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Swinging the spotlight, for a moment, from politics to big tech. I upgraded my mother-in-law's internet service recently. As part of that upgrade, I installed a new wifi access point with better security. That meant changing the network name, which of course meant all the stuff in the house that

It means throwing away a still-working internet camera and figuring out who makes one that is less intrusive, but I'd rather do that than bow in the direction of Mountain View. But Google wanted total access to feed its machine learning models with more training data, for better ad targeting and for other purposes. I acknowledge, by the way, that I use Google services to run my vanity domain, including my web site and mail server.

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