Posts for 2019-03-12

Today would have been my dad’s 80th birthday.

I’ll be spending time with mum.

How low can you go? – On my Om

What is more disheartening is that except for a handful of voices, Silicon Valley’s elders, many who posit humanistic missions are silent about a company that deserves to be deemed a pariah in our ecosystem. Time is now to ask ourselves — what are the unintended consequences of our industry and our technology. Otherwise, we will have presidential hopefuls turn innovation into a vote securing pinata.

You May Have Forgotten Foursquare, but It Didn’t Forget You – WIRED

A timely reminder that Facebook and Google are not the only ones tracking you online.

What Google knows about you – Axios

Google does provide means to tell it to stop most of its tracking—if you have a Google account.

Less than a month to go before Google breaks hundreds of thousands of links all over the Internet – Philip Greenspun’s Weblog

Maybe this is why Google has a corporate mission of making the world’s information accessible? They’re the primary force now in making information inaccessible?

The Great Google Hangouts Shutdown begins October 2019 – Ars Technica

The Google Graveyard is looking busy this year.

So that’s it. My Facebook profile will be gone in 30 days from now.

Not making the same mistake as last time. I’ve gotten contact details for my closest friends, and will be staying in touch via email and phone.