---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <pab2n6$qjd$1@dont-email.me> Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2018 14:29:57 -0400 From: Arnie Goetchius <arnie.goetchius@invalid.domain> Subject: Re: History--Bell "Dew Line" defense network HAncock4 wrote: > In the 1950s, AT&T (Bell System) contributed toward building a > network of radar stations in the far north. > > LIFE magazine had various ads and articles about it: > > Western Electric advertisements, 1955, 1957: > https://books.google.com/books?id=71YEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA11&dq=life%20dew%20bell&pg=PA11#v=onepage&q&f=false > > https://books.google.com/books?id=PT8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA73&dq=life%20dew%20bell&pg=PA73#v=onepage&q&f=false > > > 1956 article > https://books.google.com/books?id=R08EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA133&dq=life%20%22dew%20line%22&pg=PA133#v=onepage&q&f=false > > 1963 article > https://books.google.com/books?id=Ik8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA18&dq=life%20%22dew%20line%22&pg=PA18#v=onepage&q&f=false Many thanks for posting the links. My dad was with WECO and heavily involved with the DEW line and BMEWS. It was good training for him because he eventually became the WECO Project Manager for building the Mercury Communications Network. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <192D0741-80C7-44F4-8664-394E0595F963@roscom.com> Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2018 23:21:54 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Facebook sent a doctor on a secret mission to ask hospitals to share patient data Facebook sent a doctor on a secret mission to ask hospitals to share patient data * Facebook was in talks with top hospitals and other medical groups as recently as last month about a proposal to share data about the social networks of their most vulnerable patients. * The idea was to build profiles of people that included their medical conditions, information that health systems have, as well as social and economic factors gleaned from Facebook. * Facebook said the project is on hiatus so it can focus on "other important work, including doing a better job of protecting people's data." https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/05/facebook-building-8-explored-data-sharing-agreement-with-hospitals.html ------------------------------ Message-ID: <4C25478B-C7F9-4AA6-A085-3A3E321A5FEC@roscom.com> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 11:29:30 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: TCPA Suit Prescription Reminder Calls Dismissed Under "Emergency Purposes" Exception TCPA Suit Prescription Reminder Calls Dismissed Under "Emergency Purposes" Exception Last week, the Northern District of Ohio dismissed a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) case filed against CVS Health Corp., Lindenbaum v. CVS Health Corporation. The plaintiff sued CVS for placing at least six prerecorded prescription reminder calls to her cell phone, for which she allegedly had not provided prior express consent. She asserted that the calls were likely meant for the previous subscriber of the cell phone number, which had recently been reassigned to her. https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/tcpa-suit-prescription-reminder-calls-10988/ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <CF626704-F640-4AF2-99FD-14F16F301F15@roscom.com> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 16:08:58 -0400 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> Subject: "Did We Create This Monster?" How Twitter Turned Toxic "Ded we create this Monster?" How Twitter Turned Toxic For years, the company's zeal for free speech blinded it to safety concerns. Now it's scrambling to make up for lost time. BY AUSTIN CARR AND HARRY MCCRACKEN Yair Rosenberg wanted to troll the trolls. Rosenberg, a senior writer for Jewish-focused news-and-culture website Tablet Magazine, had become a leading target of anti-Semitic Twitter users during his reporting on the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. Despite being pelted with slurs, he wasn't overly fixated on the Nazis who had embraced the service. "For the most part I found them rather laughable and easily ignored," he says. https://www.fastcompany.com/40547818/did-we-create-this-monster-how-twitter-turned-toxic ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Tue, 10 Apr 2018