Your MesaZona blogger gets a kick from finding an author like Cyrus Farivar who can write open-ended material like this article that appeared in ArsTechnica yesterday:
Facebook: We’re not asking for financial data, we’re just partnering with banks
Spox: "We're not using this information beyond enabling these types of experiences."
Cyrus is a Senior Tech Policy Reporter at Ars Technica, and is also a radio producer and author. His latest book, Habeas Data, about the legal cases over the last 50 years that have had an outsized impact on surveillance and privacy law in America, is out now from Melville House. He is based in Oakland, California.
There are other open-ended opportunities to see how partnering might work is some recent examples
________________________________________________________________________________This might be good hyper-local example of "Partnering" or public private partnerships. This one is Mesa Mayor John Giles with the ASU mascot Sparky. It was a public relations gimmick that flopped big time when taxpayers realized the trick and rejected the questionable agreement - In essence, we’re talking about the potential of privatizing profits for real estate spectaors and socializing losses whenever the government enters into such agreements — to the detriment of we the taxpayers.
Huge office campus planned for Mesa's Riverview District .... jobs for our residents," said Mesa Mayor John Giles in a statement. Union is also near Waypoint, a 426,000-square-foot office park Lincoln and Harvard partnered to ...
