Some people think google and their new secret daddy ‘Alphabet‘ are ok. Perhaps this article will convince you otherwise? In the past, google would very slowly ‘creep’ you from behind. They’d take a little ‘peek’ over your shoulder at your personal information and then kind of ‘accidentally’ share that information with advertisers. No biggy. People get their ‘free’ services and…
Category: Freedom and Privacy
Question the Magic (QTM): Hello Barbie
Thanks to my usual homeboys for forwarding this one. It’s simply…. MAGIC! HELLO BARBIE which costs a mere… oh…. HUNDRED BUCKS, will also, for that small fee, spy on your children (and you as a bonus) and report its findings to an unidentified source for not-fully-disclosed purposes. The Magic Your kid speaks to Barbie and Barbie comes back with one…
Question the Magic (QTM): Google Tone
If you haven’t been following the ‘question the magic’ series that I’ve recently started, welcome! You can see our inaugural post here about a really ‘fun’ watch sponsored by our friends over at the wonderful world of Disney. Today a new ‘magic’ technology was presented to me, being researched by the small and non-invasive company called Google. I’m sure Google…
Question the Magic (QTM): Em-Sense Watch
Question the magic. It just came to me. It’s a new way of thinking that needs to start happening and it needs to start happening *yesterday*. After the invention of the television, humanity started shutting off our brains. It was ‘magic’ how that visual image came through thin air into their homes. It was ‘magic’ how the cell phones connect…
Facebook, Apple and Big Brother Peep in your Bedroom at Night
“Facebook, Apple and Big Brother Peep in your Bedroom at Night” Does that title sound creepy? Good. It should. And now, it’s real. I mean literally real. Not a movie, but real. The kind of real like when you have a severe gas pain that renders you immobile. That kind of real. The ever-spying, ever-invasive Facebook with their nasty little…
Where Have All the Heroes Gone?
A friend forwarded me this most interesting article on the clearly increasing participation in street protests in the UK and around the world. Old ‘Anonymous’ is rising up and increasing it would appear. It reminded me of ‘occupy Vancouver’ way back in 2011. And it reminded me of other things from my youth that I joined in to protest. Most…
Google: The Supreme Alphabet Agency
You may have not read my original post about Google’s somewhat silent and out-of-the-blue creation of their new ‘supreme corporation’ ‘Alphabet, but if not, do catch up by reading it here. I knew there was ‘something’ about their name. Something strategic. Something creepy. Something tongue and cheek. But it wasn’t until I had a 6am coffee with Joe Adam on…
Our Online Future Encapsulated
A friend of mine sent me this speech (transcribed) today and I was absolutely unable to stop reading it right to the end. I found out that my browser has ‘reader mode’ which was cool, by the way. Read this article. You’ll learn about how you are victimized but it ends with some awesome inspiration. It encapsulates: Our current situation…
It’s Time to Hate What Google Has Made You
You have been a frog in lukewarm water and Google (and Apple, and Microsoft, and others) have turned up the heat without you noticing. Well, you kind of noticed. You kind of noticed how some conveniently relevant ads started showing up in your inbox and on all the websites you started visiting. You kind of noticed how the mail that…
Free Secure Instant Reliable Skype Alternative
Update (150922): less than 24 hours after publishing this post was published confirming that the very next release of Firefox (version 41) will have the key missing ingredient of instant messanging (IM) or text chat built into the Firefox Hello! part of the browser. This is huge news and great news. Read on! Skype Down. Good. ‘Bout time a Fire…