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lately, I'm getting upset with the word "guard"
why is a "u" in there - there's no "u" sound
I don't know any other word that puts a "u" in there and the sound of the word is like "guard"

it's just not right - and it never should have been spelled that way - it's a terrible, terrible thing

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lately, I'm getting upset with the word "guard"
why is a "u" in there - there's no "u" sound
I don't know any other word that puts a "u" in there and the sound of the word is like "guard"

it's just not right - and it never should have been spelled that way - it's a terrible, terrible thing

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Welcome back BBB. I mean this sincerely…. the forum misses you! Hope you are back as an active poster/moderator.

There is a new eclipse thread that I think of you every time I access it! It was a great WoV get together….

Yacht is a word that sounds like it should have a u in it but doesn't. Like ought. Welcome back BBB. We have missed you

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Welcome back BBB. I mean this sincerely…. the forum misses you! Hope you are back as an active poster/moderator.
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I second that!

Name still in green too!

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There are many tech/devise savvy members here on the forum. With all the noise and investigations ongoing about Tik Toc, specifically about capturing and compromising personal data, I wonder how many of those afore-mentioned members have downloaded such on their personal devises. For those who have, what remedies, if any, are available to relieve personal data theft?

I personally do not engage in any social media with the one exception of this forum, i.e., no facebook, twitter, etc. Would it be prudent to divorce your devises from tic toc and abandon it forever??

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I personally don't care if anyone tracks my internet habits but have also never used TikTok.
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It's not "internet habits" but all personal info such as banking, spending, medical, friends, family, leisure, politics, any info available through your devises. Basically every keystroke you produce can be accessed.

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Two New Bills on TikTok and Beyond: The DATA Act and RESTRICT Act - Lawfare https://www.lawfareblog.com/two-new-bills-tiktok-and-beyond-data-act-and-restrict-act

I'm sure certain tweeters are having a horror-fit about these new proposals.

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There are many tech/devise savvy members here on the forum. With all the noise and investigations ongoing about Tik Toc, specifically about capturing and compromising personal data, I wonder how many of those afore-mentioned members have downloaded such on their personal devises. For those who have, what remedies, if any, are available to relieve personal data theft?

I personally do not engage in any social media with the one exception of this forum, i.e., no facebook, twitter, etc. Would it be prudent to divorce your devises from tic toc and abandon it forever??

tuttigym
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I personally don't care if anyone tracks my internet habits but have also never used TikTok.
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It's not "internet habits" but all personal info such as banking, spending, medical, friends, family, leisure, politics, any info available through your devises. Basically every keystroke you produce can be accessed.

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From this article in Wired it makes it sound like they are just tracking TikTok interactions and not things outside of the app. I have never used TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, etc. Yesterday my iphone told me that I have 11 minutes per day of usage. I would guess 95% of that is just texting people.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tiktok-data-privacy

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There are many tech/devise savvy members here on the forum. With all the noise and investigations ongoing about Tik Toc, specifically about capturing and compromising personal data, I wonder how many of those afore-mentioned members have downloaded such on their personal devises. For those who have, what remedies, if any, are available to relieve personal data theft?

I personally do not engage in any social media with the one exception of this forum, i.e., no facebook, twitter, etc. Would it be prudent to divorce your devises from tic toc and abandon it forever??

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How paranoid do you want to be?
Is it enough?

I assume that my carrier and Apple or Google^* know everything that is on the phone, or is said near the phone, and what might be coming out of any nearby TV or radio.

If there is an Alexa or Facebook device nearby, then Amazon or Facebook^*, too.

Samsung TV or phone or tablet... Samsung.


You gotta trust someone, or forego networked technology.


^*: Alphabet/Meta, if you prefer.

I'm unsure if I mentioned this here or on another forum, but I think it bears repeating.
I keep an Alexa speaker in my rear window so I can listen to music while outside. so I'm having a discussion about sword and sorcery movies from our youth- Sons of Hercules, etc ,etc hen someone brings up a Jack Palance movie that fits the bill. None of us recall the movies name but two insist that Palances brother was also in it. That night, I'm laying in bed and turn on my Amazon firestick and the 1962 Jack Palance movie pops up on the lists of movies I might be interested in.