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“A World Without … “

Think back, how many of you can remember the 1964 musical hit by Peter and Gordon, “A World Without Love?” … Probably not many, unless like me, you have SiriusXM and regularly listen to The Sixties Gold.

To refresh your memory, here are some of the lyrics:

Please lock me away

And don’t allow the day

Here inside where I hide

With my loneliness

I don’t care what they say I won’t stay

In a world without love

What reminded me of this song you might ask? Well, one of my daughter’s iPhone is near death in iPhone hospice. I do not know all of its symptoms, but these days can one “stay in a world without … an iPhone?” For many, not having an iPhone is tantamount to “please lock me away.” There are still a few of us who are able to “stay in a world without … an iPhone.” Yours truly, being one that gets along fine with a flip-phone. Laugh, if you must, unless you live in Massachusetts.

From Daybreak Insider:

“The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) is facing a class-action lawsuit for allegedly using Google technology to covertly install tracking apps on over one million Android phones as part of the state government’s efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19 through contact tracing. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), a nonpartisan civil rights firm, accused the Bay State’s health department of “brazen disregard for civil liberties” by installing “spyware that deliberately tracks and records movement and personal contacts onto over a million mobile devices without their owners’ permission and awareness.” The class-action suit claims DPH is in violation of both the Massachusetts and U.S. Constitutions. New Civil Liberties Alliance: No law or regulation authorizes DPH to secretly install any type of software onto the Android devices of Massachusetts residents. NCLA is unaware at this time of other states that engaged in a similar surreptitious strategy of auto-installing contact-tracing apps.”

Hmmm, so apparently apps were installed on fancy phones … but not flip-phones! If you think that Massachusetts is the only state that installed similar apps, you might be be in the market to buy a bridge.

BTW: “A World Without Love” was written by Paul McCartney, and not the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

11;23/22

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