{"id":1057,"date":"2007-11-26T15:20:20","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T13:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/1057"},"modified":"2007-12-30T13:50:54","modified_gmt":"2007-12-30T11:50:54","slug":"recent-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/1057","title":{"rendered":"Recent news"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read an article today\u00c2\u00a0alerting me to a slightly disturbing facet of Facebook’s new marketing campaign:\u00c2\u00a0your online purchases at external sites are being shared with your friends on Facebook.<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 Not only would you possibly be endorsing products (and not getting paid for it), but\u00c2\u00a0your privacy would be invaded.\u00c2\u00a0 There is an opt-out option, but from what I understand it is not very clear.<\/p>\n

I rarely make online purchases, especially since I am in Israel, but there are many people who use the internet for much of their shopping.\u00c2\u00a0 How many consumers are aware of how much tracking goes on?\u00c2\u00a0 According to this study<\/a>, many Americans are not very aware of how their habits are tracked and used to market to them.\u00c2\u00a0 “People think privacy notices mean certain default protections. Consumers don’t understand that privacy policies are just notices. They don’t guarantee any rights.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The other article I read today was called “Taking Science on Faith”<\/a>, and it mirrored very closely\u00c2\u00a0a chapter in my father’s new book<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The following paragraph from the article\u00c2\u00a0sums it up nicely, I think.<\/p>\n

“Clearly, then, both religion and science are founded on faith \u00e2\u20ac\u201d namely, on belief in the existence of something outside the universe, like an unexplained God or an unexplained set of physical laws, maybe even a huge ensemble of unseen universes, too. For that reason, both monotheistic religion and orthodox science fail to provide a complete account of physical existence.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Science and religion do not need to be in conflict!\u00c2\u00a0 They have a lot more in common than parties in both camps like to admit.\u00c2\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read an article today\u00c2\u00a0alerting me to a slightly disturbing facet of Facebook’s new marketing campaign:\u00c2\u00a0your online purchases at external sites are being shared with your friends on Facebook.\u00c2\u00a0 Not only would you possibly be endorsing products (and not getting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-technology","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}