Mac vs PC, iOS vs Android

by Ty Davison | Dec 25, 2016 | News & Commentary

https://apple.news/Az71150G4TUWdpAJpwRZTtQThe difference is, and remains, one of security, privacy, and malware. No one who can afford an iPhone should be using Android on this basis alone.

How fascism starts

by Ty Davison | Sep 25, 2016 | News & Commentary

For decades, ever since a scandal in the 1980s in which Switzerland’s government was revealed to have been spying on tens of thousands of its citizens, the Swiss have been sceptical about state surveillance. CCTV cameras are rare; even Google Street View is...

Emails and personal data should be private

by Ty Davison | Sep 3, 2016 | News & Commentary

This sort of thing is why we have a Fourth Amendment. “Whether the government has a warrant to rifle through our mail, safety deposit boxes, or emails stored in the cloud, it must notify people about the searches,” said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Lee Tien. “When...

Google absorbs Nest

by Ty Davison | Aug 31, 2016 | News & Commentary

http://fortune.com/2016/08/30/google-nest-developers-alphabet/Paid $3.2 billion to run a promising company into the ground.

Facebook recommended that this psychiatrist’s patients friend each other

by Ty Davison | Aug 30, 2016 | News & Commentary

Increasingly thinking it’s time to leave Facebook. This psychiatrist’s experience is just creepy.All these patients likely have Lisa’s number in their phones, so an algorithm analyzing this network of phone contacts might reasonably assume all these people are...