May 14, 2020 | news, Politics
Power Eric Lutz / Vanity Fair, April 3, 2020 Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo, May 13, 2020 Yahoo News, May 13, 2020 George Orwell on power: “Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not...
Mar 25, 2020 | law, news, Politics, Privacy, security
Having government and big companies track our locations is a horrific invasion of privacy. We can be sure that big companies will be careless with private information about us, allowing it to be misused by bad actors. The government will almost certainly weaponize it...
Mar 19, 2020 | news, Politics, Privacy, security
Health authorities could track your location and use the data to monitor and model the spread of Covid-19. It would help researchers learn how long the virus survives on a surface, what percentage of the population is asymptomatic, and where to target medical...
Jan 29, 2020 | Chrome, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, news, Office, Office 365, Politics, search
Two weeks ago, Google changed its web search results to fool you into clicking on paid ads by mistake. Last week Microsoft announced that an upcoming update for Office will force web searches in Chrome to go through Bing instead of Google – without consent and...
Dec 23, 2019 | bruceb, business, Chrome, Facebook, Google, Google Home, home assistants, LastPass, mail, Microsoft, mobile, news, Office, Office 365, OneDrive, Outlook, phone, Politics, Privacy, security, Windows10
(This will be the last Bruceb News article until I recover from an upcoming business conference trip to Hawaii. Happy holidays!) I think I accomplished two goals in 2019: writing articles about privacy and security that were so terrifying that they kept you awake at...
Dec 16, 2019 | business, Facebook, Google, law, news, Politics, Privacy
Your personal information is being bought and sold by companies that lurk in the shadows. You’ve never heard of them. That’s the way they like it. This is the most important issue that affects your privacy today. Let’s start with a tight focus....
