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How the Republicans Sold Your Privacy to Internet Providers - The New York Times - 0 views

  • The bill not only gives cable companies and wireless providers free rein to do what they like with your browsing history, shopping habits, your location and other information gleaned from your online activity, but it would also prevent the Federal Communications Commission from ever again establishing similar consumer privacy protections.
  • When you make a voice call on your smartphone, the information is protected: Your phone company can’t sell the fact that you are calling car dealerships to others who want to sell you a car. But if the same device and the same network are used to contact car dealers through the internet, that information — the same information, in fact — can be captured and sold by the network. To add insult to injury, you pay the network a monthly fee for the privilege of having your information sold to the highest bidder.
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    article by Tom Wheeler, March 29, 2017, on federal legislation to allow the sale of information about consumers' internet inquiries internet providers.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

I'm Not Texting. I'm Taking Notes. - The New York Times - 0 views

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    Preoccupations by Jonah Stillman on millennials using smartphones to take notes during corporate meetings and how a senior staff person first chastised him (privately) but after being informed that he was using the phone to take notes, the senior staff/mentor encouraged participants to ask for notes from earlier presentations from the young man.
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