First Blog

On the Google engine for snooping on Chinese citizens linking Internet use to cell phone numbers.   Perhaps now, per the Google CEO on December 11, 2018, this engine may or may not be delivered to the Chinese government.  So what! Do we not realize this engine, now apparently created, can be marketed to anyone, any country, any company, any agency, any party, any billionaire, with only few simple tweeks (aka adjustments)?   Its very existence is not unlike a nuclear bomb.   If deployed, it could destroy millions of lives, level groups and companies, ruin governments, and decimate universities.   China may have been a mere foil for Google to develop such a tool it could itself use – or sell. Do they not already sell customized versions of their search engine to private companies? Yes.   Do they not already sell search data to private merchants or politicians?   Yes. Forget China.   For the power players of the world, let the bidding begin... Logic .   Nonsense you

I am so disappointed in LinkedIn.  It has apparently sent invitations to people not even in my email contacts, but apparently to contacts of contacts. I have tried everything to turn this off.  To me, it is inconceivable that this bodes good will to LinkedIn members. I have never invited anyone to "join" my network.  Yet I constantly receive invitations.  And now I am making the same - all my without consent - all without my knowledge.  To me, this is an errant business decision by LinkedIn.  What possible good would this be to irritate their members?  Henceforth, I will never accept invitations from anyone I do not personally know.  I am debating on whether to withdraw from LinkedIn altogether. On a sour note, this seems to be symptomatic of  the global institutional invasion of our personal information and lives. It is so pandemic many do not even respond any more.  Our phone calls, emails, Facebook, twitter information is all recorded and stashed in some cloud of mem