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I too thought of Psychohistory when I heard this bogus term "psychographics." Considering Asimov's bona fide scientific credentials and his mastery of story telling, I'd buy his version of future history over this pseudo-scientific nonsense any time. Could it be that when Cambridge Analytica was fishing about for a name to impress, someone made the connection with "Encyclopedia Galactica?" Call on Dors Venabili for an opinion.

Yet another fake crisis to be used by politicians to increase their power. People put things on Facebook so that others can view it, there should be no complaint when it is viewed.

I never use the "real" answer to security questions on bank websites. In response to "what street did you grow up on?" I might use "Benny Goodman" as the answer.

Even before the inter-web existed, my mother had several different maiden names. Mother maiden name was a common question with banks even back in the 1960s. I never gave the same answer to more than one bank.

Today, password managers (like RoboForm) make it very easy to always give nonsense answers to questions.

Not just your personal data actually posted is sold, but Facebook plunders your browser history to enable FB to sell targeted advertising. You can avoid this - use a separate browser, like Vivaldi, solely for FB.

It is time for everyone to re-evaluate their participation in Facebook and Google. I, personally, have resisted signing up for Facebook altogether - and now feel vindicated by my caution.

As for Google - I have limited by activities to YouTube (for their excellent selection of classical music) and Google Voice (for inexpensive overseas calling from my cell phone). For either of these services, I recommend providing the absolute minimum "profile" information.

Despite Bob's enthusiastic endorsement of G-Mail, I have avoided it like the "plague"! I greatly prefer using a good email client through your ISP and to configure it to remove both incoming and outgoing mail from their server immediately after processing.

Your email can still be accessed this way on the Web when away from home base - but your privacy will not be unduly compromised. For even greater privacy - an encrypted email service can be utilized when absolutely required. We are deep into the era of "big brother" and need to take measures to protect our privacy and financial security!

Yes there is at least one Asimov fan amongst your readers and the Foundation Trilogy was great.Have enjoyed your newsletters for some time now and always get something from them.