Mornings With Mark

Three articles this week each touching on smartphone data highlight a much bigger issue. Each of these articles remind us how much data our phones generate and how valuable that data is. Yet we don't treat that data as valuable. It's packaged and resold with no compensation to the owner of that data...if they are even aware that the data exists and is being sold. This is a huge issue and one we should be tackling again and again until things change. References: Joseph Cox for Motherboard on spending $300 to get a phone's location, https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nepxbz/i-gave-a-bounty-hunter-300-dollars-located-phone-microbilt-zumigo-tmobile Blackberry CEO John Chen on how they would break their own encryption is legally asked, https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/10/25/blackberry-ceo-well-try-to-break-our-own-encryption-if-feds-demand-it/#1b9453ef6977 Facebook is coming preinstalled on Samsung phones is appears to be impossible to delete, https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/why-you-might-