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When Titans Speak, Should We Listen?

July 08, 2021
by Caroline Miller
Apple, behavioral targeting, Clive Thompson, contextual targeting, DuckDuckGo, Nancy Pelosi, privacy and the tech giants, Tim Cook
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Recently, Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, called Nancy Pelosi to express his objection to the many tech anti-trust bills making their way through the U. S. House. If he hadn’t been serious when he made his comments, it would have been funny: Apple is concerned the current proposals would ha
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Technology, Good Intentions And The Road To Hell

May 04, 2020
by Caroline Miller
Apple, coronavirus, Dr. Fauci, Edward Snowden, Google+, NSA, program to track social contacts, Veena Dubel, Vice News
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Thanks to hackers who spirited my personal information into the dark web, I’m getting weird emails. Some of the senders write revealing details about me as if we’ve known each other for years. “Delete that stuff,” my hardware guru advised. “They’re crooks pretending to kno
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When Free Is Less Than A Good Price

January 08, 2019
by Caroline Miller
Apple, Facebook, Jeffery Hammerbacher, Mark Zuckerberg, Netflix, Zeynap Tufekci
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Over the holidays, a couple  introduced me to their son who was visiting from Boston.  As he was a young man, I asked what he did for a living.  He said he was a medical researcher and was working on a drug for multiple sclerosis.  A lump hardened in my throat as I remembered a br
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To Catch A Mole

July 02, 2018
by Caroline Miller
2016 elections, Apple, China spy, FBI, Nick Bilton, old spy story is new again, Russian spying, security breaches in high tech, Valley of the Spies
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During the 2016 election, I reported my blog had come under Russian attack.  My friends laughed.  My gurus didn’t. Lately, the blog has experienced another invasion, the source of which is unknown.  Three hundred people have subscribed to my blog in the last month alone.  They
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Technological Updates

May 29, 2018
by Caroline Miller
Alexis, Apple, Crispr, DNA, Feng Zhang, human genome, Jennifer Doudna, Megan Molteni, Nitasha Tiku, Seri, Sherlock
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Crispr is a technique that has added a large body of knowledge to our understanding of the human genome. (Click) (Click)  It is a gene-editing technique which allows human DNA to be altered in the hope of ending deadly diseases like cancer and sickle-cell anemia. Two women worked tog
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Silicon Valley, The Ancient Egyptians and Passwords

June 09, 2017
by Caroline Miller
Apple, fingerprint identification, iris scanners, Microsoft, Nate Lanxon, passwords, To Fix Your Terrible Passwords
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Know what 123456 is? It’s the world’s most popular security password. (“To Fix Your Terrible Passwords, Kill them,” by Nate Lanxon, Bloomberg Businessweek, May 29-June 4, 2017, pgs. 36-37.)  Understand, I mock no one for lack of originality.   For a time, 000000 worked for
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The Sixth Estate

February 10, 2017
by Caroline Miller
Apple, Donald Trump, ethics code for Silicon Valleyl, Hitler, Japanese internment camps, Kate Crawford, Letter to Silicon Valley, Sixth Estate, technology v personal privacy, Thomas Watson, Yahoo
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In a blog entitled A Polemic (1/20/17), I wrote about an artist’s duty to comment upon events of the time.  In a similar vein, the editors of Harper’s devoted their February edition to “A Resister’s Guide”: 11 writers stop to consider the impact of Donald Trump’s 2017 pre
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National Security And The War On Terror

March 15, 2016
by Caroline Miller
Apple, Black Lives Matter, government surveillance, Japanese internment, Kade Crockford, Keep Fear Alive, Labor Movement, national security versus personal privacy, war against communism, war on terror
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 Kade Crockford, Director of Technology for Liberty with the ACLU points out Americans spend billions of dollars each year fighting the war on terror with failed systems. In the meantime, the only disagreement between the two political parties  is about “how quickly we should disp
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