Broken Chord Communications

11/12/2019

An innocent goof, or something more unsettling?

A handful of folks recently spotted an unwelcome addition to the Facebook app for iPhone. Some stray swipes on the News Feed would inexplicably reveal the viewfinder for the phone’s rear camera. It’s unclear if the camera was recording, but there it was lurking in the background of an app that.....

08/22/2019

Still true.

Every time you spam a fellow chamber member, a kitten dies.

01/16/2019

🤔

Opinion: The 2009 vs. 2019 profile picture trend may or may not have been a data collection ruse to train its facial recognition algorithm. But we can't afford to blithely play along.

07/27/2018

Oh, you know. Just another internet horror story. 😱

Monika Glennon has lived in Huntsville, Alabama, for the last 12 years. Other than a strong Polish accent, she fits a certain stereotype of the All-American life. She’s blonde. Her husband is a veteran Marine. Her two children, a boy and a girl, joined the military as adults. She sells houses—sh...

07/22/2018

06/18/2018

Have you rebooted your router yet?

04/01/2018

Open Google Maps today for a fun April Fools’ “Easter egg!”

03/08/2018

No, they’re not listening in. It’s much more complicated than that.

Facebook is now so good at watching what we do online—and even offline, wandering around the physical world—it doesn’t need to hear us to know what we like. Here are some ways to limit the amount of data Facebook and advertisers are collecting about you.

02/13/2018

01/23/2018

“They’re doing their very best to ensure not that our wellbeing is preserved, but also that we spend as much time on their products and on their programs and apps as possible. That’s their key goal: it’s not to make a product that people enjoy and therefore becomes profitable, but rather to make a product that people can’t stop using and therefore becomes profitable.”

Developers of platforms such as Facebook have admitted that they were designed to be addictive. Should we be following the executives’ example and going cold turkey – and is it even possible for mere mortals?

01/08/2018

Live tweeting events like the Golden Globes isn’t foolproof, even for pros. 🤷🏻‍♀️

NBC's Twitter account tweeted a gif of Oprah with the caption, "Nothing but respect for OUR future president"

12/20/2017

“If you know a high school student, or you are a high school student, and you haven’t reckoned with how that little device in your hand can wreck your life inside of a minute…it’s time to recognize just how dangerous social media can be.”

A high school student's bad decision on Snapchat has altered his, his family's, and his victim's life.