Of course they do
404 Media: Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit. Here it is.
Look at it this way: personal privacy is a vacuum in the digital world, and will remain so as long as we're naked there. Surveillance will fill that vacuum. Inevitably. Constantly.
We're not naked in the natural world because we invented the privacy technologies called clothing, shelter, doors, and locks. We also invented privacy protocols called manners. We have none of the equivalent in the digital world. Not yet. Bonus link.
Wish I were still there
Just put up photos from our trip to Harbour Island in February.
So help us with that
Finally Fixing Health Care is a post I started here and finished on the ProjectVRM blog, where it belonged in the first place. It's about how Google and Microsoft wasted $billions not fixing a problem they could only make worse. And how healthcare needs a VRM solution: because it's our health, our data, and we're the only ones in a position to scale it. Here's Adrian Gropper's latest on the issue.
Digital Transitionings
Hampshire College closes. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette gets acquired by a nonprofit.
And, as an old radio guy, I love his voice
Tristan Harris is the human conscience of AI. Or if not that, at least the foremost ethicist of our digital age. If that description tempts you to hear and see more, dig Why Safer Futures Are Still Possible & What You Can Do to Help, on YouTube.
Who did it?
I don't agree with this, but it's brilliantly done.
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