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David J. Shulkin Says He Was Fired Because He Opposes Privatizing the VA

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KGxvi3/29/2018 2:38:35 pm PDT

re: #163 ObserverArt

I think we are seeing another whole huge industry facing some big changes.

Privacy and the digital world. People are going to want that to change because no one reads all that privacy info and contract with the app or program maker. And that led to the mess with Facebook. People did not know the extent they were signing away literally everything with some of the apps and social media etc.

Saw where Tim Cook and some others are going to be on a Chris Hayes/Recode Town Hall about privacy. The early release of some of his comments were pretty strong especially when he said: this about his and Apple’s philosophy:

And Cook was pretty harsh on Mark Zuckerberg. Ouch!

Here is a link with more and about the special show itself.

NBC News

I think we are in the midst of a paradigm shift on privacy. It’s a bit more than the “right to be left alone” as some courts have described it. But there’s also the issue of what constitutes private and what is public.

Beyond that, there’s the inherent problem with a lot of social media where we “users” were actually the product not the customers.