I am not a social media person. I have only six friends on Facebook. I distrust the way we casually grant access to private information and wonder where it will all end. Recent events have been such that I am not likely to add any more friends.
When I retired from the Connecticut Bar Association leadership, they kindly gave me a Fitbit watch as a parting gift (along with a martini set). Fitbit has a cool feature where your daily exercise doings get recorded on a Web page. I thought that was pretty neat, and was using it to keep track of my miles, calories, weight and fitness until I discovered that the folks at Fitbit corporate had the ability to see everything. When I objected that my stuff was private, the response I got was something like “nothing on the Internet is private.” The person I was dealing with then gleefully recited back more data on myself than even my wife knows. My solution was to “air gap” the thing, disconnecting the watch from the Internet.
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