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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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The Military-Industrial-Technological Complex

August 12, 2019
by Caroline Miller
cloud computing, data collection, drones, Dwight Eisenhauer, Edward Snowden, Eric Schmidt, Google+, Jacob Silver, Military-Industrial complex, NSA, Tech giants and military, Tech's Military Dilemma, tech/military complex
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In 1961, in his farewell address to the nation as our 34th President, Dwight Eisenhower warned that “we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.” (Click)  His words are often repeated, a reminder
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Some Romance Isn’t What It’s Cracked Up To Be

May 25, 2017
by Caroline Miller
DoublePulsar, Dune Lawrence, Eternal Blue, Eternal Romance, NSA, Seriously Beware the Shadow Brokers, Shadow Brokers
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Because the news is filled to overflowing with the surprising machinations of President, Donald Trump,  we might forgive the media for failing to fully expose the seditious acts originally purported to be the work of his disgruntled supporters, the Shadow Brokers*. (Click)  (“Seri
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Too Much Information And Too Little Public Good

May 12, 2017
by Caroline Miller
Clive Thompson, Dave Eggrs, gerrymandering, Moon Duchin, NSA, self-surveillance greater than NSA, The Circle
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Unlike a declining number of people on the planet, I can remember when my life wasn’t documented.  I can recall researching the subject of ear wax at the library without finding my mailbox stuffed the next day with discount coupons for drops or scrapers to facilitate its removal. 
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Surveillance As Judge And Jury

April 20, 2016
by Caroline Miller
computer facial recognitioni, dang'an, Facebook, Minority Report, NSA, Skynet, surveilance
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Surveillance tools are everywhere.  Another device is coming soon to a store near you: software that identifies individual faces in a crowd.  Walk through Macy’s one afternoon and you may hear a message telling you your favorite cologne is on sale.  And those greeters with their
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Cheerios And The Coming Star Wars

January 22, 2016
by Caroline Miller
Asteroid Rage, asteroids, Clive Thompson, General Mills, John F. Kennedy, Moon Treaty of 1979, Neil Armstrong, NSA, one square inch of moon, The Commerical Act of 2015, The Outer Space Treaty
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When I was 10, I found a land application for 1 square inch of the moon in my Cheerios cereal box.  The time was the 1940s, long before John F. Kennedy had a gleam in his eyes to send Neil Armstrong into the stratosphere. As I was fascinated with astronomy, I jumped  at the chance t
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When Numbers Don’t Count

December 28, 2015
by Caroline Miller
data in the computer age, economics is a dismal science, Josh Dzeza, NSA, numbers and human nature, numbers don't reveal truth, Tech's risky rating game
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One of the mixed blessings of the technological age is that we are trained to think in statistics and ratings figures.  A computer can measure and quantify large numbers, so, today, almost anything can be ranked, even the trivial.  “On a scale of 1- 10, how would rate your last oi
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Democracy: More Than Spies, Nerds And Soldiers Needed

August 26, 2015
by Caroline Miller
Charles King, Dataminr, declline in foreign studies in USA, government's need for foreign culure experts, importance of foreign language studies, NSA
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“Consuming the world is not the same as understanding it.” So writes Charles King in, “The Decline of International Studies,” (Foreign Affairs, July/August 2015 pg.92.) The United States leads in technology and data mining, which includes NSA and private companies like Datamin
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A Kingdom Of One’s Own

July 28, 2015
by Caroline Miller
Carolyn Yagjian, China's South China Sea islands, Erewhon, Leonard Casley, NSA, Obsidia, Republic of Rose Island, Samuel Butler, The Principality of Hurt River, US Office of the Geographer, USSR's demise, You Too Can Be A King
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Every once in a while, my stockbroker and I have lunch.  We don’t necessarily do it to adjust my investments.  We get together to solve the world’s financial problems.  Right now, the world, according to my broker, looks glum.  He’s especially annoyed with Greece for not pay
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Let The Patriots Act

May 28, 2015
by Caroline Miller
data collection, government surveillance, NSA, personal privacy, renewal of The Patriot's Act
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While Edward Snowden continues to live a productive life in Russia, he remains an outlaw in his own country.  If he were to return to the United States, he would be prosecuted for revealing government secrets even though a federal court has ruled that the National Security Agency (NS
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