Category Archives: Don’t Let It Go…Unheard

I just got back from the auto shop; in addition to the planned brake service, my car turned out to need new spark plugs as well, so it took longer than I anticipated. Because Yaron Brook won’t be able to do a show with me this weekend anyway (he’s at the tail end of a long speaking tour), I’ll go ahead and do my own show in our usual time slot, this Saturday, at 2 p.m. ET (11 a.m. PT). Hopefully that will allow more of you to attend live 😀

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And in the meantime, you might enjoy seeing what I spent my time on while in the shop this morning.

I happened to be on Twitter, and they featured Kanye West, who had just this morning started live tweeting what he’s calling a “book” on philosophy. I responded to several of the tweets; posted a sample here. In some of my responses, I’m more encouraging: after all, here’s someone in the popular culture who’s taking time to think about ideas, and actually sounds somewhat individualistic in some of the tweets. But in others, especially when he starts talking about intellectual property, I’m more critical. Check out my responses on my Twitter feed here.

Facebook allowed users who installed an app to harvest data on 50 million people. The data was turned over to Cambridge Analytica, which used it for commercial and political purposes. Did Facebook do anything wrong? Anything for which it should be legally culpable? These questions and more on today’s show. See Program Notes, below, for all the stories, etc., I plan to discuss.

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Program Notes

Facebook’s Surveillance Machine HT John Althouse Cohen, Benjamin Chayes

F.T.C. Investigating Facebook in Use of Personal Data by Firm Tied to Trump

What’s genius for Obama is scandal when it comes to Trump HT Mark Nitikman

The Supreme Court’s Opportunity to Legalize Privacy

Unpopular opinion: Whether anything #CambridgeAnalytica did helped to make @realDonaldTrump President is not the worst thing about what Cambridge Analytica did. #LegalizePrivacy https://t.co/YMDJ9rfzOR

— Amy Peikoff 🇺🇸 (@AmyPeikoff) March 21, 2018

The leftists are using the #CambridgeAnalytica story to push a particular narrative.

There is something real & disturbing about the #CambridgeAnalytica story, something that goes beyond mere politics.

Both can be true.

(Form of this tweet borrowed from @benshapiro)

— Amy Peikoff 🇺🇸 (@AmyPeikoff) March 21, 2018

Police are casting a wide net into the deep pool of Google user location data to solve crimes HT Brooke Von Loh

Geek Squad’s Relationship with FBI Is Cozier Than We Thought HT Michael Martz

The Struggle to Build a Massive ‘Biobank’ of Patient Data

1984

The Abortion Case That’s Really About the First Amendment