It sure looks like we don’t care. Is it that we don’t appreciate Privacy?

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/why-is-your-location-data-no-longer-private/

Why Is Your Location Data No Longer Private?

The past month has seen one blockbuster revelation after another about how our mobile phone and broadband providers have been leaking highly sensitive customer information, including real-time location data and customer account details. In the wake of these consumer privacy debacles, many are left wondering who’s responsible for policing these industries? How exactly did we get to this point? What prospects are there for changes to address this national privacy crisis at the legislative and regulatory levels? These are some of the questions we’ll explore in this article.

… When I first saw a Carnegie Mellon University researcher show me last week that he could look up the near-exact location of any mobile number in the United States, I sincerely believed the public would be amazed and horrified at the idea that mobile providers are sharing this real-time data with third party companies, and at the fact that those third parties in turn weren’t doing anything to prevent the abuse of their own systems.

Instead, after a brief round of coverage in several publications, the story fell out of the news cycle. A story this week in Slate.com lamented how little coverage the mainstream press has given to the LocationSmart scandal, and marvels at how much more shocked people were over the Cambridge Analytic scandal with Facebook.

Can I get an “AMEN!”

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-bezos-blue-origin-20180525-story.html

Jeff Bezos wants to get back to the moon, but he knows space is no place for going solo

Amazon's Jeff Bezos on Friday advocated a return to the moon and said developing infrastructure for humans to live in space should be a collaborative effort among many companies and space agencies.

A long-stated goal of the Amazon CEO and founder of Blue Origin space company has been to see millions of people living and working in space, and he said the first step was to reduce launch costs. His Kent, Wash. company, Blue Origin, is developing a rocket called New Glenn that will have a reusable first-stage booster.

That rocket is intended to provide commercial launch services for satellites by the end of 2020.

Staying on Earth "is not necessarily extinction, but the alternative is stasis," Bezos said during an onstage discussion Friday night with Geekwire journalist Alan Boyle at the National Space Society's International Space Development Conference in Los Angeles.