60 More Satellites Added To Starlink Constellation

Blast-off and Return

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches for a record ninth time bringing 60 more Starlink satellites into orbit

Starlink’s satellites are meant to provide internet service on Earth

By Kim Lyons Mar 14, 2021, 12:58pm EDT

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the latest batch of 60 Starlink satellites into orbit Sunday, and returned to Earth successfully, landing on its Of Course I Still Love You drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean, the company announced.

Sunday’s mission marked a record ninth flight and landing for this Falcon 9 booster, SpaceX said, which was part of five earlier Starlink launches and the DM-1 mission for its Crew Dragon capsule.

Deployment of 60 Starlink satellites confirmed pic.twitter.com/AMLK4R9dMn

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 14, 2021

The satellites are part of growing Starlink constellation, which SpaceX is building to provide internet connectivity to rural areas on Earth. The company has permission to launch 12,000 satellites as part of the project, and has more than 1,000 in orbit so far.

Starlink also has some 10,000 users in the beta program it launched last year. The Starlink kit, which comes with a router and antenna, costs $499, with a monthly subscription of $99 for internet speeds between 70 and 130 Mbps. The company opened pre-orders for Starlink in the US, Canada, and UK last month, with a $99 deposit fee.

Sunday’s launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center was the second in the past few days for SpaceX, which sent another of its Falcon 9 rockets skyward from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday. That launch also brought 60 satellites into orbit.

The next tentative launch is March 21st from Cape Canaveral

"Incognito" or Not? Browsing in Private / Data Protection Tracking

You thought you were e.g..well HELLO! Wake up

From The Medium 06.06.2020

Google Sued for $5 Billion For Tracking Users Even in Incognito Mode | GarimaShares

Garima Bhaskar

Medium

In a recent reveal, it was found out that Google Chrome’s incognito mode isn’t incognito in any way.

What is an incognito mode?

In Google Chrome’s incognito mode, any searches you make don’t show up in your history. But, sigh, Google still stores them.

It prevents websites from tracking you using cookies. Your browsing history doesn’t get stored and local data of the session is removed. . .

 

Class-action lawsuit filed against Google on June 2

Google used tracking tools like Google Analytics, Google Ad Manager, including smartphone apps-to collect user data.

“Google tracks and collects consumer browsing history and other web activity data no matter what safeguards consumers undertake to protect their data privacy,” states the complaint.

The tech giant learns about hobbies, shopping habits, and the private searches that users make on the incognito browser.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of three people-Chasom Brown and Maria Nguyen, and William Byatt-in California, and while Google has faced several other lawsuits over its data collection, this one tries to use the Federal Wiretap Act.

The Act states that users have the right to sue if their private conversations are intercepted.

The lawsuit says that Google’s practices deceived consumers into believing that they maintain control of the information shared with the company.

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More from The Verge on Saturday 03.13.2021

Judge rules Google has to face lawsuit that claims it tracks users even in Incognito mode

The plaintiffs allege Google collects personal data even if users put privacy controls in place

By Kim Lyons Mar 13, 2021, 3:40pm EST

"A judge in California ruled Friday that Google has to face a class action lawsuit that claims the search giant secretly collects data from users even when they’re using its private “Incognito” mode, Bloomberg reported.

Three users filed a complaint last June alleging Google has a “pervasive data tracking business,” and its tracking persists even if users take steps to protect their private information, such as using incognito mode in Chrome, or private browsing in Safari and other browsers.

The lawsuit seeks at least $5 billion.

Google had sought to have the case thrown out, but US District Judge Lucy Koh wrote in her ruling that the company “did not notify users that Google engages in the alleged data collection while the user is in private browsing mode.”

. . .Google spokesperson José Castañeda said in an email to The Verge on Saturday that the company disputes the lawsuit’s claims “and we will defend ourselves vigorously against them.” He added that Chrome’s Incognito mode gives users the choice to browse the internet without activity being saved to their browser or devices. “As we clearly state each time you open a new incognito tab, websites might be able to collect information about your browsing activity during your session.”

Google said earlier this year it is phasing out third-party tracking cookies, and says it doesn’t plan to replace the cookies with something that may be as invasive even though it will affect the company’s advertising business.

Update March 13th, 4:39PM ET: Adds statement from Google spokesperson

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City of Mesa COVID-19 Dashboard Deja Vu / Rear-View

Here we are three months into 2021 and one year into "The Pandemic Period" looking for light at the end of the end of the tunnel in the uncertain path ahead hoping to leave it all behind.

Looking back now, data provided from the City of Mesa was scarce in real-time except for some transmission cases by zip code. Not one Mesa City Council member could produce reliable numbers for cases - or "hot spots" - in their own districts that spiked at the start of 2021.

There's nothing like looking-back in the rearview mirror for a premature glimmer of light and postulating over the prevarication for what they did worke and patting-your-own-backs that Manager EditorTom Scanlon published in today's edition of The East Valley Tribune:

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Light glimmers in Mesa after dark year

• By Tom Scanlon, Tribune Managing Editor
• Mar 14, 2021
• 9 hrs ago

Charts on the city of Mesa’s coronavirus website show the virus spread in the city has dropped off sharply since January, reflecting trends in the county, state and country.said Evan Allred, Mesa’s chief data officer

“The data is sourced from AZDHS beginning April 15, 2020, when we started pulling their daily data by ZIP code,” . said Evan Allred, Mesa’s chief data officer       “Unfortunately, in the early days of the pandemic, AZDHS released confirmed case data by county. It wasn’t until April when they made it available by ZIP code.”

Mesa likely had its first cases in March 2020    [City of Mesa]. 

The Maricopa County Department of Health declined the Tribune's request to provide dates of the first COVID-19 cases and deaths in Mesa.

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"What might be remembered as “The Time of the Great Pandemic” or, simply “COVID Year” began in Mesa with a series of warnings and closures.

The pandemic officially hit Mesa a year ago March 17, when Mayor John Giles declared a state of emergency, shuttering libraries, museums and other indoor gathering places. . ."

“I think Mesa – like the rest of the country – is encouraged to see there is light at the end of the tunnel,”

 

Giles and many other officials explain the drop in one word: vaccinations.

TYPICAL DOUBLE-TALK FROM HIZZONER

> Looking back on Mesa’s response to COVID-19 over the past year, Giles feels all the actions were appropriate and not too restrictive – though possibly not restrictive enough.

> “I hope we didn’t under-act,” he said. “In hindsight, could we have done more? Possibly.”