Asian American Teens Say They Lie To Doctors About Sex

Asian American Teens Say They Lie To Doctors About Sex:

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Teenagers often are not comfortable talking about their sex lives with a doctor, but Asian American teens might have an especially tough time, a study finds.

They are particularly uncomfortable talking with Asian American or Asian healthcare providers, and say they would lie to them about sex because they think the provider would breach confidentiality and tell their parents.

“If my mom was even outside this door right now, I would not be saying anything about my sexual activities,” an 18-year-old woman told the researchers. “I would just be lying.”

Children really need more rights in this country.

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techcrunch: If everything goes according to plan, Huntsville,...

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If everything goes according to plan, Huntsville, Alabama will become the 10th city to offer Google Fiber service. Fiber is currently available in Kansas City; Provo; Austin, Texas; and Atlanta, Ga., but Google has already announced it plans to bring it to five more cities, including Nashville, Tenn.

Read more here. 

Competition is great, but I would trust Google Fiber even less than I trust Comcast or other ISP’s with tracking and selling my data.

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iheartapple2: Apple CEO Tim Cook Speaks Exclusively With David...

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Apple CEO Tim Cook Speaks Exclusively With David Muir

This is hugely important.

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Oh dear. We should do it. StandWithApple #StandWithTim

Oh dear. We should do it.

StandWithApple #StandWithTim

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iheartapple2: Apple CEO Tim Cook explains Apple’s encryption...

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Apple CEO Tim Cook explains Apple’s encryption and privacy policies, in a discussion with WSJ’s Editor-in-Chief Gerard Baker at the Wall Street Journal’s technology conference in Laguna Beach, Calif., in October.

I agree 100% with Tim Cook. It’s great to see him stand for something he believes in so strongly and refuse to back down.

StandWithApple #StandWithTim

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iheartapple2: How to Encrypt Your Mac In light of recent data...

iheartapple2: Halt efforts that compel Apple and other device...

iheartapple2:

Halt efforts that compel Apple and other device makers to create a “backdoor” for the Government to access citizens data

Sign the petition here and let your voice be heard!

This probably won’t help anything, but it’s worth doing anyway because important.

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iheartapple2: The United States Government continues it’s...

"If you halt or weaken encryption, the people that you hurt are not the folks that want to do bad..."

“If you halt or weaken encryption, the people that you hurt are not the folks that want to do bad things. It’s the good people. The other people know where to go.””

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Tim Cook (via iheartapple2)

Apple is the only company left defending our privacy and security. Which is sad. Everyone should be fighting for our right to privacy.

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npr: Sure, our smartphones know a lot about who we are.If you...

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Sure, our smartphones know a lot about who we are.

If you have an Android smartphone, you may not know that Google saves all of the voice commands you give it. They’re archived online in your Google account.

Google says it keeps the audio search information to improve its voice recognition. Android users can opt out, which keeps your recordings anonymous. (Apple also stores voice commands collected by Siri users, though they’re not so obviously associated to users.)

You can find your audio commands — as well as other histories, like all of the YouTube videos you’ve searched for and watched — by visiting your Google history page. You can disable this storage feature by managing your activity.

Otherwise, you can look through and listen to your Google voice searches — all those times you said “OK Google” and asked for directions, set alarms, dictated texts and searched for answers to the many questions that pop in your head throughout the day.

OK Google: Where Do You Store Recordings Of My Commands?

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It’s disgusting how much of your data Google collects, saves, profiles, and sells to advertisers. Facebook does this too. And now snapchat is jumping on board.

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techcrunch: Facebook Messenger wants to BE your phone number...

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Facebook Messenger wants to BE your phone number with the new Message requests. 

Facebook Messenger is killing off the dysfunctional “Other Inbox.” It was where Facebook messages went to die if they were sent by someone who wasn’t your friend or friend-of-a-friend. Few people knew it existed. Fewer ever checked it. 

Now, any message from a non-friend who doesn’t have your phone number will go into your Message Requests at the top of Messenger on mobile or in the Messages tab on web. Essentially, Message Requests are like Friend Requests for chat.

Interesting. Kind of what Hangouts and Skype should be. Too bad it’s from Facebook.

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techcrunch: Google and ASUS have teamed up to build a new...

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Google and ASUS have teamed up to build a new version of the OnHub router. The new OnHub has a nifty new feature called “Wave Control,” which lets you speed up your Wi-Fi for a specific device by waving your hand over the top of it. Sounds like voodoo magic to us, but Google seems to think it works, so we’ll go with that. 

Read more here. 

This router is a great idea if you want to ensure that Google can see literally everything you do on the Internet.

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Hands-on with Facebook M: the virtual assistant with a (real) human touch

Hands-on with Facebook M: the virtual assistant with a (real) human touch:

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I love this. This is the future of personal assistants.

The question for me is whether this can be done without data mining (preserving privacy). Because, let’s not kid ourselves, Facebook is using this service to learn more about you so they can sell more relevant ads. That’s their core business; everything is always going to tie back to that.

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npr: Apple has long touted the power and design of its devices,...

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Apple has long touted the power and design of its devices, but recently the world’s most valuable company has been emphasizing another feature: privacy. That’s no small matter when many users store important private data on those devices: account numbers, personal messages, photos.

Apple CEO Tim Cook talks to NPR’s Robert Siegel about how the company protects its customers’ data, and how it uses — or doesn’t use — that information.

On Apple’s recent emphasis on customer privacy

We do think that people want us to help them keep their lives private. We see that privacy is a fundamental human right that people have. We are going to do everything that we can to help maintain that trust. …

Our view on this comes from a values point of view, not from a commercial interest point of view. Our values are that we do think that people have a right to privacy. And that our customers are not our products. We don’t collect a lot of your data and understand every detail about your life. That’s just not the business that we are in.

Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘Privacy Is A Fundamental Human Right’

Photo: Ariel Zambelich/NPR

At least there’s one company out there who still cares about privacy. That company is Apple.

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"There’s another attack on our civil liberties that we see heating up every day — it’s the battle..."

“There’s another attack on our civil liberties that we see heating up every day — it’s the battle over encryption. We think this is incredibly dangerous. If you put a key under the mat for the cops, a burglar can find it, too. [If they] know there’s a key hidden somewhere, they won’t stop until they find it.”

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Tim Cook, arguing against government and law enforcement pressure for encryption backdoors.  (via parislemon)

Privacy is important, and we need to fight for it.

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Rejoice: Google Just Created a Stupidly Simple Wi-Fi Router

Rejoice: Google Just Created a Stupidly Simple Wi-Fi Router:

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Wait, what? A router able to share data with Google, made by Google? Who on earth would want that, beside Google?

Yeah, so actually, this is a terrible idea. Please don’t buy this router.

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