The last of those, Zoom’s new privacy policy., visits the company’s positive response to input such as mine here. So you might want to start with that post (because it’s current) and look … Continue reading →

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Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act

Posted on March 27, 2020 by Doc Searls

[21 April 2020—Hundreds of people are arriving here from this tweet, which calls me a “Harvard researcher” and suggests that this post and the three that follow are about “the full list of the issues, exploits, oversights, and dubious choices … Continue reading →

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We haven’t seen this movie before

Posted on March 25, 2020 by Doc Searls

  Three weekends ago, we drove from New York to Baltimore to visit with family. We had planned this for awhile, but there was added urgency: knowing the world was about to change in a big way. Or in many big … Continue reading →

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Remembering Freddy Herrick

Posted on March 13, 2020 by Doc Searls

The picture of Freddy Herrick I carry everywhere is in my wallet, on the back of my membership card for a retail store. It got there after I loaned my extra card to Freddy so he could use it every … Continue reading →

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Remembering Freeman Dyson

Posted on March 6, 2020 by Doc Searls

By his own description, Freeman was a frog: Some mathematicians are birds, others are frogs. Birds fly high in the air and survey broad vistas of mathematics out to the far horizon. They delight in concepts that unify our thinking … Continue reading →

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The universe is a start-up

Posted on March 4, 2020 by Doc Searls

“Pillars of Creation” is a live view of stars forming in a neighboring region of the Milky Way. (Inside the Eagle Nebula, 5,400 to 6,100 light years away.) The Solar System, formed 4.6 billion years ago. Earth became a planet .46 … Continue reading →

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